This day in history for July 10th;
552 -- Origin of Armenian calendar.
1679 -- The British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.
1776 -- The statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City.
1821 -- U.S. troops took possession of Florida. The territory was sold by Spain.
1866 -- Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1886 -- Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)
1890 -- Wyoming becomes 44th state
1892 -- 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1900 -- ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.
1913 -- The highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was 134 degrees in Death Valley, CA.
1919 -- Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
1923 -- 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle. (Rostov, Russia)
1926 -- Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage
1929 -- US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1933 -- 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY
1938 -- Howard Hughes completed a 91 hour flight around the world.
1947 -- 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China
1949 -- The first practical rectangular television was presented (Toledo, Ohio). The picture tube measured 12 by 16 and sold for $12.
1958 -- 1st parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1962 -- Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia
1962 -- The Telstar Communications satellite was launched. The satellite relayed TV and telephone signals between Europe and the U.S.
1972 -- Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India
1973 -- Bahamas gain independence after 300 yrs of British rule (Nat'l Day)
1982 -- Miguel Vasquez makes 1st public quadruple somersault on trapeze
1985 -- Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1985 -- French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
1989 -- Mel Blanc, the "man of a thousand voices," died at age 81. He was known for such cartoon characters as Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
1998 -- The Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who said they had been molested by a priest.
2000 -- A pipeline explosion in southern Nigeria killed about 250 villagers.
2002 -- Peter Paul Rubens' painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" sold for $76.2 million at Sotheby's.
I hope everyone enjoys this day in history!!
MsPriss *PrissieHuggzz* :)
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