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“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.”
~ Nikola Tesla
Wikiquote (Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943) a Serbian - American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.)
July 10th, 48 BC
Roman Empire:
48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium; Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
138 - Roman Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
Wikipedia Photo: ● Ancient roman statue ● Detail of Head from Roman Statue of Antinous, credit Corbis ● Statue of Neptune, Trevi Fountain, Rome ● International Sand Sculpture Festival, FIESA 7 ancient Rome.
Relief from a 3rd-century sarcophagus depicting a battle between Romans and Germanic warriors; the central figure is perhaps the emperor Hostilian / Depiction of the Menorah on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
July 10th, 1212
The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
Wikipedia Painting: Great Fire of London in September 1666.
July 10th, 1460
Wars of the Roses:
1460 - Battle of Northampton: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner.
Wikipedia Image: Wars of the Roses; a series of dynastic wars fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York (whose heraldic symbols were the "red" and the "white" rose, respectively) for the throne of England
July 10th, 1553
1553 - Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
Wikipedia Painting: Henry VIII Coat of Arms and Seal of Henry VIII of England; Catherine of Aragon as a young widow, by court painter Michael Sittow, 1502; Anne Boleyn, Henry's second queen; a later copy of an original painted 1534; Jane Seymour, Henry's third wife; Anne of Cleves, Henry's forth wife by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1539; Catherine Howard, Henry's fifth wife, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1540; Catherine Parr, Henry's sixth and last wife.
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, by the French painter Paul Delaroche, 1833.
July 10th, 1645
English Civil War:
1645 - The Battle of Langport takes place.
Wikipedia Painting: English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers);
John Milton publishes Areopagitica;
Battle of Naseby, victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army;
Battle of Marston Moor, 1644;
"Cromwell at Dunbar", by Andrew Carrick Gow; Oliver Cromwell; King Charles I, painted by Van Dyck;
"And when did you last see your father?" by William Frederick Yeames.
July 10th, 1778
American Revolutionary War:
1778 - Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Wikipedia Paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutz; Battle of the Chesapeake, French (left) and British (right) lines; Battle of Bunker Hill, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 13, 1782, by John Singleton Copley; Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781; "The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder; Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by (John Trumbull, 1797).
Painting:Louis XVI of France (1754-1793) in his coronation robes.
July 10th, 1821
The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
Wikipedia Map Showing the Territory of Florida in the 1820s
July 10th, 1832
U.S. President, Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
Wikipedia Photo: The south façade of the Second Bank of the United States at 4th and Chestnut Streets in Independence National Historical Park.
July 10th, 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.
Wikipedia Painting: Millard Fillmore; Official White House portrait.
July 10th, 1890
Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
Wikipedia Photo: Grand Teton National Park; a United States National Park in northwestern Wyoming. (The park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile (64 km) long Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole) ● Panoramic view from Jackson Hole Valley ● Viewed from Jackson Hole valley looking west, the high peaks of the Teton Range rise more than 7,000 feet (2,135 m) above the valley floor ● The "Sleeping Indian" is a series of rock formations on Sheep Mountain in the Gros Ventre Range on the east side of Jackson Hole ● Oxbow Bend on the Snake River
July 10th, 1913
Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.
Wikipedia Photo: Death Valley National Park; Zabriskie Point ● Desert wildflowers near Stovepipe Wells after a late winter rain. ● Racetrack Playa ● Devil's Golf Course
July 10th, 1921
Belfast's Bloody Sunday: Belfast, Northern Ireland 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles.
Wikipedia Photo: Upper Mount Street , Dublin, on 'Bloody Sunday', November 21st, 1920
July 10th, 1925
Scopes Trial: 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 the Butler Act.
Wikipedia.org Photo: William Jennings Bryan ● Clarence Darrow was a trial attorney made famous for his defense of a Tennessee educator accused of breaking a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. Bettmann / Corbis ● University of Missouri-Kansas City Photo: Darrow and Bryan at the Scopes Trial 1925 ● Evangelist T.T. Martin's books against the theory of evolution are sold at an outdoor stand in Dayton, Tenn., 1925, scene of the Scopes trial. (AP Photo) ● John Thomas Scopes The teacher at the center of proceedings - Political cartoon - The Daily Star
July 10th, 1938
Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
Wikipedia Photo: Howard Hughes portrait; Howard Hughes (age 25) was still considered a minor in Texas by the time both of his parents had died; Legend holds that when all of the professional pilots refused to attempt a particular stunt for the 1930s film Hell’s Angels (a low altitude dive past a camera tower) Hughes stepped in and flew it himself; July 14, 1936 — Howard Hughes, wealthy sportsman and speed flyer, is shown here as he was booked on a suspicion of negligent homicide by Det. Lieut. Tom Sketchley (right), following a traffic accident in which Gabe S. Meyer, a pedestrian, was assertedly struck and killed by Hughes’ automobile (Hughes was released on his own recognizance); 1947, Long Beach, California, USA - Howard Hughes, designer and builder of the “Hercules”, world’s largest airplane; November 7, 1947, Washington, DC, USA — Smiling Howard Hughes chats with reporters as he arrived in Washington. credit The Selvedge Yard.
July 10th, 1940
World War II:
1940 - The Vichy government is established in France.
1940 - Battle of Britain; The German Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys in the English Channel (this start date is contested, though).
1942 - An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1944 - Battle of Tali-Ihantala; Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
Eastern Front (World War II); Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
July 10th, 1941
World War II: Holocaust;
1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom: the massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
Wikipedia Photo: World War II, The Holocaust. Sources: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum USHMM, History 1900s, Internet Masters of Education Technology IMET, Techno Friends, Veterans Today, Concern.
July 10th, 1962
Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
Wikipedia Photo: Telestar project at Bell Labs. The first two Telstar satellites were "Telstar 1", launched July 10, 1962 and operational until February 21, 1963.
July 10th, 1973
John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil magnate John Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome,Italy.
Getty Sr. agreed to pay a ransom, although he would only pay $2.2 million of the $17 million because that was the maximum amount that was tax deductible. He loaned the remainder to his son who was responsible for repaying the sum at 4% interest. The reluctant Getty Sr. negotiated a deal and got his grandson back for about $2.9 million. Getty III was found alive in southern Italy on 15 December 1973, shortly after the ransom was paid.
Wikipedia Photo: John Paul Getty / John Paul Getty III
July 10th, 1997
In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Wikipedia Image: DNA reveals Neanderthal extinction clues. A Neanderthal-female reconstruction based on both fossil anatomy and DNA, credit Joe McNally, National Geographic
July 10th, 2002
At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (U.S. $76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
Wikipedia Painting: Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents, 1611–12 (Art Gallery of Ontario) ● (Alte Pinakothek).
July 10th, 2005
2005 - Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage.
Wikipedia Image: Hurricane Andrew sequence, NASA ● Hurricane Mitch at peak intensity (formed October 22, 1998 - Dissipated November 5, 1998) ● Hurricane Katrina taken on August 28, 2005, at 11:45 AM EDT by NOAA when the storm was a Category Five hurricane ● Hurricane Jeanne September 23, 2004, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ● PDC Global Hazards Atlas displaying 3 hour precipitation accumulation, typhoon Evan (04P), with JTWC positions, segments, and winds...over the South Pacific Ocean ● Satellite imagery provided by NOAA and taken by the Japan Meteorological Agency's MTSAT weather satellite shows Typhoon Roke as it approaches Japan, September 20, 2011. Over 1.3 million ordered to evacuate in Japan ahead of Typhoon Roke.
July 10th, 2006
Aviation accidents and incidents:
2006 - Pakistan International Flight PK-688; crashes in Multan, Pakistan, shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.
Wikipedia Photo: ● Pan AM 747 ● U.S. Airways flight 1549 also known as the "Miracle on the Hudson" navigates an exit ramp near Burlington, New Jersey, June 5, 2011 ● Passengers stand on the wings of a U.S. Airways plane as a ferry pulls up to it after it landed in the Hudson River in New York, Reuters ● US Airways plane crashes into New York Hudson River, Photo: AP
July 10th, 2011
Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths..
Wikipedia Photo: Rescue of Bulgaria on 17 July 17, 2011
July 10th, 2017
Modern conflicts in the Middle East, social unrest and terrorist attacks:
2017 - Iraqi Civil War; Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Wikipedia Photo: Middle East satellite image, NASA. ● Camels are seen early morning on a beach in the Marina area of Dubai October 16, 2008. (Steve Crisp, Reuters) ● A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad burns during clashes between rebels and Syrian troops in Selehattin, near Aleppo, on July 23, 2012. (Bulent Kilic, AFP / GettyImages) ● Egyptians gather in their thousands in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the revolution on Jan. 25, 2012 in Cairo Egypt. Tens of thousands have gathered in the square on the first anniversary of the Arab uprising which toppled President Hosni Mubarak. (Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images) ● Black smoke rises above the Tehran skyline as supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi burn tires and other material in the streets as they fight running battles with police to protest the declared results of the Iranian presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. (Ben Curtis, AP) ● The Iron Dome defense system fires to interecpt incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (Tsafrir Abayov, AP)