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Events on July 10

• 1553 Lady Jane Grey is crowned Queen of England in the Tower of London. She goes down in history as the “Nine Days' Queen.”
• 1755 The premiere of the first German bourgeois tragedy, Miss Sara Sampson, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing takes place in the drill hall in Frankfurt.
• 1925 In Dayton, Tennessee, the “Monkey Trial” against the teacher John Thomas Scopes, who had taught the theory of evolution at a public school in defiance of the Butler Acts, begins.
• 1938 Howard Hughes circles the globe with his companions in a Lockheed 14 in 91 hours; it is the fastest round-the-world flight up to that point.
• 1940 The Battle of Britain begins with attacks by the German Luftwaffe on convoys in the English Channel and coastal British naval installations.
• 1956 The Frankfurter Kreuz motorway interchange, Europe's busiest transport hub today, is opened to traffic.
• 1962 Telstar, the first television satellite, is launched into space.
• 1966 Martin Luther King marches to Chicago City Hall with 36,000 supporters on “Freedom Sunday” and posts 48 theses calling for improvements in housing, education, and working conditions on the metal door there.
• 1976 In an accident at the Icmesa chemical plant in Seveso in northern Italy, the Seveso environmental disaster, large quantities of the highly toxic dioxin TCDD are released.
• 1985 The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk in Auckland, New Zealand, by French secret-service agents.
• 2000 The European aerospace company EADS is founded.
• 2006 In Poland, President Lech Kaczyński appoints his identical twin brother Jaroslaw as Prime Minister. This means that the two most important positions in the state are occupied by the two brothers, which also leads to criticism in Poland itself.

Born on July 10

• 1856 Nikola Tesla, Austrian-American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor
• 1871 Marcel Proust, French writer and critic
• 1883 Friedrich Flick, German mining industrialist, war criminal, richest man in Germany
• 1902 Kurt Alder, German chemist and Nobel laureate
• 1931 Alice Munro, Canadian writer and Nobel laureate
• 1942 Ronnie James Dio, American singer and songwriter
• 1952 Hubertus Bengsch, German actor and voice actor
• 1961 Ulla Kock am Brink, German television presenter
• 1980 Jessica Simpson, American singer and actress
• 1992 Larissa Marolt, Austrian model and actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „10. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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