July 10 Historical Events
The following events took place on July 10. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 61 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- 1942Diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union are established.
- 1942World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the “Akutan Zero”) that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft’s flight characteristics.
- 1946Hungarian hyperinflation sets a record with inflation of 348.46 percent per day, or prices doubling every eleven hours.
- 1947Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
- 1951Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- 1962Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
- 1966The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
- 1967Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1967New Zealand adopts decimal currency.
- 1973The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1973National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
- 1973John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
- 1976The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy.
- 1976One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
- 1978ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
- 1978President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 1980Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time.
- 1985The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
- 1991The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
- 1991Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
- 1992In Miami, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
- 1997In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the “out of Africa theory” of human evolution placing an “African Eve” at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- 1997Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
- 1998Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
- 2000EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- 2002At a Sotheby‘s auction, Peter Paul Rubens’painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
- 2005Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
- 2007Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
- 2008Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.
- 2011Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths.
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