July 10<\/p>\n
988 \u2013 The Norse King Gl\u00faniairn recognises M\u00e1el Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.<\/p>\n
1499 \u2013 The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.<\/p>\n
1584 \u2013 William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar G\u00e9rard. This is the first noted use of a concealable – wheel lock- handgun to kill a political figure and is considered by many the event that influences the political class the most to move for gun control.<\/p>\n
1778 \u2013As their part as allies of the U.S.,\u00a0 Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.<\/p>\n
1832 \u2013 President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would recharter the Second Bank of the United States.<\/p>\n
1850 \u2013 Millard Fillmore is sworn in as the 13th President, the day after President Zachary Taylor’s death.<\/p>\n
1890 \u2013 Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state<\/p>\n
1913\u2013 134 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded, is reached at Death Valley, California<\/p>\n
1925 \u2013 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.<\/em><\/p>\n 1938 \u2013 Howard Hughes begins a 91 hour airplane flight around the world<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island that the U.S. Navy uses to learn the aircraft’s flight characteristics.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 Telstar<\/em> is launched into orbit.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior<\/em> is sunk in Auckland harbour, purportedly by French DGSE agents, resulting in 1 crewmember being killed.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 L’Express Airlines Flight 508A, a Beechcraft C99, crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport in Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 passengers on board.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 In Federal Court held in Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013\u00a0 The Catholic Church Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by a former priest.<\/p>\n 2007 \u2013 Turkish American, Erden Eru\u00e7 begins the first solo human powered circumnavigation of the world.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 The last of the ‘original’ Volkswagen Beetles rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 10 988 \u2013 The Norse King Gl\u00faniairn recognises M\u00e1el Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin. 1499 \u2013 The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56842"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94243,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56842\/revisions\/94243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}