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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 10 July.

1. Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US
2. Urbain J.J. Leverrier & John Couch Adams codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel.
3. VP Fillmore becomes pres following Zachary Taylor's death
4. Wyoming becomes 44th state.
5. Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope dies.
6. Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
7. Jury selection took place in John T. Scopes evolution trial
8. USSR's official news agency TASS established
9. Jack Burnett gets 9 hits in 1 18 inning game
10. 1st police radio system operated Eastchester Twp NY
11. Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air
12. US & Britain invade Sicily in WWII
13. Robert Goddard died.
14. 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced - Toledo Oh
15. Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
16. Telstar 1st geosynchronous communications satellite launched.
17. Orbiter 1 Launched to moon.
18. Bahamas became independent after 3 centuries of British rule
19. Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I. Queen
20. Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze.
21. Coca-Cola Co. announces it would resume selling old formula Coke
22. French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.

These famous people were born on 10 July.

1. 1509 - John Calvin, theologian
2. 1723 - Sir William Blackstone, English jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries).
3. 1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, (D), 11th VP (1845-49).
4. 1834 - James Whistler, artist, mama's boy
5. 1856 - Nikola Tesla, physicist who developed alternating current.
6. 1867 - Finley Peter Dunne, journalist, humorist, created Mr. Dooley.
7. 1871 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (Remembrance of Things Past).
8. 1888 - Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter.
9. 1915 - Saul Bellow, US novelist (Herzog, Dangling Man) (Nobel 1976).
10. 1920 - Owen Chamberlain, codiscoverer of the antiproton (Nobel 1959).
11. 1920 - David Brinkley, newscaster (NBC, ABC).
12. 1921 - Jake LaMotta, Boxer
13. 1926 - Fred Gwynne, Herman Munster
14. 1931 - Del Insko, harness racer.
15. 1933 - Jerry Herman, Broadway composer
16. 1942 - Pyotr I. Klimuk, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18, 30).
17. 1943 - Arthur Ashe, tennis pro.
18. 1945 - Virginia Wade, tennis star
19. 1946 - Sue Lyon, in Iowa
20. 1947 - Arlo Guthrie, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans).