TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: July 10
552 Origin of Armenian calendar
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in America founded (Salem, MA)
1679 The British crown claims New Hampshire as a royal colony.
1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1776 The statue of King George III is pulled down in New York City.
1778 In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declares war on England.
1821 U.S. troops took possession of Florida. The territory was sold by Spain.
1832 Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
1890 Wyoming became the 44th state in the United States.
1866 Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1893 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful open-heart surgery, without the benefit of penicillin or blood transfusion.
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 Death Valley, U.S experiences the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth. Measurements showed that the temperature had reached a whopping 134°F or 56.7°C!
1917 Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing the draft
1919 Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
1925 The trial of Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes opens, with Clarence Darrow appearing for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.
1940 The Battle of Britain began.
1947 Saab introduced the Model 92 prototype as its first automobile.
1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
1953 American forces withdraw from Pork Chop Hill in Korea after heavy fighting.
1960 Belgium sends troops to the Congo to protect whites as the Congolese Bloodbath begins, just 10 days after the former colony became independent of Belgian rule.
1962 The satellite Telstar is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, beaming live television from Europe to the United States.
1973 The Bahamas became independent from Great Britain.
1976 In Seveso, near Milan, Italy, an explosion in a chemical factory covers the surrounding area with toxic dioxin. Time magazine has ranked the Seveso incident No. 8 on its list of the 10 worst environmental disasters.
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.
1985 The Coca-Cola Company announced that it was bringing back the original Coke and calling it Coca-Cola Classic.
1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation
1991 U.S. President Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its “profound transformation” toward racial equality.
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.
2003 Spain opened its first mosque (in Granada) since the Moors were expelled in 1492.
2012 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
