Major Events
- 1940 Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel
- 1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.
- 1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation
- 2012 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
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Jul 10 in Film & TV
- 1950 "Your Hit Parade" premieres on NBC-TV (later CBS), after being broadcast on radio from 1935
Jul 10 in Music
- 2018 Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album "Scorpion"
Jul 10 in Sport
- 1971 100th British Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale: Lee Trevino wins the first of his consecutive Open Championships, a stroke ahead of Lu Liang-Huan of Taiwan
Did You Know?
Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
John Calvin
William Blackstone
Camille Pissarro
Nikola Tesla
Owen Chamberlain
Mahathir bin Mohamad
David Brinkley
Sofía Vergara
Arlo Guthrie
Jessica Simpson
Jake LaMotta
Arthur Ashe
Virginia Wade
Sunil Gavaskar
Andre Dawson
Fun Fact About July 10
World's official highest recorded temperature at Greenland Ranch (now known as Furnace Creek Ranch), Death Valley, California at 134 °F (56.7 °C)
Famous Weddings
- 1898 Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin marries fellow revolutionary Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya in Shushenskoye.
- 1919 Author Aldous Huxley (25) weds epidemiologist Maria Nys in Bellem, Belgium
- 1926 Future Cuban President and dictator Fulgencio Batista (25) weds Elisa Godínez y Gómez (25)
Famous Divorces
- 1975 American singer and actress Cher (28) files for divorce from musician Gregg Allman (27), 10 days after their marriage - they reconcile, but separate in 1977 and divorce in 1979
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Lady Godiva
Lady Godiva as painted in c. 1897 by John Collier
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Rainbow Warrior Destroyed
In what turned out to be an act of state terrorism, Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environment campaigners, was destroyed by two bombs on this day.
July 10, 1985
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
The Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland harbour
July 10, 1985
