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On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 10:
1509 John Calvin Protestant religious reformer/theologian
1723 Sir William Blackstone England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries)
1792 George Mifflin Dallas (D) 11th VP (1845-49)
1818 John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1820 Andrew Porter, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1872
1821 Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 Lucius Eugene Polk, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1834 James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)
1835 Henryk Wieniawski Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)
1867 Finley Peter Dunne US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley)
1871 Marcel Proust France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)
1875 Mary McLeod Bethune SC, slave/educator (Bethune-Cookman College)
1879 Dr Harry Nicholls Holmes Penn, crystallized vitamin A
1882 Ima Hogg Texas art patron/founder of the Houston Symphony
1888 Graham McNamee sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl)
1888 Toyohiko Kagawa Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer
1915 Saul Bellow Quebec, novelist (Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet)
1917 Don Herbert Waconia Minn, Mr Wizard
1919 Rusty Gill St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)
1920 David Brinkley Wilmington NC, NBC News anchor (Huntley-Brinkley)
1920 Owen Chamberlain codiscovered antiproton (Nobel 1959)
1921 Jake LaMotta Bronx, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull)
1926 Fred Gwynne NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)
1927 David Dinkins (Mayor-D-NYC, 1989- )
1931 Julian May, US, sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat)
1931 Nick Adams Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-The Rebel)
1942 Pyotr I Klimuk cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30)
1943 Arthur Ashe tennis pro (1968 US Open)
1945 Ron Glass actor (Sgt Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place)
1946 Sue Lyon Davenport Iowa, actress (Lolita, Evel Knievel)
1947 Arlo Guthrie singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1954 Andre Dawson Miami Fla, outfielder (Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP)
1974 Jennifer Montica Curry, Muscatine Iowa, Miss America-Iowa (1996)
2003 Short Cut (ruler of all he surveys) enters the world. reputed to have invented the words "NO" & "MINE".
Strong men quake in fear at his approach, and women swoon.
"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."
Deaths which occurred on July 10:
0138 Publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (Hadrian's Wall in Britain) (117-138), dies
0518 Anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies
0983 Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies
1086 Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered
1103 Erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies
1535 Jacob Van Campen, Reconstruction bishop, beheaded
1559 Henry II, King of France (1547-59), dies
1584 Willem I "the Silent", [Willem of Orange], earl of Nassau, dies at 51
1692 Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung
1747 Persian ruler Nadir Shah assassinated at Fathabad in Persia.
1863 Clement Clarke Moore ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
1863 Paul Jones Semmes, US businessman/Confederate brig-general, dies at 48
1884 Paul Morphy US chess wizard, dies
1910 Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope, dies
1920 John A "Jacky" Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79
1927 Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State VP, assassinated
1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA
1945 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies ( 214 patents for rocket systems and components)
1979 Arthur Fiedler orch leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84
1987 John Hammond died at age 76. Discovered Billie Holiday,Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Robert Johnson, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan.
1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81
1991 Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer
2003 Lord Shawcross (101), Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg, dies
GWOT
Iraq
10-Jul-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Corporal Terry Holmes Ordóñez Fallujah (near) Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Staff Sergeant Trevor Spink Fallujah (near) Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Sergeant Krisna Nachampassak Fallujah (near) Non-hostile - vehicle accident
US Private 1st Class Christopher J. Reed Fallujah (near) Non-hostile - vehicle accident
Afghanistan
A Good Day
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On this day...
0552 Origin of Armenian calendar
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1460 Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in America founded (Salem, MA)
1645 Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists
1690 Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet
1747 Afghans rise in revolt under the leadership of Ahmad Shah Abdali and retakk Kandahar establish modern Afghanistan.
1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1797 1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Phila
1832 Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
1850 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
1861 Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia and says Union troops will not enter that state
1862 US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
1863 Battle of Charleston, SC (Morris Island)
1863 Battle of Jackson, MS - captured by federals
1866 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1886 Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state (1st with female suffrage)
1892 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1910 Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0
1913 134ø F, Greenland Ranch, Calif (US record) (more proof of global warming)
1914 Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles
1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft
1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established
1919 Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
1923 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)
1923 All non-fascist parties disolved in Italy
1925 Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
1925 USSR's official news agency TASS established
1926 Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #3300
1929 Pirates & Phillies each hit 9 HRs (1 in each inning)
1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1932 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd & continues to 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job
1933 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1934 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1934 Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in the All star game
1936 109ø F, Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
1936 111ø F, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
1938 Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours (only to end up back where he started)
1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
1941 In Jedwabne, Poland, some 1600 Jews were herded into a barn by the local villagers and burned to death
1942 General Carl Spaatz becomes the head of the US Air Force in Europe.
1942 Nazis order the sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp
1949 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh
1950 "Your Hit Parade" premiers on NBC (later CBS) TV
1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong (continue to this day)
1953 Pravda reports arrest of Beria [affiliate of imperialist]
1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1967 Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe"
1969 NL votes to split into 2 divisions
1972 Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1973 Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day)
1978 E F Helinand E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3484
1978 Military coup in Mauritania
1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
1981 CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
1982 Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
1983 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751
1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1985 French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
1993 Yobes Ondieki (Kenya) becomes the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes
1996 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress demands Syria and the Palestinians stop terrorists from attacking Israel
1997 RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
1997 Britain: thousands of rural people showed up at Hyde Park to defend the sport of fox and deer hunting.
1998 Catholic Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who said they had been molested by a priest.
2001 Kenneth Williams, an FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, sends a memorandum requesting a detailed examination of US flight schools for al Qaeda terrorists. Mid-level officials rejected the request
2001 In Jedwabne, Poland, Pres. Kwasniewski apologizes for a wartime massacre of Jews
2002 The first summit of the African Union ends. Promises a new era of economic development and good government on a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. (In other news the Easter buuny shows up and passes out Easter eggs to all delagates)
2003 Spain unveils the first mosque since 1492 when the Moors were expelled
2004 5 policemen were killed in northern Yemen. Security forces continue to attack terrorists
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Albania : Army Day
Bahamas : Independence Day (1973)
Wyoming : Statehood Day (1890)
South Africa : Family Day (Monday)
Swaziland : Reed Dance Day (Monday)
National Nude Weekend
National Ice Cream Day
National Step-Mothers Day
Teddy Bear Picnic Day
Cost of Government Day (approx date)
Hitch Hiking Month
Religious Observances
Buddhist-Burma : Beginning of Buddhist Fast
Christian : SS Rufina & Secunda, virgins & 7 Brothers
RC-Bilbao, Spain : Feast of Virgin of Bego¤a
Religious History
1509 Birth of John Calvin, French religious reformer. His 'Institutes of the ChristianReligion' became the most popular doctrinal statement of the Protestant Reformation.
1629 The first non-separatist Congregational church in America was established atSalem, Massachusetts.
1851 California Wesleyan College was chartered in Santa Clara, under sponsorship ofthe Methodist Church. In 1961 its name was changed to the University of the Pacific.
1925 The famous 'Scopes Monkey Trial' began in Dayton, TN, after high school biologyteacher John T. Scopes, 24, was charged with teaching evolution to his students.
1950 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'I am just trying to deliver familiar truth from the oblivion of general acceptance.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
The Continuing Crisis
In May, Canada Post notified Christine Charbonneau in Orleans, Ontario, that its letter carriers would probably stop delivering directly to her house because its steps were each 30 cm high (about 12 inches), and regulations require Canada Post to climb steps no more than 20 cm high. Charbonneau said no one else has complained about the steps in the 17 years she has been there, including her now-77-year-old mother-in-law (who takes oxygen through a tube in her nose). [Ottawa Citizen, 5-31-05]
Thought for the day :
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust