Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of 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)
1835 Henryk Wieniawski Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)
1856 Nikola Tesla physicist, developed alternating current
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 Giorgio De Chirico Greece, Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer)
1888 Graham McNamee sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl)
1888 Toyohiko Kagawa Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer
1895 Carl Orff Mnchen (Munich) Germany, composer (Antigonae)
1897 Lloyd Goodrich American Arts Museum director
19-- Dennis Allen KC Mo, comedian (Leslie Uggams Show, Laugh-in)
19-- Michael Woods Detroit Mich, actor (Our Family Honor)
19-- Sheila Anderson NYC, actress (Cecily Pigeon-New Odd Couple)
1913 Ljuba Welitsch Borisovo, Bulgaria, soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci)
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)
1921 Jeff Donnell South Windham Maine, actor (Gidget Goes to Rome)
1922 Herb McKenley Jamacia, 4 X 400m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 Dorothea Hochletiner Austria, giant slalom (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 Carleton Carpenter Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock)
1926 Fred Gwynne NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)
1927 David Dinkins (Mayor-D-NYC, 1989- )
1927 William Smithers Richmond Va, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!)
1931 Alice Munro author (Dance of the Happy Shades)
1931 Del Insko harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader)
1931 Nick Adams Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-The Rebel)
1933 Chuan-Kwang Yang Taiwan, decathlete (Olympic-silver-1960)
1933 Jerry Herman Broadway composer (Hello Dolly)
1937 Sandy Stewart Phila Pa, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President)
1939 Lawrence Pressman Ky, actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle)
1940 Mills Watson Oakland Calif, actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear)
1941 Ian Whitcomb England, rocker (You Turn Me On)
1941 Robert Pine Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs)
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)
1945 Virginia Wade tennis star (Wimbeldon 1977)
1946 Sue Lyon Davenport Iowa, actress (Lolita, Evel Knievel)
1947 Arlo Guthrie singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1949 Mark Shera Bayonne NJ, actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones)
1949 Ronnie James rocker (Dio-Holy Diver)
1954 Andre Dawson Miami Fla, outfielder (Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP)
1954 Neil Francis Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices)
1972 Damon Sharpe Cleveland Ohio, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
Deaths which occurred on July 10:
1692 Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung
1863 Clement Clarke Moore ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
1884 Paul Morphy US chess wizard, dies
1910 Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope, dies
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
1977 Norman Paris orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
1979 Arthur Fiedler orch leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84
1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81
1991 Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
552 Origin of Armenian calendar
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in America founded (Salem, MA)
1690 Battle of Beachy Head-French fleet defeats Anglo-Dutch fleet
1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1832 Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
1847 Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune
meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel
1850 VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
1866 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1875 L Schulhof discovers asteroid #147 Protogeneia
1886 Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white
calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state
1892 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1910 Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0
1913 134 F (57 C), Greenland Ranch, Calif (US record)
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 In game between Pirates & Phillies 9 HRs hit 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 AL beats NL 9-7 in 2nd All Star Game (Polo Grounds NY)
1934 Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in the All star game
1936 109 F (43 C), Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record)
1936 111 F (44 C), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)
1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles
1936 Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game
1940 Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
1943 US & Britain invade Sicily in WW II
1947 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
1947 Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0
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
1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1609 Brenda
1951 NL beats AL 8-3 in 18th All Star Game (Briggs Stadium, Detroit)
1956 NL beats AL 7-3 in 23rd All Star Game (Griffith Stad, Washington)
1958 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 NL beats AL 3-1 in 32nd All Star Game (DC Stadium, Wash)
1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1965 Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1965 Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1966 Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created
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
1980 Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5 C temp
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
1990 AL beats NL 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
1990 AL beats NL 2-0 in 61st All Star Game (Wrigley Field Calif)
1990 Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show
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
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Religious Observances
Buddhist-Burma : Beginning of Buddhist Fast
Christian : SS Rufina & Secunda, virgins & 7 Brothers
RC-Bilbao, Spain : Feast of Virgin of Begoa
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 tryingto deliver familiar truth from the oblivion of general acceptance.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
Thought for the day :
" In fashion be a reed in the wind, In principles be a rock in the stream. "
