This Day In History...

[rchurchward]

June 9, 1877 - Wimbledon Tournament Begins

On July 9, 1877, the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then an outer-suburb of London. Twenty-one amateurs showed up to compete in the Gentlemen's Singles tournament, the only event at the first Wimbledon. The winner was to take home a 25-guinea trophy.

Other significant events...
July 9, 1776 - The Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.
July 9, 1816 - Argentina declares independence from Spain.
July 9, 1850 - President Zachary Taylor dies and Millard Fillmore becomes the 13th president of the United States.
July 9, 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified.

[RedGoneWILD]

Donald Rumsfeld & O.J. Simpson were both born on July 9th....coincidence?

[rchurchward]

Donald Rumsfeld & O.J. Simpson were both born on July 9th....coincidence?

Haha. Could be. I don't know, you tell me.

[rchurchward]

July 10, 1940 - The Battle of Britain Begins

On this day in 1940, the 114-day Battle of Britain began as Axis powers began attacking southern England by air. One of the most spectacular battles of the war, the Allied forces were eventually able to fend off the high flying German Luftwaffe, which suffered heavy losses.

Other significant events...
July 10, 1212 - The most severe of several fires in London burns most of the city to the ground.
July 10, 1778 - In defense of the American Revolution, King Louis XVI of France declares war on Great Britain.
July 10, 1859 - Big Ben rings for the first time.
July 10, 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urged it's ratification.
July 10, 1925 - The Scopes Trial ("Monkey Trial") begins in Dayton, Tennessee.

[OnePimpTiger]

Back when France was cool...


I used to live in Chattanooga, TN, just about 30 mins from Dayton. That is literally their only, and I mean only, claim to fame.

[rchurchward]

Back when France was cool...


I used to live in Chattanooga, TN, just about 30 mins from Dayton. That is literally their only, and I mean only, claim to fame.

Yeah I've been there too and it's cool to see the courthouse, etc. but yeah, not much else.

Yeah, France used to be cool when they had our back. Oh the times, they are a changin'..

[angel0430]

Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of July 10:
1509 John Calvin Protestant religious reformer/theologian
1723 Sir William Blackstone England, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries)
1792 George Mifflin Dallas (D) 11th VP (1845-49)
1835 Henryk Wieniawski Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou)
1856 Nikola Tesla physicist, developed alternating current
1867 Finley Peter Dunne US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley)
1871 Marcel Proust France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)
1875 Mary McLeod Bethune SC, slave/educator (Bethune-Cookman College)
1879 Dr Harry Nicholls Holmes Penn, crystallized vitamin A
1882 Ima Hogg Texas art patron/founder of the Houston Symphony
1888 Giorgio De Chirico Greece, Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer)
1888 Graham McNamee sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl)
1888 Toyohiko Kagawa Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer
1895 Carl Orff Mnchen (Munich) Germany, composer (Antigonae)
1897 Lloyd Goodrich American Arts Museum director
19-- Dennis Allen KC Mo, comedian (Leslie Uggams Show, Laugh-in)
19-- Michael Woods Detroit Mich, actor (Our Family Honor)
19-- Sheila Anderson NYC, actress (Cecily Pigeon-New Odd Couple)
1913 Ljuba Welitsch Borisovo, Bulgaria, soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci)
1915 Saul Bellow Quebec, novelist (Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet)
1917 Don Herbert Waconia Minn, Mr Wizard
1919 Rusty Gill St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)
1920 David Brinkley Wilmington NC, NBC News anchor (Huntley-Brinkley)
1920 Owen Chamberlain codiscovered antiproton (Nobel 1959)
1921 Jake LaMotta Bronx, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull)
1921 Jeff Donnell South Windham Maine, actor (Gidget Goes to Rome)
1922 Herb McKenley Jamacia, 4 X 400m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 Dorothea Hochletiner Austria, giant slalom (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926 Carleton Carpenter Bennington Vt, actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock)
1926 Fred Gwynne NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)
1927 David Dinkins (Mayor-D-NYC, 1989- )
1927 William Smithers Richmond Va, actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!)
1931 Alice Munro author (Dance of the Happy Shades)
1931 Del Insko harness racer (toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader)
1931 Nick Adams Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-The Rebel)
1933 Chuan-Kwang Yang Taiwan, decathlete (Olympic-silver-1960)
1933 Jerry Herman Broadway composer (Hello Dolly)
1937 Sandy Stewart Phila Pa, singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President)
1939 Lawrence Pressman Ky, actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle)
1940 Mills Watson Oakland Calif, actor (Harper Valley PTA, BJ & Bear)
1941 Ian Whitcomb England, rocker (You Turn Me On)
1941 Robert Pine Scarsdale NY, actor (Joe Getraer-CHiPs)
1942 Pyotr I Klimuk cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30)
1943 Arthur Ashe tennis pro (1968 US Open)
1945 Ron Glass actor (Sgt Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place)
1945 Virginia Wade tennis star (Wimbeldon 1977)
1946 Sue Lyon Davenport Iowa, actress (Lolita, Evel Knievel)
1947 Arlo Guthrie singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
1949 Mark Shera Bayonne NJ, actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones)
1949 Ronnie James rocker (Dio-Holy Diver)
1954 Andre Dawson Miami Fla, outfielder (Expos, Cubs, 1987 NL MVP)
1954 Neil Francis Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boys-Left to My Own Devices)
1972 Damon Sharpe Cleveland Ohio, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)

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Deaths which occurred on July 10:
1692 Bridget Bishop first Salem witch hung
1863 Clement Clarke Moore ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83
1884 Paul Morphy US chess wizard, dies
1910 Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope, dies
1927 Kevin O'Higgins Irish Free State VP, assassinated
1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton pioneer jazz pianist, dies at 56 in LA
1945 Robert Goddard Rocket pioneer, dies
1977 Norman Paris orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41
1979 Arthur Fiedler orch leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84
1989 Mel Blanc voice of cartoon characters (Bugs Bunny), dies at 81
1991 Gerome Ragal author (Hair), dies at 48 of cancer

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )

1972 GREEN FRANK C. JR. WASKOM TX

[angel0430]

On this date in:


1832 President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.


1850 Vice President Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency following the death of Zachary Taylor.


1890 Wyoming became the 44th state.


1919 President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urged its ratification.


1943 U.S. and British forces invaded Sicily during World War II.


1951 Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong.


1962 The Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.


1964 The album "A Hard Day's Night" by the Beatles was released.


1973 The Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.


1979 Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had led the Boston Pops orchestra for half a century, died at age 84.


1985 Coca-Cola Co., bowing to pressure from irate customers after the introduction of New Coke, said it would resume selling its old formula.


1989 Mel Blanc, who supplied the voices for cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, died at age 81.


1991 Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.


1991 President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa, citing its "profound transformation" toward racial equality.


1992 A federal judge in Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega to 40 years in prison on drug and racketeering charges.


1995 Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was freed after nearly six years of house arrest in Yangon, Myanmar.


1997 Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that humans descended from an "African Eve" 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.


1999 The U.S. women's soccer team won the World Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.


2006 A section of ceiling in Boston's Big Dig tunnel collapsed, killing a car passenger.


2006 Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed when a dynamite-laden truck in his convoy exploded.



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Current Birthdays


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88 Jake LaMotta
Boxing Hall of Famer


88 Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Sister of President John F. Kennedy


82 William Smithers
Actor


78 Jerry Herman
Broadway composer ("Hello Dolly")


76 Ivan Passer
Director


70 Lawrence Pressman
Actor


70 Mavis Staples
R&B, gospel singer


69 Mills Watson
Actor


68 Robert Pine
Actor


66 Jerry Miller
Rock musician (Moby Grape)


64 Ron Glass
Actor ("Barney Miller")


64 Virginia Wade
Tennis Hall of Famer


63 Sue Lyon
Actress


62 Arlo Guthrie
Folk singer


60 Dave Smalley
Rock musician (The Raspberries)


58 Cheryl Wheeler
Singer, songwriter


55 Neil Tennant
Rock singer (Pet Shop Boys)


51 Bela Fleck
Banjo player (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones)


49 Shaw Wilson
Country musician (BR549)


44 Peter DiStefano
Rock musician (Porno for Pyros)


44 Ken Mellons
Country singer


39 Gary LeVox
Country singer (Rascal Flatts)


37 Sofia Vergara
Actress


29 Thomas Ian Nicholas
Actor


29 Jessica Simpson
Singer


28 John Spiker
Rock musician (Filter)



Historic Birthdays


Arthur Robert Ashe

7/10/1943 - 2/6/1993
Tennis champion
(Go to obit.)



54 John Calvin
7/10/1509 - 5/27/1564
French theologian


56 Sir William Blackstone
7/10/1723 - 2/14/1780
English jurist and author


68 Robert Chambers
7/10/1802 - 3/17/1871
Scottish author and publisher


73 Camille Pissarro
7/10/1830 - 11/13/1903
French Impressionist painter


74 Adolphus Busch
7/10/1839 - 10/10/1913
German-born American business leader and brewer


86 Nikoli Tesla
7/10/1856 - 1/7/1943
Serbian-American inventor and researcher


68 Finley Peter Dunne
7/10/1867 - 4/24/1936
American journalist and humorist


51 Marcel Proust
7/10/1871 - 11/18/1922
French novelist


79 Mary McLeod Bethune
7/10/1875 - 5/18/1955
American educator and civil rights advisor to Franklin Roosevelt


86 Carl Orff
7/10/1895 - 3/29/1982
German composer and musical innovator


55 Kurt Alder
7/10/1902 - 6/20/1958
German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1950)


71 Jorge Icaza
7/10/1906 - 5/26/1978
Ecuadorian novelist and playwright

[rchurchward]

July 11, 1804 - Aaron Burr slays Alexander Hamilton in pistol duel.

In a duel held in Weehawken, New Jersey, Vice President Aaron Burr fatally shoots his long-time political antagonist Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton, a leading Federalist and the chief architect of America's political economy, died the following day.

Other significant events...
July 11, 1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.
July 11, 1798 - The U.S. Marine Corps was created by an act of Congress.
July 11, 1914 - Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth made his major league debut as a pitcher for the Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston.

[rchurchward]

July 12, 1984 - Geraldine Ferraro Becomes First Female on Major Ticket

On July 12, 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale named New York Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro his running mate, making her the first woman to run on a major party ticket.

Other significant events...
July 12, 100 B.C. - Julius Caesar is born.
July 12, 1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
July 12, 1962 – The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
July 12, 1990 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned from the Communist Party.