Historical Events In July - 10

1980  Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen on July - 10.   

1980  Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5ø C temp on this day in history.   

1981  CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) on this day in history.   

1982  In Vancouver, BC, three $2 ticket bettors win $579,129 apiece at the races in Exhibition Park. (they call it the sport of kings?) on July - 10.   

1982  On July - 10 miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze   

1982  Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79 on July - 10.   

1983  On July - 10 e Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751   

1983  Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1985  Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke on this day in history.   

1985  On this day in history explosion sinks Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor   

1985  French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand on this day in history.   

1985  Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered on this day in history.   

1986  Israeli helicopters bomb Palestinian camps on this day in history.   

1987  On July - 10 john Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76   

1988  Errol John, playwright, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1989  On July - 10 mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81   

1989  Mel Blanc, cartoon voice (Warner Bros cartoons), dies at 81 on July - 10.   

1990  On July - 10 andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show   

1990  On this day in history hans Faverey, poet, dies   

1991  On this day in history gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer   

1991  Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48 on this day in history.   

1993  On this day in history masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95   

1994  Earl Strum, referee (NBA), dies of brain cancer at 66 on July - 10.   

1995  Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

1996  Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman, dies at 79 on July - 10.   

2005  Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm killing 10 people, after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean on this day in history.   

2005  On this day in history luxembourgish referendum on the European Constitution votes to accept.   

2007  2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in San Francisco (AL 5, NL 4) on this day in history.   

2007  A Cessna 310R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in Sanford, Florida, killing three adults and two children on this day in history.   

2007  Zheng Xiaoyu, head of State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China executed on July - 10.   

2011  British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal on this day in history.   

2012  The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages on July - 10.   

2013  40 people are buried in landslides in Sichuan Province, China on this day in history.   

2014  Yair Lapid warns of Israeli Defense Force ground operation if Gazan rocket fire do not stop on July - 10.   

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1419  On July - 10 birth of emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)   

1452  King James III of Scotland (d. 1488) was born on this day in history.   

1509  John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian was born on July - 10.   

1517  On July - 10 birth of odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop   

1526  On this day in history birth of philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien   

1592  On this day in history birth of pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)   

1614  On July - 10 birth of arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)   

1625  On July - 10 birth of jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)   

0138  On July - 10 publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies   

0518  On this day in history anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies   

0649  Death of Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599) on this day in history.   

0983  Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies on July - 10.   

1086  On this day in history death of knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered   

1099  Death of El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044) on this day in history.   

1103  On July - 10 erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies   

1290  On this day in history death of king Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)