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10 July, 2005

Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.

10 July, 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.

10 July, 2002

At a Sothebys auction, Peter Paul Rubens painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Kenneth Thomson.

10 July, 2000

A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline. EADS, the worlds second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.

10 July, 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.

10 July, 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. Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.

10 July, 1992

In Miami, Florida, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

10 July, 1991

Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected President of Russia. South African cricket team readmitted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the end of Apartheid.

10 July, 1985

Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland, New Zealand Harbor by French DGSE agents.

10 July, 1978

World News Tonight premieres on ABC. Mauritania, President Moktar Ould Daddah is ousted in a bloodless coup.

10 July, 1976

The Seveso Disaster occurs in Italy. Four UK and US mercenaries executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.

10 July, 1973

The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on Bangladesh recognition.

10 July, 1968

Maurice Couve de Murville becomes Prime Minister of France

10 July, 1967

Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. New Zealand adopts decimal currency.

10 July, 1962

The US communications satellite Telstar was launched, bringing Europe the first live television from the US.

10 July, 1958

Britain's first parking meters were installed, in Mayfair, London.

10 July, 1951

Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin. Randy Turpin becomes the middleweight boxing champion after defeating Sugar Ray Robinson.

10 July, 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.

10 July, 1943

World War II: The launching of Operation Husky begins the Italian Campaign.

10 July, 1941

Jedwabne Pogrom was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.

10 July, 1940

World War II: Vichy France government established. 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).

10 July, 1938

Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.

10 July, 1925

The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), the official news agency of the Soviet Union , is established. Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration. 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.

10 July, 1913

Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States (as of 2003).

10 July, 1908

H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269C)

10 July, 1890

Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

10 July, 1877

The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

10 July, 1850

Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States.

10 July, 1832

President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

10 July, 1821

The United States takes possession of its newly-bought territory of Florida from Spain.

10 July, 1806

The Vellore Mutiny was the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company

10 July, 1800

British Indian Government established Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.

10 July, 1796

Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.

10 July, 1789

Alexander Mackenzie reaches Mackenzie River Delta.

10 July, 1778

American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

10 July, 1645

English Civil War: Battle of Langport.

10 July, 1584

William I of Orange was assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.

10 July, 1553

Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.

10 July, 1212

The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

10 July, 988

The City of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.

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