On This Day

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Historical Events on July 10


1832  President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US

1850  Millard Fillmore sworn in as President of US (replacing Taylor)

13th US President
Millard Fillmore

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, South Carolina (Morris Island) [->SEP 06]

1863  Battle of Jackson, Mississippi - captured by federals [->JUL 16]

1866  Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts

1890  Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)

1892  1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)

1908  H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269°C)

1911  105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record)

1913  Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (56.7 °C), officially world's highest recorded temperature

1919  US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate

28th US President
Woodrow Wilson

1923  2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle in Rostov, Russia

1923  All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy

1925  Jury selection takes place in US John T. Scopes evolution trial

1929  US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency

1933  1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY

1934  1st sitting US President to visit South America, FDR in Colombia

32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

1936  109°F (43°C) Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)

1936  110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record)

1936  111°F (44°C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)

1936  112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record)

1938  "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic

1938  Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours

Aviator and Businessman
Howard Hughes

1940  Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel

1941  Jedwabne Pogrom: massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne, Poland

1942  Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp

Leading Nazi and Reichsführer of the SS
Heinrich Himmler

1943  US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)

1944  German submarine U-821 sunk by RAF

1944  "Father of Medicare" Tommy Douglas becomes the 7th Premier of Saskatchewan

Father of Medicare
Tommy Douglas

1949  1st practical rectangular TV tube announced in Toledo, Ohio

1950  "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC (later CBS) TV (broadcast on radio from 1935)

1951  Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong

1962  Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia

Civil Rights Activist
Martin Luther King Jr.

1964  The Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night", their 3rd studio album

1965  Beatles' "VI" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks

1965  Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

1967  Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe" - single goes on to win 4 Grammys

1973  John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome by Italian gangsters wanting a ransom

1975  Gladys Knight and Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV

1978  World News Tonight premieres on ABC with Max Robinson the first black anchor on a network newscast in the US

1st African-American Network TV Anchor
Max Robinson

1979  Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion

1981  CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)

1985  Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke

1985  Playboy (and also Penthouse) publish nude pictures of Madonna

Pop Star
Madonna

1990  Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show

1991  Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation

Russian President
Boris Yeltsin

1997  RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads

2002  At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Kenneth, Lord Thomson

2005  Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage

2015  The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered it removed.

2018  The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding

2018  Original sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood by EH Shepard sells for £430,000 in London, record price for a book illustration