Today in History July 10

1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.

1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.

1850 – President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor’s death.

1913 – The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.

1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

1938 – Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.

1942 – World War II: 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.

	Telstar

1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrioris bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.

1992 – In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

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.

1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

1682 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1716)

Born on the island of St Thomas, Camille Pissarro, of French and Danish ancestry was both an Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter

1834 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American-English painter and illustrator (d. 1903)

1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)

1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)

1871 – Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1922)

1902 – Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

1920 – David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)

1922 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer and actor (d. 2017)

1927 – David Dinkins, American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City

1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993)

1947 – Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

138 – Hadrian, Roman emperor (b. 76)

1559 – Henry II, king of France (b. 1519)

1851 – Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)

1978 – John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (b. 1906)

1979 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)

1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)