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 July - 10.   

1981  CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) on July - 10.   

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  Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze on this day in history.   

1982  On this day in history gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79   

1983  E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751 on this day in history.   

1983  On this day in history werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82   

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

1985  Explosion sinks Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor on July - 10.   

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

1985  On July - 10 fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered   

1986  Israeli helicopters bomb Palestinian camps on July - 10.   

1987  On this day in history john Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76   

1988  Errol John, playwright, dies at 63 on July - 10.   

1989  Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81 on July - 10.   

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

1990  Andrew Dice Clays cries on Arsenio Hall Show on July - 10.   

1990  On July - 10 hans Faverey, poet, dies   

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

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

1993  On July - 10 masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95   

1994  Earl Strum, referee (NBA), dies of brain cancer at 66 on this day in history.   

1995  On July - 10 hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74   

1996  On this day in history eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman, dies at 79   

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 July - 10.   

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

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  On this day in history zheng Xiaoyu, head of State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China executed.   

2011  On July - 10 british tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.   

2012  The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages on this day in history.   

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

2014  On this day in history yair Lapid warns of Israeli Defense Force ground operation if Gazan rocket fire do not stop   

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1419  Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471) was born on this day in history.   

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

1509  On this day in history birth of john Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian   

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

1526  Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien was born on July - 10.   

1592  Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660) was born on July - 10.   

1614  On this day in history birth of arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)   

1625  Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703) was born on this day in history.   

0138  Publius A Hadrianus, Roman emperor (117-138), dies on July - 10.   

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 July - 10.   

0983  Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies on this day in history.   

1086  Death of Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered on July - 10.   

1099  On this day in history death of el Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)   

1103  On this day in history 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)