1900 – ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
48 BC – Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
0518 – Former peasant Justin I proclaimed Byzantine emperor in the Hippodrome, Constantinople
1031 – France’s Capetian king Robert the Pious dies July 10 at age 61 after a short war in which he has been defeated by his younger sons
1040 – Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king’s Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, proclaimed Queen of England, succeeds Edward VI, who proclaimed his half-sisters illegitimate. Reigns for nine days.
1584 – William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Grard
1609 – The Catholic states in Germany set up a league under the leadership of Maximillian of Bavaria.
1679 – The British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.
1692 – Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung
1775 – Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1776 – The statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City.
1778 – In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declared war on England.
1806 – The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company
1821 – U.S. troops took possession of Florida. The territory was sold by Spain.
1832 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1866 – Edison P. Clark patented his indelible pencil.
1890 – Wyoming became the 44th state to join the United States.
1900 – ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
1913 – The highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was 134 degrees in Death Valley, CA.
1917 – Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft
1919 – The Treaty of Versailles was hand delivered to the U.S. Senate by President Wilson.
1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “”Monkey Trial”” begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
1925 – The official news agency of the Soviet Union, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), was established.
1926 – Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1928 – George Eastman first demonstrated color motion pictures.
1929 – The U.S. government began issuing paper money in the small size.
1934 – USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on first visit of U.S. President to South America.
1938 – Howard Hughes completed a 91 hour flight around the world.
1940 – The 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.
1941 – Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1947 – Saab introduced the Model 92 prototype as its first automobile.
1949 – The first practical rectangular television was presented. The picture tube measured 12 by 16 and sold for $12.
1951 – Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict began at Kaesong.
1953 – American forces withdraw from Pork Chop Hill in Korea after heavy fighting.
1962 – The Telstar Communications satellite was launched. The satellite relayed TV and telephone signals between Europe and the U.S.
1969 – The National League was divided up into two baseball divisions.
1972 – Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India”
1973 – Britain granted the Bahamas their independence after three centuries of British colonial rule.
1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome by Italian gangsters wanting a ransom
1976 – One US and three UK mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1980 – Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
1981 – CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
1984 – Dwight ‘Doc’ Gooden, of the New York Mets, became the youngest player to appear in an All-Star Game as a pitcher. He was 19 years, 7 months, and 24 days old.
1985 – Coca-Cola resumed selling the old formula of Coke, it was renamed “Coca-Cola Classic.” It was also announced that they would continue to sell “New” Coke.
1985 – Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
1991 – U.S. President Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its “profound transformation” toward racial equality.
1992 – In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997 – Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an “African Eve” 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997 – Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel ngel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos.
1998 – The World Bank approved a $700 million loan to Thailand.
1998 – The U.S. military delivered the remains of Air Force 1st Lt. Michael Blassie to his family in St. Louis. He had been placed in Arlington Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown in 1984. His identity had been confirmed with DNA tests.
1999 – The heads of six African nations that had troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a cease-fire agreement that would end the civil war in that nation.
2000 – A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline
2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a UN Tribunal accusing him of war crimes
2011 – British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.
2015 – In South Carolina, the Confederate flag was removed for the last time from the Capitol grounds and taken to a state military museum.
2015 – 23 people are killed & 50 are injured in a stampede at a free clothing drive in Mymensingh, Bangladesh
2017 – NASA’s Juno spacecraft makes closest ever pass over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot at 9,000 kilometers overhead
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
2019 – British ambassador to the US Sir Kim Darroch resigns after his secret cables calling the US president “inept” were published
2020 – Sixth century cathedral Hagia Sophia turned into a mosque by decree issued by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (converted to a mosque 1453-1934)
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
