Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 10

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  Zhengde Emperor
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  Depiction of the Isshi incident
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  Death Valley
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  Telstar I satellite
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  William I of Orange
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  Battle of Britain Monument
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  Meher Baba
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  Jedwabne pogrom memorial
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  Martin Luther King Jr.
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  A6M Zero discovered on Akutan Island

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48 BC – Caesar's civil war: Julius Caesar barely avoided a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in the Battle of Dyrrhachium in Macedonia.	refimprove
1460 – War of the Roses: King Henry VI of England was captured by Yorkists at the Battle of Northampton.	refimprove section
1584 – William the Silent, the Prince of Orange, was assassinated at his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.	refimprove section
1796 – German mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.	date not cited
1800 – Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of India, founded Fort William College in Calcutta.	Article says this happened on 18 August
1940 – Second World War: The Battle of Britain, in which the Royal Air Force defended the UK from attacks by the German Luftwaffe, began.	Too much uncited
1962 – Telstar, the world's first active, direct relay communications satellite, was launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral.	refimprove section
1976 – An industrial accident in a chemical manufacturing plant near Milan, Italy, resulted in the highest known exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin in residential populations, which gave rise to numerous scientific studies and standardized industrial safety regulations.	unreferenced section
1985 – French intelligence agents bombed and sank the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior while docked in the port of Auckland to prevent her from interfering in a nuclear test in Moruroa.	refimprove section, lots of CN tags in one section
Ima Hogg |b|1882|	Date not cited
Camille Pissarro |b|1830|	Too much uncited
Nikola Tesla |b|1856|	[better source needed] x5, [citation needed] x4, [unreliable source?] x3
Dolphy |d|2012|	Too many {cn} tags and footnote-free paragraphs
Dorothy Olsen|b|1916|	Recent TFA

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• 645 – In a plot to eliminate the Japanese Soga clan, Prince Naka no Ōe assassinated Soga no Iruka (depicted), beginning the Isshi incident.
• 1519 – Zhu Chenhao declared Ming emperor Zhengde to be a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion.
• 1645 – English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the west of England.
• 1668 – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660): Henry Morgan with an English privateer force landed at Porto Bello (in modern-day Panama) in an attempt to capture the Spanish city.
• 1806 – Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company at Vellore Fort.
• 1913 – The air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), recognized by the World Meteorological Organization as the highest recorded on Earth.
• 1925 – Indian mystic and spiritual master Meher Baba began his silence until his death in 1969, only communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures.
• 1942 – A downed Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero was discovered on Akutan Island, Alaska; it was later rebuilt and flown to devise tactics against the aircraft during World War II.
• 1945 – Three African-American United States Marines who repeatedly raped local women in Katsuyama near Nago, Okinawa were killed by the residents and had their bodies hidden in a nearby cave for over 50 years.
• 1966 – Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured) led a rally in support of the Chicago Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil-rights campaigns in the northern United States.
• 1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the American oil magnate J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Rome.
• 1978 – Moktar Ould Daddah, the first president of Mauritania, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Mustafa Ould Salek.
• 1999 – The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports.
• 2006 – Typhoon Ewiniar made landfall in South Korea, causing damages across the country amounting to 2.06 trillion won (US$1.4 billion).
• 2011 – The last edition of the British tabloid News of the World was published, closing due to allegations that it hacked the voicemails of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, victims of the 7/7 attacks and relatives of deceased British soldiers.
• 2018 – The last members of a junior association football team and their coach were rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non, a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
• Born/died: | Hadrian |d|138| Ladislaus IV of Hungary |d|1290| Catherine Cornaro|d|1510| Joan Terès i Borrull |d|1603| Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey |b|1614| Eva Ekeblad |b|1724| Pong Tiku|d|1907| Ed Lowe |b|1920| Eunice Kennedy Shriver |b|1921| Bobo Brazil|b|1924| Calogero Vizzini |d|1954| Katherine Rundell |b|1987| Berthe Meijer |d|2012| Moo Deng |b|2024|

July 10: Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1372 – The Treaty of Tagilde was signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and representatives of John of Gaunt of England, marking the beginning of the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, which remains in effect today.
• 1553 – Lady Jane Grey (pictured) was proclaimed the successor to King Edward VI of England, beginning her disputed reign as the "Nine Days' Queen".
• 1921 – Irish War of Independence: One day after a truce was agreed between the Irish Republican Army and British forces, violence broke out between Catholics and Protestants in Belfast.
• 1941 – The Holocaust: Ethnic Poles murdered at least 340 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in German-occupied Poland.
• 2011 – The Russian river cruise liner Bulgaria was caught in a storm in Tatarstan on the Volga River and sank in several minutes, resulting in 122 deaths.