Historical Events and Current Affairs on July 10

48: Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
988: The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
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 takes the throne of England.
1584: William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
1645: English Civil War: Battle of Langport.
1778: American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1789: Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.
1796: Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
1800: The British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.
1806: The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company
1821: The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1832: President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1850: Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.
1877: The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1890: Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1913: Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
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 state law against it.
1925: The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established.
1938: Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
1940: World War II: Battle of Britain - The German Luftwaffe begin to hit British convoys in the English Channel thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
1940: World War II: Vichy France government established.
1941: Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
1942: The diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and the Soviet Union were established.
1943: World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.
1947: Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.
1951: Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
1958: Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.
1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1967: Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1968: Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France
1973: National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.
1973: The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1976: One US and three UK mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1976: The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy.
1978: Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.
1978: World News Tonight premieres on ABC
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: South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.
1992: In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1997: London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an African Eve at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997: Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel 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
1999: United States women's national soccer team team wins the FIFA Women's World Cup in Pasadena,California at The Rose Bowl
2000: A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
2000: EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2002: At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.
2003: A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.
2005: Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2006: Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.

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