Today in History for 10th July 2015 Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 199 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia. 552 - Origin of Armenian calendar 988 - The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey. 1040 - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes 1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. 1460 - Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton 1520 - King Charles V France King Henry VIII of England sign treaty of Calais 1568 - Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish 1584 - Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium 1598 - Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande 1609 - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League 1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle [NS=June 20] 1629 - 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, MA) King of England Henry VIII 1645 - Battle at Langport, Somerset: Cromwell's New Model Army beats Royalists 1652 - England declares war on Netherlands 1690 - Battle of Beachy Head - French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen 1739 - King George II authorised the Admiralty Board to seek maritime reprisals against Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear) 1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye 1762 - Roubiliac's monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey London 1775 - Horatio Gates issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army 1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers. Mathematician, Astronomer, and Physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss 1800 - The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent. 1806 - The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company. 1832 - President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US 1847 - Urbain J J Leverrier John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune, meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel 1850 - Millard Fillmore sworn in as president of US (replacing Taylor) 1861 - Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia says Union troops will not enter that state 1862 - US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad 1863 - Battle of Charleston, SC (Morris Island) [-SEP 06] 1863 - Battle of Jackson, MS - captured by federals [-JUL 16] US1000 CS1339 1866 - Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass 1873 - French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol Poet Arthur Rimbaud 1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain. 1884 - 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out 1886 - George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company 1886 - Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand) 1890 - Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage) 1892 - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio) 1898 - Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo 1905 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court 1908 - H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269°C) 1910 - Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0 1911 - 105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record) 1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6) 1913 - 134°F (57°C), Greenland Ranch, California (US record) 1913 - Romania declares war on Bulgaria 1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States. Baseball Legend Babe Ruth 1914 - Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles 1915 - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa 1917 - Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft 1918 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms 1919 - Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate 1920 - Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary 1922 - 42nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Gerald Patterson beats R Lycett (6-3 6-4 6-2) 1923 - 2-pound hailstones kill 23 many cattle (Rostov, Russia) 1923 - All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy 1924 - Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim 28th US President Woodrow Wilson 1924 - Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam 1925 - Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial 1925 - USSR's official news agency TASS forms 1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration. 1926 - 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio 1926 - Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage 1928 - Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout 1929 - In game between Pirates Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning 1929 - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency 1932 - Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job 1933 - 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY 1934 - 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia 32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1934 - 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York 1934 - Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig Foxx in All star game 1936 - 109°F (43°C) Cumberland Frederick, Maryland (state record) 1936 - 110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record) 1936 - 111°F (44°C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record) 1936 - 112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record) 1936 - New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles 1936 - Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game 1937 - Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club" 1938 - "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic 1938 - Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours 1940 - Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attacked shipping convoys in English Channel 1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland. 1942 - Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp 1942 - Netherland's government in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union 1943 - 6th day of battle at Kursk 1943 - US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky) 1944 - U-821 sinks Father of Medicare Tommy Douglas 1944 - "Father of Medicare" Tommy Douglas becomes the 7th Premier of Saskatchewan 1945 - Adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff 1946 - Belgian government of Acker resigns 1947 - 200 die when train derailed fell into a river in Canton, China 1947 - Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0 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. 1948 - "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances 1948 - "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances 1948 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs 1948 - Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army 1949 - 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Ohio Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 240 1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471) 1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488) 1509 - John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian 1517 - Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop 1526 - Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien 1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660) 1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686) 1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703) 1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (carpet cartons) 1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711) 1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719) 1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716) 1697 - Francois Hanot, composer 1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783) Jurist William Blackstone (1723) 1723 - William Blackstone, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries), born in London, England 1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807) 1759 - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer 1778 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master 1779 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer 1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49) 1797 - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull) 1804 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1879) 1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889) 1818 - John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) 1820 - Andrew Porter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1872) 1821 - Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers) 1824 - Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician 1826 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer Painter Camille Pissarro (1830) 1830 - Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean/French painter (Impressionism) 1832 -