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July 10: National Pina Colada Day: --
Rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice are all it takes to whisk
you away to a tropical location. Have yourself a mini-vacation by
sipping on a pina colada. The Pina Colada has a long and noble
history, both as a mixological standard, and as the heart of a
song about not giving up on love, just because you think it's
gotten stale. The name for the drink comes from the basis of its
creation, Pina meaning "Pineapple" and Colada meaning
"Strained." This drink is a delicious mix of all the
things that speak to the Caribbean and tropical locales, with the
pineapple juice mixed together with a rich coconut cream, spiked
up with just a bit of white rum into the mix. Is there anything
that speaks more of warm white sand beaches and beautiful azure
skies than a drink that was born on those same shores? As befits a
drink born of tropic fruits from tropical shores, stirred with a
drink distilled from the rich sugar born drink favored by
merchants and pirates alike, the history of the Pina Colada is
steeped is mystery, folklore, and conflict. The first and oldest
story of the drink is born in the Caribbean waters around Peurto
Rico, upon the ship of one Roberto Cofresi, Captain of a crew of
the foulest batch of pirates to sail the seas in the early 19th
century. While this is the earliest known origin of the drink,
used to boost the morale of the crew, the recipe was lost for a
time after his death in 1825. It wasn't until 1954 that the drink
was to find itself rediscovered by one Ricardo Garcia, a
mixologist born in Barcelona and working at a Hilton. This story
tells that it was discovered as a series of fortunately
unfortunate events, starting with a strike of the coconut cutters
union that led to a shortage of the favored cup of the resorts
favored drink, the Coco-Loco. Without a freshly macheted coconut
shell to serve it in, Ricardo adapted to the circumstances in
front of him by presenting the drink in a hollowed out pineapple
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July 10: National Pizza Day (Brazil): --
Sao Paulo is Brazil's pizza capital because a section of its
population is of Italian descent. The 'oriundi,' or Italian
descendants, in Brazil number around 25 million, and an estimated
10 million live in Sao Paulo. Nearly 25 million pizzas are eaten
every month in Sao Paulo. On National Pizza Day in Brazil,
pizzerias hold events and restaurants offer discounts. Tourists
get the opportunity to taste rare pizzas, including some made with
ice cream, chocolate truffles, and even fruit. Pizza is one of the
most popular fast food in the world. The average person consumes
around 23 lbs of pizza a year in the U.S. alone. Americans love
pizza so much that it gets a 35% increase in orders during
Superbowl. In Brazil, pizza is practically a staple food. Virgil's
"Aeneid" has one of the earliest references to pizza. It
describes a thin wheat cake scattered with mushrooms and herbs.
The city of Naples is the birthplace of pizza as we know it today.
Citizens needed a filling meal they could eat on the go. Vendors
hawked pizza in the streets, carrying them in large boxes and
cutting slices according to the customer's needs. These pizzas
were made with inexpensive ingredients like garlic, salt, lard,
tomatoes, and basil. Food critics scorned pizza, viewing it as
peasant food. All that changed in 1889 when Queen Margherita of
Italy ate a pizza made with basil, mozzarella, and tomatoes. She
liked it so much that it was named 'pizza Margherita.' Pizza came
to Brazil between 1870 and 1920, when the influx of Italian
immigrants was at its peak. Many of these immigrants settled in
Sao Paulo, working on the coffee plantations. They brought aspects
of their culture with them, including cuisine. Pizza quickly
became a hit with the locals, and the market steadily grew over
the years. In 1985, residents of Sao Paulo held a contest to
choose the best pizza out of 10 options. The event was so
successful that on the final day of celebration, residents decided
to make it a yearly occurrence. Every year since then, Sao Paulo
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July 10: Teddy Bear Picnic Day: -- Almost
every individual has had a teddy bear stuffed toy in their
lifetime. They have been loyal companions throughout our
childhood. This unofficial holiday is largely celebrated in
Canada, the United States, Australia, and some parts of Europe.
With this holiday being in the summer (in the northern
hemisphere), it's the perfect occasion to step outdoors and have a
picnic with your children and their adorable teddy bears. The
minute we hear the word teddy bear, it invokes a warm fuzzy
feeling in our minds and hearts. The humble teddy bear has worn
many hats since its inception, from being a cuddly playmate to a
collector's item. Though not many people know where the term
'teddy bear' or the concept of this stuffed toy even came from.
It's quite an interesting story, actually. It so happened that
once during a hunting trip back in 1902, the then U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear that someone had tied
to a tree. He stated that shooting it would be unsportsmanlike -
and that's how the story of 'Teddy's bear' came about. That
incentivized certain toymakers to make and sell bears with the
name 'Teddy Bear' and since then they have become an integral part
of people's lives across the world and age groups. This creation
is what led to the making of the song 'The Teddy Bears' Picnic' in
the 1900s. Initially, a melody was written for this song by John
W. Bratton and, many years later, Jimmy Kennedy, an Irish
songwriter, added the lyrics to the tune. This song has been loved
and enjoyed by children and adults alike over the years. Owing to
the immense popularity enjoyed by the song, Teddy Bear Picnic Day
was created to give us a chance to celebrate the simple and small
pleasures of a picnic with these stuffed animals. Don't forget to
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July 10: National Kitten Day: -- Kittens!
Who doesn't love tiny, adorable kittens? _their big heads, giant
eyes, tiny pink paws and noses, and the adorable mews they make_.
We can't resist their cute and furry charms. Surprisingly
Americans seem to like cats and kittens best: According to the
American Humane Society, 95.6 million cats were owned, while 83.3
million households owned a dog. There is certainly nothing wrong
with dogs, but a tiny kitten is irresistible! Cats are an enigma,
and we humans are utterly fascinated by them. Cats have been
living with people for 12,000 years, according to scientists. We
are still not exactly sure when cats became domesticated,
especially since the skeletons of wild cats and domesticated cats
discovered at archaeological sites are very similar. Still, most
evidence suggests that the domestication of cats occurred more
than 8,000 years ago. As if cats were not already so irresistibly
cute, they are even more adorable as kittens! Sweet little babies
that we just want to hold and cuddle, and once they start purring,
our hearts simply melt. National Kitten Day is when we spoil and
pamper our little fur babies. Created by animal advocate and pet
expert Colleen Paige, National Kitten Day is also an opportunity
for abandoned kittens to be adopted into loving homes. While many
of our kittens will be given special treatment today, countless
kittens don't find homes. Left alone at shelters, on roadsides, or
in the wild, National Kitten Day doubles as an awareness campaign
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July 10: Don't Step On A Bee Day (United
Kingdom): -- Bees have been around for centuries and are closely
related to wasps. They are mostly found in every part of the world
that has insect-pollinated flowering plants. Bees are essential to
our survival and play a big role in balancing our ecosystem. They
are great pollinators, produce honey, and give us food. This day
marks the importance of the existence of these insects and the
work that they do. Human beekeeping has been practiced since the
times of ancient Egypt and ancient Greece. Bees have even made an
appearance in mythology and folklore from ancient times to the
present day. In honor of these important living creatures, Don't
Step On A Bee Day was created by Thomas and Ruth Roy and is
particularly celebrated in the United States and the United
Kingdom. Often misinterpreted as a day that is only focused on not
willingly step on bees or harm them, the day holds a greater
significance. While it is important that one is aware that walking
barefoot may increase the chances of a bee sting, it is also
necessary to remember the many benefits that bees bring. The day
aims to create consciousness about the conservation of bees and
highlights the plight they face due to the destruction of their
habitats. The insecticides, particularly those containing
neonicotinoids that are fatal for bees, along with pollution,
chemical exposure, and temperature changes pose a threat to their
existence. To ensure that the general populace is aware of this
day, there are several events held to educate people on these
buzzing insects and how to take care of them and co-exist in
harmony. Bees have even found a place in popular culture. A
humorous animated movie that released in 2007, "Bee Movie"
showed a honey bee suing the human race for exploiting bees.
Furthermore, Dave Goulson's book "A Sting in the Tale,"
which was released in 2014, describes the biology of bees and his
efforts to save bumblebees in Britain. It is important that people
take cognizance of the fact that if we don't do our bit in
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July 10, 1856: Nikola Tesla Day: --
#BOTD: #HBD! Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor, electrical
engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best
known for his contributions to the design of the modern
alternating current (AC) electricity supply system (d. January 7,
1943) is #born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, within
the Military Frontier (a borderland of the Habsburg Monarchy and
later the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empire that acted as the
buffer against incursions from the Ottoman Empire) in the Austrian
Empire (present day Croatia). Tesla became well known as an
inventor and would demonstrate his achievements to celebrities and
wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at
public lectures. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla
received an advanced education in engineering and physics in the
1870s and gained practical experience in the early 1880s working
in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power
industry. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, where he
would become a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at
the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on
his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his
ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to
develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His
alternating current (AC) induction motor and related polyphase AC
patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a
considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the
polyphase system which that company would eventually market.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla
conducted a range of experiments with mechanical
oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early
X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless-controlled boat, one of
the first ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor
and would demonstrate his achievements to celebrities and wealthy
patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public
lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for
wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power
distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments
in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements
on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices.
Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished
Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless
communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before
he could complete it. After Wardenclyffe, Tesla went on to try to
develop a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying
degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, he lived in a
series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. Tesla died
of coronary thrombosis alone in Room 3327 of the Hotel New Yorker
in New York City in January 1943; his body was later found by maid
Alice Monaghan after she had entered Tesla's room, ignoring the
"do not disturb" sign that Tesla had placed on his door
two days earlier. Two days later the Federal Bureau of
Investigation ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize
Tesla's belongings. John G. Trump, a professor at M.I.T. and a
well-known electrical engineer serving as a technical aide to the
National Defense Research Committee, was called in to analyze the
Tesla items, which were being held in custody. After a three-day
investigation, Trump's report concluded that there was nothing
which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands. On January
10, 1943, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia read a eulogy
written by Slovene-American author Louis Adamic live over the WNYC
radio while violin pieces "Ave Maria" and "Tamo
daleko" were played in the background. On January 12, two
thousand people attended a state funeral for Tesla at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. After the funeral,
Tesla's body was taken to the Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, New
York, where it was later cremated. The following day, a second
service was conducted by prominent priests in the Trinity Chapel
(today's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava) in New York
City. His work fell into relative obscurity following his death,
but in 1960, the General Conference on Weights and Measures named
the SI unit of magnetic flux density the tesla in his honor. There
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July 10: Chronic Disease Awareness Day:
-- Constant health battles, unseen struggles on a daily basis, a
silent quest for understanding, empathy, and support. Some of the
most common chronic diseases that can have a debilitating impact
on a person's life include heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes,
arthritis, osteoporosis, colorectal and many others. These
diseases may come out of nowhere, but many times there are various
warning signs that allow them to be caught early and treated more
proactively. Chronic Disease Awareness Day is here to increase
public knowledge and work hard to improve access to health
information of each person in every community! Chronic Disease
Awareness Day is scheduled to take place each year on July 10
(7/10) because chronic disease is responsible for 7 out of the top
10 leading causes of death in the United States. The day was
founded with the purpose of educating individuals and the
community about chronic disease, the effects it can have on a
person's health, the opportunities for prevention and the
resources available for those who need them. When individuals and
families are aware of different warning signs, prevention
opportunities for early detection, it can add years to a person's
lifespan. Chronic Disease Awareness Day seeks to invite and
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July 10, 1938: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: Circumnavigation: Circumnavigation Of The Earth: Aerial
Circumnavigation Of The Earth: -- Howard Hughes begins another
record-setting flight by taking off from Floyd Bennett Field, an
airfield in the Marine Park neighborhood of southeast Brooklyn in
New York City along the shore of Jamaica Bay, in his Lockheed 14
Super Electra (NX18973 a twin-engine transport plane with a crew
of four, fitted with the latest radio and navigational equipment,
to fly around the world in just 91 hours (three days, 19 hours, 17
minutes), beating the previous record of 186 hours (7 days, 18
hours, 49 minutes) set in 1933 by Wiley Post in a single-engine
Lockheed Vega by almost four days. Hughes returned home ahead of
photographs of his flight. Hughes flew from New York to Paris,
Moscow, Omsk, Yakutsk, Fairbanks, and Minneapolis, then returning
to Floyd Bennett Field, New York City. Harry Connor was his
co-pilot, Thomas Thurlow the navigator, Richard Stoddart the
engineer, and Ed Lund the mechanic. Hughes wanted the flight to be
a triumph of U.S. aviation technology, illustrating that safe,
long-distance air travel was possible. Albert Lodwick of Mystic,
Iowa, provided organizational skills as the flight operations
manager. While Hughes had previously been relatively obscure
despite his wealth (being better known for dating Katharine
Hepburn than anything else), New York City now gave him a
ticker-tape parade in the Canyon Of Heroes. For this record-time
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July 10, 1962: Outer Space Firsts: Rocket
Launches: The History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The
Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Spage Age: The Space
Race: The United States Space Program: Earth Satellites: Weather
Satellites (Meteorological Satellites: Communications Satellites:
Telstar 1 (Telstar): -- Telstar 1, the first of the Telstar series
and the world's first communications satellite, is launched on top
of a Thor-Delta rocket into medium orbit from Cape Canaveral, and
was the first privately sponsored space launch. Telstar is the
name of various communications satellites produced by American
Telephone And Telegraph (ATT). The first two Telstar satellites
were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar1 successfully
relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone
calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live
transatlantic television feed. Telstar 1 became a victim of the
military technology of the Cold War era; the day before Telstar 1
launched, a U.S. high-altitude nuclear bomb (called Starfish
Prime) had energized the Earth's Van Allen Belt where Telstar 1
went into orbit. This vast increase in a radiation belt, combined
with subsequent high-altitude blasts, including a Soviet test in
October, overwhelmed Telstar's fragile transistors. It went out of
service in November 1962, after handling over 400 telephone,
telegraph, facsimile, and television transmissions. It was
restarted by a workaround in early January 1963. The additional
radiation associated with its return to full exposure to sunlight
once again caused a transistor failure, this time irreparably, and
Telstar 1 went back out of service on February 21, 1963. Telstar 2
launched May 7, 1963. Telstar 1 and 2 - though no longer
functional - still orbit the Earth. Subsequent Telstar satellites
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July 10, 1912: #BOTD: #HBD! Dusko Popov
OBE, considered to be one of his friend and colleague Ian
Fleming's primary inspirations for the character of James Bond. a
spy whose deceptions saved thousands of Allied lives on D-Day and,
if heeded, would have averted the Pearl Harbor Attack, codenamed
Tricycle by the British MI5 because he was the head of a group of
three double agents during World War II, Serbian intelligence
agent, lawyer and businessman who, while occasionally using cover
as a diplomat for the Yugoslav government-in-exile in London,
feigned to be an asset of the German Abwehr, who gave him the
codename Ivan, while passing off disinformation to Germany as part
of the British Double-Cross System, and who also reported to the
Yugoslav intelligence service, which assigned him the codename
Dusko that was ultimately to become his nickname (d. August 10,
1981) is #born Dusan Popov into a wealthy family in Titel,
Austria-Hungary (present-day Serbia). Popov was known for his
high-living lifestyle -- a fact which blinded FBI chief J. Edgar
Hoover to his merits so much that it caused America to pass up
intelligence he provided that Japan was going to attack Pearl
Harbor -- and he courted rich, famous and beautiful women during
his missions, including the famed sex symbol French actress Simone
Simon. A practicing lawyer at the start of the war, he held a
great aversion to Nazism, and in 1940, infiltrated the Abwehr,
Germany's military intelligence service, which considered him a
valuable asset due to his business connections in France and the
United Kingdom. In 1941, Popov repeatedly travelled to Portugal
during his missions. He stayed in Estoril, at the Hotel Palacio,
in January and March 1941, then again between June 29 and August
10, 1941. During his stay, he met Ian Fleming, at the time working
for the British Royal Navy. They both shared a mission at Casino
Estoril, and it is believed that this resulted in Popov serving as
inspiration for the character of James Bond in Fleming's novels.
After this last stay, he was dispatched to the United States by
the Abwehr to establish a new German network. He was given ample
funds and an intelligence questionnaire concealed in a microdot
used as a period at the end of a sentence in a telegram
(containing a list of intelligence targets, later published as an
appendix to J.C. Masterman's book The Double Cross System). Of the
three typewritten pages of the questionnaire secreted into a
microscopic photograph within that microdot, one entire page was
devoted to highly detailed questions about US defences at Pearl
Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. He made contact with the
FBI and explained what he had been asked to do. During a televised
interview, Dusko Popov related having informed the FBI on August
12, 1941 of the impending attack on Pearl Harbor. Either the FBI
chief J. Edgar Hoover did not report this fact to his superiors or
they, for reasons of their own, took no action. Hoover distrusted
Popov because he was a double agent although MI6 had told the FBI
in New York City that he would be arriving; British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill himself had notified President Franklin
Roosevelt that "Tricycle" was coming, and that what he
had to say had been vetted and approved by MI6 and Churchill.
Popov himself said Hoover was quite suspicious and distrustful of
him and, according to author William "Mole" Wood, when
Hoover discovered Popov had brought a woman from New York State to
Florida, threatened to have him arrested under the Mann Act if he
did not leave the US immediately! Popov borrowed 10,000 PS from
his lover Simone Simon in late 1942 (equivalent to 600,000 PS in
2025) shortly before he left for Portugal.; he did not repay her
when they broke up in 1943. In 1944, Popov became a key part of
the deception operation codenamed Fortitude, an Allied effort to
convince Germany that the invasion would target Calais rather than
Normandy. At the time of the operation, he was staying in
Portugal. He stayed in Estoril once again, at the Hotel Palacio,
between March 31 and April 12, 1944. When his schoolboy friend and
fellow double agent Johnny Jebsen was arrested by the Gestapo in
Lisbon, the British feared Popov had been compromised, and ceased
giving him critical information to pass along to the Germans. It
was later discovered that the Abwehr still regarded Popov as an
asset and he was brought back into use by the British. Jebsen's
death at the hands of the Nazis had a profound emotional impact on
Popov. In 1972, John Cecil Masterman published The Double Cross
System in the War of 1939 to 1945, an intimate account of wartime
British military deception. Before its publication, Popov had no
intention of revealing his wartime activities, believing that the
MI6 would not allow it. Masterman's book convinced Popov that it
was time to make his exploits public. In 1974, Popov published an
autobiography titled Spy/Counterspy; Popov's wife and children
were apparently unaware of his past until the book's publication.
By the early 1980s, years of chain smoking and heavy drinking had
taken a toll on Popov's health. He died in Opio, Alpes-Maritimes,
France, aged 69; he is buried in Opio. His family said his death
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July 10, 1919: White Supremacy:
Terrorism: Anti-Black Racism: Anti-Black Racism In The United
States: Race Riots: Race Riots In The United States: The Nadir Of
American Race Relations (1877/1890 - 1901/1923/1941 [Dates
Disputed]): The First Red Scare: Red Summer: The Longview Race
Riot (July 10-12, 1919): -- The Longview Race Riot, a white race
riot in Longview and Gregg county, Texas that led to the deaths of
at least 4 men and destroyed the African American housing district
in the town, begins as whites attack black areas of town, kill one
black man, and burn down several properties, including the houses
of a black teacher and a doctor. It was one of the many race riots
in 1919 in the United States during what became known as Red
Summer, a period after World War I known for numerous riots
occurring mostly in urban areas. The riot ended after local and
state officials took actions to impose military authority and
quell further violence. After ignoring early rumors of planned
unrest, local officials appealed to the governor for forces to
quell the violence. In a short time, the Texas National Guard and
Texas Rangers sent forces to the town, where the Guard organized
an occupation and curfew. Some men were shot and numerous black
homes and businesses were burned prior to the arrival of the law
enforcement and military units. One black man was shot and killed
by armed whites before the National Guard occupied the town. No
one was prosecuted for the events, although numerous whites and
blacks were arrested. The black suspects were taken to Austin for
their safety; half were advised against ever returning to
Longview. Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which white
supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three
dozen cities across the United States, and in one rural county in
Arkansas. The term "Red Summer" was coined by civil
rights activist and author James Weldon Johnson, who had been
employed as a field secretary by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) since 1916. In 1919, he
organized peaceful protests against the racial violence. In most
instances, attacks consisted of white-on-black violence. Numerous
African Americans fought back, notably in the Chicago and
Washington, D.C., race riots, which resulted in 38 and 15 deaths
respectively, along with even more injuries, and extensive
property damage in Chicago. Still, the highest number of
fatalities occurred in the rural area around Elaine, Arkansas,
where an estimated 100-240 black people and five white people were
killed-an event now known as the Elaine massacre. The anti-black
riots developed from a variety of post-World War I social
tensions, generally related to the demobilization of both black
and white members of the United States Armed Forces following
World War I; an economic slump; and increased competition in the
job and housing markets between ethnic European Americans and
African Americans. The time would also be marked by labor unrest,
for which certain industrialists used black people as
strikebreakers, further inflaming the resentment of white workers.
The riots and killings were extensively documented by the press,
which, along with the federal government, feared socialist and
communist influence on the black civil rights movement of the time
following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. They also
feared foreign anarchists, who had bombed the homes and businesses
of prominent figures and government leaders. On Sunday July 13,
Texas Governor William P. Hobby declares martial law in all of
Gregg County, placing Brigadier General Robert H. McDill in
command of the soldiers and the rangers. General McDill issued
orders dividing the town into two districts, giving command of one
section to Colonel T.E. Barton, and the other to Colonel H.W.
Peck. Colonel H.C. Smith was placed in command of the Texas
Rangers. McDill ordered a 10:30 PM to 6:00 AM curfew in Longview,
and prohibited groups of three or more people from gathering on
the streets. He ordered the local telephone operators not to place
any long-distance calls, to prevent recruiting of weapons or men
from neighboring towns. He ordered all residents of Longview and
Kilgore to surrender their weapons at the county courthouse in
Longview. Residents were warned that their homes could be
searched, with a severe penalty for concealing firearms. An
estimated 5,000 to 7,000 guns were turned in at the courthouse,
and stored in "scattered locations throughout the building."
General McDill asked the town officials to organize a committee
consisting of local citizens, to work with him and the military
during the emergency. They identified only white businessmen and
other leaders. The committee met on Monday, July 14, at Judge
Bramlette's office and elected the attorney Ras Young as chairman;
it also authorized Judge Bramlette, Sheriff Bodenheim and Young to
communicate with the military. The committee drafted a list of
concerns. They "expressed disapproval" of Jones'
newspaper article and the armed defense of his former home. Their
resolution said, we will not "permit the negroes of this
community and county to in any way interfere with our social
affairs or to write or circulate articles about the white people
of our city or county...." The committee stated their
opposition to the burning of African American property, and took
steps to prevent any more losses. The members commended Governor
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Today, July 10, 2026
July 10, 1942: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The American Theater Of
World War II (The Americas Theater Of World War II): The Aleutian
Islands Campaign (The Alaska Campaign) (Japanese: Aryushan Homen
No Tatakai, "The Battle Of The Aleutians"): The Battle
Of Dutch Harbor: The Akutan Zero (Koga's Zero, The Aleutian Zero):
-- American Lt. William "Bill" Thies piloting an
American PBY Catalina spots an intact Type 0 Model 21 Mitsubishi
A6M Zero Japanese fighter aircraft that Japanese Navy Petty
Officer first class Tadayoshi Koga fatally crash-landed on Akutan
Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands while serving in the June
4, 1942 raid on Dutch Harbor launched from the Japanese aircraft
carrier Ryujo during the June 3-4, 1942 Battle Of Dutch Harbor
over a month prior. It became the first flyable Zero acquired by
the United States during the war, and the US Navy used it to learn
the aircraft's flight characteristics. It was repaired and flown
by American test pilots. As a result of information gained from
these tests, American tacticians were able to devise ways to
defeat the Zero, which was the Imperial Japanese Navy's primary
fighter plane throughout the war. The Akutan Zero has been
described as "a prize almost beyond value to the United
States", and "probably one of the greatest prizes of the
Pacific War". Japanese historian and lieutenant general
Masatake Okumiya stated that the acquisition of the Akutan Zero
"was no less serious" than the Japanese defeat at the
Battle of Midway, and that it "did much to hasten Japan's
final defeat". On the other hand, John Lundstrom is among
those who challenge "the contention that it took dissection
of Koga's Zero to create tactics that beat the fabled airplane".
The Akutan Zero was destroyed in a training accident in 1945.
Parts of it are preserved in several museums in the United States.
The Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Mitsubishi Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighter,
Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen, Reisen) is a long-range carrier-based
fighter aircraft formerly manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft
Company, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and was operated
by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945. The A6M was
designated as the Mitsubishi Navy Type 0 carrier fighter
(Japanese: Rei-Shiki-Kanjo-Sentoki), or the Mitsubishi A6M
Rei-sen. The A6M was usually referred to by its pilots as the
Reisen (Japanese: Zero Fighter), "0" being the last
digit of the imperial year 2600 (1940) when it entered service
with the Imperial Navy. The official Allied reporting name was
"Zeke", although the name "Zero" (from Type 0)
was used colloquially as well. The Zero is considered to have been
the most capable carrier-based fighter in the world when it was
introduced early in World War II, combining excellent
maneuverability and very long range. The Imperial Japanese Navy
Air Service (IJNAS) also frequently used it as a land-based
fighter. In early combat operations, the Zero gained a reputation
as a dogfighter, achieving an outstanding kill ratio of 12 to 1,
but by mid-1942 a combination of new tactics and the introduction
of better equipment enabled Allied pilots to engage the Zero on
generally equal terms. By 1943, the Zero was less effective
against newer Allied fighters due to design limitations. It lacked
hydraulic boosting for its ailerons and rudder, rendering it
extremely difficult to maneuver at high speeds. By 1944, with
Allied fighters approaching the A6M levels of maneuverability and
consistently exceeding its firepower, armor, and speed, the A6M
had largely become outdated as a fighter aircraft. However, as
design delays and production difficulties hampered the
introduction of newer Japanese aircraft models, the Zero continued
to serve in a front-line role until the end of the war in the
Pacific. During the final phases, it was also adapted for use in
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July 10, 1871: #BOTD: #HBD! Marcel
Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist, considered by
critics and writers to be one of the greatest and most influential
authors of the 20th century (d. November 18, 1922) is #born
Valentin Louis Georges Eugene Marcel Proust in the Paris Borough
of Auteuil, the south-western sector of the then-rustic 16th
arrondissement, shortly after the conclusion of the
Franco-Prussian War and at the very beginning of the Third
Republic. Marel Proust is best known for his monumental novel A La
Recherche Du Temps Perdu (In Search Of Lost Time; earlier rendered
as Remembrance Of Things Past), published in seven parts between
1913 and 1927. Proust spent the last three years of his life
mostly confined to his Paris bedroom, sleeping during the day and
working at night to complete his novel. He died there of pneumonia
and a pulmonary abscess at the age of 51. He was buried in the
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July 10, 1940: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): Vichy France (The French State): The Government Of
Vichy France (July 10, 1940 - August 9, 1944): The French
Constitutional Law Of 1940: -- The Vichy Government is established
as a set of bills known as The French Constitutional Law Of 1940
are voted into law by the National Assembly, which comprised both
the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies during the French Third
Republic. The law established the Vichy regime and passed with 569
votes to 80, with 20 abstentions. The group of 80 parliamentarians
who voted against it are known as the Vichy 80. The law gave all
the government powers to Philippe Petain, and further authorized
him to take all necessary measures to write a new constitution.
Petain interpreted this as de facto suspending the French
Constitutional Laws of 1875 which established the Third Republic,
even though the law did not explicitly suspend it, but only
granted him the power to write a new constitution. The next day,
by Act No 2, Petain defined his powers and abrogated all the laws
of the Third Republic that were incompatible with them. Although
given full constituent powers by the law, Petain never promulgated
a new constitution. A draft was written in 1941 and signed by
Petain in 1944, but it was never submitted or ratified. The
Government Of Vichy France effectively ended with The Ordinance of
9 August 1944, an ordinance promulgated by the Provisional
Government of the French Republic after D-Day, asserting the
nullity of the Constitutional Law of 1940 and other classes of law
passed later by Vichy. The Constitution of 1940 was not repealed
or annulled but rather declared void ab initio (Latin: "void
from the beginning"), having no legal effect. The Ordinance
of 9 August 1944 was a constitutional law enacted by The
Provisional Government Of The French Republic (GPRF) which
re-established republican rule of law in mainland France after
four years of occupation by Nazi Germany and control by the
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July 10, 1765: #BOTD: #HBD! Prince Pyotr
Bagration, nicknamed "God Of The Army" and "The
Eagle", Russian general and prince of Georgian origin,
prominent during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, of
whom Napoleon said ""Russia has no good generals. The
only exception is Bagration.", namesake of the codename for
the 1944 Soviet Byelorussian Strategic Offensive Operation during
The Great Patriotic War on The Eastern Front Of World War II (d.
September 24, 1812) is #born Peter Bagrationi in Kizlyar,
Astrakhan Governorate, Russian Empire into The Bagrationi Dynasty,
the royal dynasty which reigned in Georgia from the Middle Ages
until the early 19th century, one of the oldest extant Christian
ruling dynasties in the world. His father, Ivan (Ivane), served as
an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, in which Bagration also
enlisted in 1782. Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration began his military
career serving in the Russo-Circassian War of 1763-1864 for a
couple of years. Afterwards he participated in a war against the
Ottomans and the capture of Ochakov in 1788. Later he helped
suppress the Kosciuszko Uprising of 1794 in Poland and capture
Warsaw. During Russia's Italian and Swiss campaigns of 1799
against the French, he served with distinction under Field Marshal
Alexander Suvorov. In 1805 Russia joined the coalition against
Napoleon. After the collapse of the Austrians at Ulm in October
1805, Bagration won praise for his successful defense in the
Battle of Schongrabern (November 1805) that allowed Russian forces
to withdraw and unite with the main Russian army of Mikhail
Kutuzov. In December 1805 the combined Russo-Austrian army
suffered defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz, where Bagration
commanded the allied right wing against the French under Jean
Lannes. Later he commanded Russian troops in the Finnish War
(1808-1809) against Sweden and in another war against the Turks
(1806-1812) on the Danube. During the French invasion of Russia in
1812, Bagration commanded one of two large Russian armies (Barclay
de Tolly commanded the other) fighting a series of rear-guard
actions. The Russians failed to stop the French advance at the
Battle of Smolensk in August 1812. Barclay had proposed a
scorched-earth retreat that the emperor Alexander I of Russia had
approved, although Bagration preferred to confront the French in a
major battle. Mikhail Kutuzov succeeded Barclay as
commander-in-chief but continued his policy until the Battle of
Borodino (September 7, 1812) near Moscow. Bagration commanded the
left wing around what became known as the Bagration Fleches at
Borodino, where he was mortally wounded; he died a couple of weeks
later, aged 47. Originally buried at a local church, in 1839 he
was reburied on The Battlefield Of Borodino, now part of The State
Borodino War And History Museum And Reserve, in Borodino village,
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July 10, 1921: 20th Century Revolutions:
Irish Nationalism: The Irish Revolutionary Period (1912-1923): The
Irish War Of Independence (January 21, 1919 - July 11, 1921) (The
Anglo-Irish War, Irish: Cogadh Na Saoirse): Belfast's Bloody
Sunday: -- Seventeen people are killed, at least 100 people
wounded, and a bout 200 houses are destroyed or badly damaged,
most of them Catholic homes, leaving 1,000 people homeless during
rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Bloody
Sunday, or Belfast's Bloody Sunday, was a day of violence that
erupted one day before the July 11 truce which ended the war in
most of Ireland. With the truce nearing, police launched a raid
against republicans, but were ambushed by the Irish Republican
Army (IRA) and an officer was killed. In retaliation, Protestant
loyalists attacked Catholic enclaves in west Belfast, burning
homes and businesses. This sparked rioting and gun battles between
Protestants and Catholics, including paramilitaries. There were
also gun battles between republicans/nationalists and the police,
and some police patrols fired indiscriminately at Catholic
civilians. The Irish War Of Independence (January 21, 1919 - July
11, 1921) (Irish: Cogadh na Saoirse) or Anglo-Irish War was a
guerrilla war fought in Ireland from January 21, 1919 - July 11,
1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish
Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the
quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary
forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). On
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July 10, 1925: Evolution: The Theory Of
Evolution: Evolution Of Primates: Human Evolution (Anthropogeny,
Anthropogenesis, Anthropogony): Christian Creationism: The
Rejection Of Evolution By Religious Groups: The Butler Act (An Act
Prohibiting The Teaching Of The Evolution Theory In All The
Universities, And All Other Public Schools Of Tennessee, Which Are
Supported In Whole Or In Part By The Public School Funds Of The
State, And To Provide Penalties For The Violations Thereof): The
Scopes Trial (Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, The Scopes Monkey
Trial): -- In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial"
of teacher John T. Scopes begins. The Scopes Trial, formally known
as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly
referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case
in July 1925 in which a young substitute high school science
teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's
Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in
any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in
order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee,
where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually
taught evolution, but he purposely incriminated himself so that
the case could have a defendant. Scopes was found guilty and fined
100USD (equal to 1395 USD in 2017), but the verdict was overturned
on a technicality. The trial served its purpose of drawing intense
national publicity, as national reporters flocked to Dayton to
cover the big-name lawyers who had agreed to represent each side.
William Jennings Bryan, three-time presidential candidate, argued
for the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow, the famed defense
attorney, spoke for Scopes. The trial publicized the
Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy, which set Modernists, who
said evolution was not inconsistent with religion, against
Fundamentalists, who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible
took priority over all human knowledge. The case was thus seen as
both a theological contest and a trial on whether "modern
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July 10, 1978: The History Of
Broadcasting: The History Of Television Broadcasting: Television
Journalism: The History Of Television Journalism: Premieres:
Television Premieres: United States Television Premieres: ABC
World News Tonight: -- ABC World News Tonight premieres on the ABC
television network. Since the ABC Evening News was always the
perennial third in the national ratings, ABC News president Roone
Arledge reformatted as World News Tonight. News Anchor Frank
Reynolds, who was demoted when the network hired Reasoner,
returned as lead anchor, reporting from ABC News' Washington, D.C.
bureau. Max Robinson - who became the first African American
network news anchor upon his appointment on the program - anchored
national news from the news division's Chicago bureau. Peter
Jennings, who also returned for a second stint at anchoring ABC
News, reported international headlines from the division's London
bureau. Occasional contributions included special reports by
Barbara Walters, who was credited as anchor of the special
coverage desk from New York City and worldwide, and commentary by
Howard K. Smith, who was easing into eventual retirement. The
program's distinct and easily identifiable theme - a four-note
musical signature eventually used on other ABC News programs - was
written by Bob Israel. Ratings slowly climbed to the point where
World News Tonight eventually beat both NBC Nightly News and the
CBS Evening News, marking the first time ever that ABC had the
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July 10: Russian Day Of Military Honour:
Victory Over Sweden In The Battle Of Poltava, 1709: -- The Days Of
Military Honour are special memorable dates in the Russian Armed
Forces dedicated to the most outstanding victories won by Russia.
Some of these dates are state holidays but the majority of them is
celebrated purely in the military. The Battle of Poltava on June
27, 1709 (July 8, N.S.) was the decisive victory of Peter I of
Russia, also known as "the Great," over the Swedish
forces under Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiold, in one of the
battles of the Great Northern War. It is widely believed by
historians to have been the beginning of Swedish Empire's decline
as a European great power, while the Tsardom of Russia took its
place as the leading nation of north-eastern Europe. The battle
also bears major importance in Ukrainian national history, as
Hetman of Zaporizhian Host Ivan Mazepa sided with the Swedes,
seeking to create an uprising in Ukraine against the tsardom.
Today, at the site of the battle there is a State Cultural
Heritage Preserve Complex in Poltava known as the "Poltava
Battle Field" and consists of monuments and churches
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July 10, 1951: Korea: The History Of
Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Korean
Conflict: The Korean War: The Korean War Stalemate (July 1951-July
1953): Korean War Armistices Negotiations (The Korean Armistice
Agreement Negotiations): -- Protracted armistice negotiations
begin at Kaesong in North Korea. For the remainder of the war, the
UN and the PVA/KPA fought tenaciously, but exchanged little
territory, and large-scale bombing of the North continued. The
goal of the UN forces was to recapture all of South Korea and
avoid losing territory. The PVA and the KPA attempted similar
operations, and later effected military and psychological
operations to test the UN Command's resolve to continue the war.
After two more years of negotiations, The Korean Armistice
Agreement was signed on July 27, 1953, designed to "ensure a
complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force
in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved.". On
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July 10, 1947: #BOTD: #HBD! Arlo Guthrie,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist, autoharpist,
zitherist, banjo player, harmonica player, saxophonist, producer,
and actor, is #born Arlo Davy Guthrie in the Coney Island
neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. He is known for singing
songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while
performing songs, following the tradition of his father Woody
Guthrie. Guthrie's best-known work is his debut piece, "Alice's
Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song about
18 minutes in length that has since become a Thanksgiving anthem.
His only top-40 hit was a cover of Steve Goodman's "City of
New Orleans". His song "Massachusetts" was named
the official folk song of the state in which he has lived most of
his adult life. Guthrie has also made several acting appearances.
He is the father of four children, who have also had careers as
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July 10, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Cootie
Williams, African American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues
trumpeter and bandleader (d. September 15, 1985) is #born Charles
Melvin Williams in Mobile, Alabama. He began his professional
career at the age of fourteen with the Young Family band, which
included saxophonist Lester Young. According to Williams he
acquired his nickname as a boy when his father took him to a band
concert. When it was over his father asked him what he'd heard and
he replied, "Cootie, cootie, cootie.". In 1928, he made
his first recordings with pianist James P. Johnson in New York,
where he also worked briefly in the bands of Chick Webb and
Fletcher Henderson. He rose to prominence as a member of Duke
Ellington's orchestra when the band was playing at the Cotton
Club, with which he first performed from 1929 to 1940. He also
recorded his own sessions during this time, both freelance and
with other Ellington sidemen. Williams was renowned for his
"jungle" style trumpet playing (in the manner of
Ellington's earlier trumpeter Bubber Miley and trombonist Joe
"Tricky Sam" Nanton) and for his use of the plunger
mute. He also sang occasionally, a notable example being in the
Ellington piece, "Echoes of the Jungle". For him, Duke
Ellington wrote ''Concerto for Cootie,'' which when lyrics were
added became "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me". He was
also the soloist in other major Ellington compositions like
''Echoes of Harlem'' and the religious piece ''The Shepherd Who
Watches Over the Night Flock,'' which was dedicated to the Rev.
John Gensel. In 1940 he joined Benny Goodman's orchestra, a highly
publicized move that caused quite a stir at the time (commemorated
by Raymond Scott with the song "When Cootie Left the Duke"),
then in 1941 formed his own orchestra, in which over the years he
employed Charlie Parker, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Bud
Powell, Eddie Vinson, and other young players. In 1947, Williams
wrote the song "Cowpox Boogie" while recuperating from a
bout with smallpox. He contracted the disease from a vaccination
he insisted all band members receive. By the late 1940s Williams
had fallen into obscurity, having had to reduce his band numbers
and finally to disband. In the 1950s, he began to play more rhythm
and blues, toured with small groups, and played in the Savoy
Ballroom. In the late 1950s he formed a small jazz group and
recorded a number of albums with Rex Stewart, as well as his own
album, Cootie in Hi-Fi (1958). In 1962, he rejoined Ellington and
stayed with the orchestra until 1974, after Ellington's death. In
1975, he performed during the Super Bowl IX halftime show. He was
a 1991 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. Williams died in
New York on September 15, 1985, at age 74 from a kidney ailment.
He is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.
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July 10, 1943: #BOTD: #HBD! Arthur Ashe,
African American professional tennis player who won three Grand
Slam singles titles (d. February 6, 1993) is #born Arthur Robert
Ashe Jr. in Richmond, Virginia. He started to play tennis at six
years old. He was the first black player selected to the United
States Davis Cup team, and remains the only Black man to win the
singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, or Australian Open. He is
one of only two men of black African ancestry to win any Grand
Slam singles title, the other being France's Yannick Noah, who won
the French Open in 1983. He also led the United States to victory
for three consecutive years (1968-70) in the Davis Cup. He retired
in 1980. He was ranked world No. 1 by Rex Bellamy, Bud Collins,
Judith Elian, Lance Tingay, World Tennis and Tennis Magazine
(U.S.) in 1975. In 1975 Ashe was awarded the 'Martini and Rossi'
Award, voted for by a panel of journalists, and the ATP Player of
the Year award. In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No. 2
in May 1976. Ashe is believed to have contracted HIV from a blood
transfusion he received during heart bypass surgery for congenital
heart disease in 1983. He publicly announced his illness in April
1992 and began working to educate others about HIV and AIDS. He
founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS and the
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health before his death from
AIDS-related pneumonia at the age of 49 in New York City. He is
buried in Woodland Cemetery at East Highland Park, Virginia. Two
weeks after his death, on June 20, 1993, he was posthumously
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July 10, 1962: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism
In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Black
Suffrage (Black Political Franchise, Black Franchise, Black Right
To Vote, Black Active Suffrage): Civil Rights Protests: Civil
Rights Protests In The United States: The Albany Movement: --
Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested during a desegregation and
voters' rights demonstration in Albany, Georgia. King was
sentenced to either 45 days in jail or a 178 USD fine; he chose
jail. Three days into his sentence, Chief Pritchett discreetly
arranged for King's fine to be paid and ordered his release. "We
had witnessed persons being kicked off lunch counter stools during
the sit-ins, ejected from churches during the kneel-ins, and
thrown into jail during the Freedom Rides. But for the first time,
we witnessed being kicked out of jail." It later came to
light that it was prominent evangelist Billy Graham, a close
friend of King's who privately advised the SCLC, who bailed King
out of jail. The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voters'
rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. This
movement was founded by local black leaders and ministers, as well
as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP). The group were assisted by Martin Luther King Jr. and the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). It was meant to
draw attention to the brutally enforced racial segregation
practices in Southwest Georgia. However, many leaders in SNCC were
fundamentally opposed to King and the SCLC's involvement. They
felt that a more democratic approach aimed at long-term solutions
was preferable for the area other than King's tendency towards
short-term, authoritatively-run organizing. Although the Albany
Movement is deemed by some as a failure due to its unsuccessful
attempt at desegregating public spaces in Southwest Georgia, those
most directly involved in the movement tend to disagree. People
involved in this movement labeled it as a beneficial lesson in
strategy and tactics for the leaders of the civil rights movement
and a key component to the movement's future successes in
desegregation and policy changes in other areas of the Deep South.
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July 10, 1966: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Housing (Living
Spaces): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Housing
Discrimination In The United States: Desegregation In The United
States: The Chicago Freedom Movement: -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
leads a rally of The Chicago Freedom Movement at Soldier Field in
Chicago. Reports claim as many as 60,000 people attended;
according to a UPI news story that ran the next day, "About
35,000 persons jammed Chicago's Soldier Field for Dr. King's first
giant 'freedom rally' since bringing his civil rights organizing
tactics to the city...". Other guests included Mahalia
Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter, Paul and Mary. The Chicago
Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago Open Housing Movement,
the most ambitious civil rights campaign in the American North and
largely responsible for inspiring the 1968 Fair Housing Act, was
led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby, and lasted
from mid-1965 to August 1966. It was supported by the
Chicago-based Coordinating Council of Community Organizations
(CCCO) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
The movement included a large rally, marches, and demands to the
City of Chicago. These specific demands covered a wide range of
areas besides open housing, and included quality education,
transportation and job access, income and employment, health,
wealth generation, crime and the criminal justice system,
community development, tenants rights, and quality of life. During
that spring, several white couple/black couple tests of real
estate offices uncovered racial steering: discriminatory
processing of housing requests by couples who were exact matches
in income, background, number of children, and other attributes.
In protest, several large marches were planned and executed: in
Bogan, Belmont Cragin, Jefferson Park, Evergreen Park (a suburb
southwest of Chicago), Gage Park, Marquette Park, and others. King
was hit by a brick during one march, but continued to lead marches
in the face of personal danger. When King and his allies returned
to the South, they left Jesse Jackson, a seminary student who had
previously joined the movement in the South, in charge of their
organization. Jackson continued their struggle for civil rights by
organizing the Operation Breadbasket Movement, which sought to
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July 10, 1927: #BOTD: #HBD! David
Dinkins, African American politician, lawyer, and author who
served as the 106th Mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993,
becoming the first African American to hold the office (d.
November 23, 2020) is #born David Norman Dinkins in Trenton, New
Jersey. Before entering politics, Dinkins was among the more than
20,000 Montford Point Marines, the first African American U.S.
Marines; he served from 1945 to 1946. He graduated cum laude from
Howard University and received his law degree from Brooklyn Law
School in 1956. A longtime member of Harlem's Carver Democratic
Club, Dinkins began his electoral career by serving in the New
York State Assembly in 1966, eventually advancing to Manhattan
borough president before becoming mayor. After leaving office,
Dinkins joined the faculty of Columbia University while remaining
active in municipal politics. David Dinkins died from unspecified
natural causes at his home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, at
age 93, just over a month after the death of his wife, Joyce. He
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July 9-10, 1943: The European Civil War:
World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of
World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World
War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of
Italy): The Allied Invasion Of Sicily (The Battle Of Sicily,
Operation Husky): The Battle Of Gela (1943): -- The Allied
Invasion of Italy begins with an attack on the island of Sicily.
The opening engagement of the American portion of the Allied
Invasion Of Sicily occurs as the United States Navy ships lands
United States Army troops along the eastern end of the south coast
of Sicily, who withstood attacks by Luftwaffe and Regia
Aeronautica aircraft while defending the beachhead against German
tanks and Italian tanks of the Livorno Division until the Army
captured the Ponte Olivo Airfield for use by United States Army
Air Forces planes. The battle convinced United States Army
officers of the value of naval artillery support, and revealed
problems coordinating air support from autonomous air forces
during amphibious operations. General Dwight D. Eisenhower labeled
the invasion "the first page in the liberation of the
European Continent"; the British entry into Syracuse, Sicily
was the first Allied success in Europe. The day before, the
commencement of the Allied invasion of Sicily caused the downfall
of Mussolini and forced Hitler to break off the Battle Of Kursk.
On July 5, 1943, an Allied invasion fleet secretly set sail for
Sicily, ultimately to commence Operation Husky, which began on the
night of July 9-10, 1954. It was a major campaign of World War II,
in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers
(Italy and Nazi Germany). It began with a large amphibious and
airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign, and
initiated the Italian Campaign. Husky began on the night of 9-10
July 1943, and ended on 17 August. Strategically, Husky achieved
the goals set out for it by Allied planners; the Allies drove Axis
air, land and naval forces from the island and the Mediterranean
sea lanes were opened for Allied merchant ships for the first time
since 1941. The Italian leader, Benito Mussolini, was toppled from
power in Italy and the way was opened for the Allied invasion of
Italy. The German leader, Adolf Hitler, canceled a major offensive
at Kursk after only a week, in part to divert forces to Italy,
resulting in a reduction of German strength on the Eastern Front.
The Allies had foreknowledge of the German intentions regarding
Kursk, provided in part by the British intelligence service's
overall intelligence gatherings and their cryptanalysis of
intercepted Lorenz cipher German Army communications, known as
Tunny Intercepts, co-called because British cryptanalysts, who
referred to encrypted German teleprinter traffic as Fish, dubbed
the machine and its traffic Tunny (meaning tunafish). Aware
thereby months in advance that an attack would fall on the neck of
the Kursk salient, the Allies concluded that an invasion of
Sicily, and the collapse of Italy that might potentionally result,
timed to occur at the same time that the Germans planned to launch
the Battle Of Kursk would require German troops to be diverted
from the battle to replace the Italians in Italy and to a lesser
extent the Balkans. Accordingly, Adolf Hitler was forced to have
troops training in France to be a strategic reserve for the
Eastern Front diverted to meet the Allied threat in the
Mediterranean, and one fifth of the entire German army was
diverted from the east to southern Europe, a proportion that would
remain until near the end of the war. Germany's extensive losses
of men and tanks in the Battle Of Kursk ensured that the
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July 10, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The Cold
War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of 1989
(The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The Socialist
Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): Russia: The History Of Russia: Elections
In Russia: The 1991 Russian Presidential Election: -- As a result
of his June 12, 1991 election, Boris Yeltsin takes office as the
first elected President of Russia. Yeltsin came to power with a
wave of high expectations not long before the Soviet Union's
collapse. In May 1990, he was elected as chairman of the Supreme
Soviet (parliament) of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist
Republic (SFSR) - the highest state office - and thus became the
head of state. As a result of the creation of the post of
President of the Soviet Union, the Union republics also began to
introduce the post of President. To do this, a referendum was held
in the Russian SFSR, in which 71% of voters voted for the creation
of the post of President, elected in direct elections. On June 12,
1991 Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian SFSR with 57% of
the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president. However,
Yeltsin never recovered his popularity after a series of economic
and political crises in Russia in the 1990s. The Yeltsin era was
marked by widespread corruption, economic collapse, and enormous
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July 10, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! David
Brinkley, American journalist and author (d. June 11, 2003) is
#born David McClure Brinkley in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was
an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from
1943 to 1997. From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's
top-rated nightly news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, with
Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator
on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the
1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week
with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on
election-night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his
career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster
Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal Of Freedom. David
Brinkley died aged 82 at his home in Houston, Texas from
complications of a fall suffered at his vacation home in Jackson
Hole, Wyoming, according to his son, John Brinkley. His body is
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July 10, 1964: Aesthetics: The Performing
Arts: Music: Music History: The History Of Rock And Roll (Rock &
Roll, Rock-N-Roll, Rock 'N' Roll, Rock 'N Roll, Rock N' Roll):
British Rock And Roll (British Rock & Roll, British
Rock-N-Roll, British Rock 'N' Roll, British Rock 'N Roll, British
Rock N' Roll): The Swinging Sixties: British Rock (Beat Music,
British Beat, Merseybeat): The Swinging Sixties: British Rock
(Beat Music, British Beat, Merseybeat): The British Invasion: The
Beatles: Record Releases: -- The UK version of the English rock
band the Beatles album A Hard Day's Night released in the UK by
Parlophone. The American version of the album had been released
two weeks earlier, on June 26, 1964 by United Artists Records,
with a different track listing that included selections from
George Martin's film score. It was the Beatles' third studio
album, with side one containing songs from the soundtrack to their
film of the same name. In contrast to the Beatles' first two
albums, all 13 tracks on A Hard Day's Night were written by John
Lennon and Paul McCartney, showcasing the development of their
songwriting partnership. The album includes the song "A Hard
Day's Night", with its distinctive opening chord, and "Can't
Buy Me Love", both transatlantic number-one singles for the
band. Several of the songs feature George Harrison playing a
Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar, a sound that was
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July 10, 1926: #BOTD: #HBD! Fred Gwynne,
American actor, artist and author, best known for his roles in the
1960s sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and as Herman Munster in The
Munsters, as well as his later roles in The Cotton Club, Pet
Sematary and My Cousin Vinny (d. July 2, 1993) is #born Frederick
Hubbard Gwynne in New York City, the son of Frederick Walker
Gwynne, a partner in the securities firm Gwynne Brothers, and his
wife Dorothy Ficken Gwynne, who, before her marriage, was a
successful artist known for her "Sunny Jim" comic
character to promote Force cereal, the first commercially
successful wheat flake breakfast cereal. Fred Gwynne attended the
Groton School, a selective private Episcopal college preparatory
boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, which includes
many famous alumni in business, government and the professions,
including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During World War
II, Gwynne served in the United States Navy as a radioman on a
submarine chaser. In the 1940s, Gwynne was a summertime swimming
instructor at the Duxbury Yacht Club pool in Duxbury,
Massachusetts. He later studied art under the G.I. Bill before
attending Harvard, where he was affiliated with Adams House,
graduating in 1951. He was a member of the Fly Club, sang with the
a cappella group the Harvard Krokodiloes, was a cartoonist for the
Harvard Lampoon (eventually becoming its president), and acted for
the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a theatrical student society at
Harvard University. Gwynne was 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall, an
attribute that contributed to his being cast as Herman Munster, a
goofy parody of Frankenstein's monster, in the sitcom The
Munsters. Fred Gwynne died of complications from pancreatic
cancer, in the cigar room at his home in Taneytown, Maryland
onJuly 2, 1993, eight days short of his 67th birthday. He is
buried at Sandy Mount United Methodist Church Cemetery in
Finksburg, Maryland. Gwynne retained fond recollections of Herman,
saying in later life, "I might as well tell you the truth. I
love old Herman Munster. Much as I try not to, I can't stop liking
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(#JCKaelin here: Neat anecdote: #BobDylan
once asked #PopsStaples for his daughter #MavisStaple's hand in
marriage; she turned him down, but they have remained good friends
:D ) ========= July 10, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Mavis Staples, African
American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil
rights activist, is #born in Chicago, Illinois. She has recorded
and performed with her family's band The Staple Singers and also
as a solo artist. She began her career with her family group in
1950. Initially singing locally at churches and appearing on a
weekly radio show, the Staples scored a hit in 1956 with "Uncloudy
Day" for the Vee-Jay label. When Mavis graduated from what is
now Paul Robeson High School in 1957, The Staple Singers took
their music on the road. Led by family patriarch Roebuck "Pops"
Staples on guitar and including the voices of Mavis and her
siblings Cleotha, Yvonne, and Pervis, the Staples were called
"God's Greatest Hitmakers". With Mavis' voice and Pops'
songs, singing, and guitar playing, the Staples evolved from
enormously popular gospel singers (with recordings on United and
Riverside as well as Vee-Jay) to become the most spectacular and
influential spirituality-based group in America. By the mid-1960s
The Staple Singers, inspired by Pops' close friendship with Martin
Luther King, Jr., became the spiritual and musical voices of the
civil rights movement. They covered contemporary pop hits with
positive messages, including Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's
a-Gonna Fall" and a version of Stephen Stills' "For What
It's Worth". During a December 20, 2008, appearance on
National Public Radio's news show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!,
when Staples was asked about her past personal relationship with
Dylan, she admitted that they "were good friends, yes indeed"
and that he had asked her father for her hand in marriage; she
turned him down. The Staples sang "message" songs like
"Long Walk to D.C." and "When Will We Be Paid?,"
bringing their moving and articulate music to a huge number of
young people. The group signed to Stax Records in 1968, joining
their gospel harmonies and deep faith with musical accompaniment
from members of Booker T. and the MGs. The Staple Singers hit the
Top 40 eight times between 1971 and 1975, including two No. 1
singles, "I'll Take You There", produced by Al Bell and
recorded and mixed by Terry Manning, "Let's Do It Again,"
and a No. 2 single "Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas?".
During her career, Staples has appeared in many films and
television shows, including The Last Waltz, Graffiti Bridge,
Wattstax, New York Undercover, Songs of Praise, Soul Train, Soul
to Soul, The Psychiatrist, and The Cosby Show. Staples performed
the title theme song for 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation. Mavis!, the first feature documentary about Staples and
the Staple Singers, directed by Jessica Edwards, had its world
premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March
2015.[13] Mavis! screened in theaters and was broadcast on HBO in
February 2016. On September 8, 2015, Staples was a featured
performer on the premiere episode of The Late Show with Stephen
Colbert, during which Stephen Colbert thanked her personally for
appearing. Staples was briefly married to Spencer Leak in 1964;
they divorced when Staples would not end her music career to stay
home. She has no children. Staples was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017. On
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July 10, 1997: Evolution: The Theory Of
Evolution: Evolution Of Primates: Human Evolution (Anthropogeny,
Anthropogenesis, Anthropogony): Anthropology: Paleoanthropology:
Human Evolution: The Out Of Africa Theory (OOA) (The Recent
African Origin Of Modern Humans): Mitochondrial Eve (African Eve):
-- Scientists issue a report from London that the findings of the
DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "Out
Of Africa Theory" of human evolution, placing an "African
Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. The mitochondrial clade
(also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, a group of
organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its
descendants) which Mitochondrial Eve defines is the species Homo
Sapiens Sapiens (the Modern Humans of today, as distinguished from
Modern Humans generally), or at least the current population or
"chronospecies" as it exists today. In principle,
earlier Eves can also be defined going beyond the species, for
example one who is ancestral to both modern humanity and
Neanderthals, or, further back, an "Eve" ancestral to
all members of genus Homo and chimpanzees in genus Pan. According
to current nomenclature, Mitochondrial Eve's haplogroup was within
mitochondrial Haplogroup L (L) because this macro-haplogroup
contains all surviving human mitochondrial lineages today, and she
must predate the emergence its two sub-clades of Haplogroup L0
(L0) and Haplogroup L1-6 (L1-6). The Recent African Origin Of
Modern Humans (The Out Of Africa Theory [OOA]) is the most widely
accepted paleo-anthropological model of the geographic origin and
early migration of anatomically modern humans (Homo Sapiens). It
follows the early expansions of hominins out of Africa,
accomplished by Homo erectus and then Homo neanderthalensis. The
model proposes a "single origin" of Homo sapiens in the
taxonomic sense, precluding parallel evolution in other regions of
traits considered anatomically modern, but not precluding multiple
admixture between H. sapiens and archaic humans in Europe and
Asia. H. sapiens most likely developed in the Horn of Africa
between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago, although an alternative
hypothesis argues that diverse morphological features of H.
sapiens appeared locally in different parts of Africa and
converged due to gene flow between different populations within
the same period. The "Recent African Origin" model
proposes that all modern non-African populations are substantially
descended from populations of H. sapiens that left Africa after
that time. There were at least several "out-of-Africa"
dispersals of modern humans, possibly beginning as early as
270,000 years ago, including 215,000 years ago to at least Greece,
and certainly via northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula about
130,000 to 115,000 years ago. There is evidence that modern humans
had reached China around 80,000 years ago. Practically all of
these early waves seem to have gone extinct or retreated back, and
present-day humans outside Africa descend mainly from a single
expansion about 70,000-50,000 years ago, via the so-called
"Southern Route". These humans spread rapidly along the
coast of Asia and reached Australia by around 65,000-50,000 years
ago, (though some researchers question the earlier Australian
dates and place the arrival of humans there at 50,000 years ago at
earliest, while others have suggested that these first settlers of
Australia may represent an older wave before the more significant
out of Africa migration and thus not necessarily be ancestral to
the region's later inhabitants) while Europe was populated by an
early offshoot which settled the Near East and Europe less than
55,000 years ago. In the 2010s, studies in population genetics
uncovered evidence of interbreeding that occurred between H.
sapiens and archaic humans in Eurasia, Oceania and Africa,
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( #JCKaelin here: Most Western Baby
Boomers know Meher Baba's name from the Who Song "Baba
O'Riley", commonly known as "Teenage Wasteland";
Pete Townend came up with the name "Baba O'Riley" as a
combination of the names of two of Townshend's philosophical and
musical influences: guru Meher Baba and composer Terry Riley.)
========= July 10, 1925: Silence Day: -- Meher Baba begins his
silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this
date in commemoration. Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master who
claimed he was an Avatar (God in human form) (d. 1969) was born
Merwan Sheriar Irani on February 25, 1894 in Poona, India, to
Irani Zoroastrian parents. His spiritual transformation began when
he was 19 years old and lasted for seven years. During this time
he contacted five spiritual teachers before beginning his own
mission and gathering his own disciples in early 1922, at the age
of 27. From 10 July 1925 to the end of his life, Meher Baba
maintained silence, communicating by means of an alphabet board or
by unique hand gestures. With his mandali (circle of disciples),
he spent long periods in seclusion, during which time he often
fasted. He also traveled widely, held public gatherings, and
engaged in works of charity with lepers and the poor. In 1931,
Meher Baba made the first of many visits to the West, where he
attracted followers. Throughout most of the 1940s, Meher Baba
worked with a category of spiritual aspirants called masts, who he
said are entranced or spellbound by internal spiritual
experiences. Starting in 1949, along with selected mandali, he
traveled incognito about India in an enigmatic and still largely
unexplained period he called the "New Life". After being
injured as a passenger in two serious automobile accidents, one
near Prague, Oklahoma in the United States in 1952 and one in
India in 1956, his ability to walk became severely limited. In
1962, he invited his Western followers to India for a mass darshan
called "The East-West Gathering". Concerned by an
increasing use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, in 1966 Baba
stated that they did not convey real benefits. Despite
deteriorating health, he continued what he called his "Universal
Work", which included fasting and seclusion, until his death
on 31 January 1969. His samadhi (shrine/tomb) in Meherabad, India,
has become a place of international pilgrimage. Meher Baba gave
numerous teachings on the cause and purpose of life, including
teaching reincarnation and that the phenomenal world is an
illusion. He taught that the Universe is imagination, that God is
what really exists, and that each soul is really God passing
through imagination to realize individually his own divinity. In
addition he gave practical advice for the aspirant who wishes to
attain God-realization and thereby escape the wheel of births and
deaths. He also taught about the concept of Perfect Masters, the
Avatar, and those on the various stages of the spiritual path that
he called involution. His most important teachings are recorded in
his principal books Discourses and God Speaks. His legacy includes
the Avatar Meher Baba Charitable Trust he established in India, a
handful of centres for information and pilgrimage, as well as an
influence on pop-culture artists and the introduction of common
expressions such as "Don't Worry, Be Happy." Meher
Baba's silence has remained a mysterious issue among some of his
followers.
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1917: #BOTD: #HBD! Don Herbert,
creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951-65, 1971-72) and Mr.
Wizard's World (1983-90) (d. June 12, 2007) is #born Donald
Herbert Kemske in Waconia, Minnesota. Donald Jeffry Herbert's
Watch Mr. Wizard and Mr. Wizard's World were educational
television programs for children devoted to science and
technology. He also produced many short video programs about
science and authored several popular books about science for
children. It was said that no fictional hero was able to rival the
popularity and longevity of "the friendly, neighborly
scientist". In Herbert's obituary, Bill Nye wrote, "Herbert's
techniques and performances helped create the United States' first
generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond
to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world."
Herbert is credited with turning "a generation of youth"
in the 1950s and early 1960s on to "the promise and perils of
science". Herbert was a general science and English major at
the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (then called La Crosse State
Teachers College) who was interested in drama. His career as an
actor was interrupted by World War II when he enlisted in the
United States Army as a Private. Herbert later joined the United
States Army Air Forces, took pilot training, and became a B-24
bomber pilot who flew 56 combat missions from Italy with the 767th
Bomb Squadron, 461st Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force. When
Herbert was discharged in 1945 he was a Captain and had earned the
Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf
clusters. Had the B-24 bomber he piloted been shot down, USAAF
Captain Donald Jeffry Herbert might never have been known to so
many American children after the war. As the fates would have it,
he won the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service over
Fortress Europe and he got to come home to fulfill his life's
ambition, theatrical work. He landed choice acting assignments on
a number of popular radio kid shows such as Captain Midnight, Jack
Armstrong and Tom Mix. But it was on the fledgling medium of
television that he was to make his indelible mark as a pioneer in
childrens program, as he brought his vision of science education
entertainment to pre-teen viewers in 1951 in the form of Watch Mr.
Wizard. It became a hit, and for decades afterwards, Don Herbert
was to educate children about the wonders of science through the
venue of this show in its several manifestations on different
networks. Utilizing imaginitive animated models, hands-on
demonstrations, practical and creative experiments and many other
thought-provoking devices to make Don's lessons both fun and
easy-to-understand, this series has much to teach us today about
engaging the kid in all of us in the continual love of learning.
Don Herbert died of multiple myeloma and bone cancer at his home
in Bell Canyon, California, aged 89. His remains were cremated,
and his ashes scattered at a location not publicly disclosed. In
Herbert's obituary, Bill Nye "The Science Guy" wrote,
"If any of you reading now have been surprised and happy to
learn a few things about science watching "Bill Nye the
Science Guy," keep in mind, it all started with Don Herbert."
Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, principals of the television
program MythBusters, have been described as being "reverent"
of Herbert's work as Mr. Wizard. Five months after Herbert died,
MythBusters aired a two-hour episode entitled "Special
Super-sized Myths" "Dedicated to Mr. Wizard".
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 138: #DOTD: #RIP: Hadrian
(Latin: Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus), Roman emperor from 117 to 138
(b. January 24, 76) #dies aged 62 of heart failure at Baiae, an
ancient Roman town situated on the northwest shore of the Gulf of
Naples and now in the comune of Bacoli, Naples. He is buried at
Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his beautiful late wife, Vibia
Sabina. The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel
Sant'Angelo (Castle of the Holy Angel), is a towering cylindrical
building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. The building was later
used by the popes as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum.
The Castle was once the tallest building in Rome. Hadrian was born
Publius Aelius Hadrianus in Italica, close to modern Seville in
Spain, a small Roman municipium of Hispania Baetica founded by
Scipio as an Italic settlement; his branch of the Aelia gens, the
Aeli Hadriani, came from the town of Hadria. Hadrian was a member
of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty. Hadrian earned disapproval among
the elite by abandoning Trajan's expansionist policies and
territorial gains in Mesopotamia, Assyria, Armenia, and parts of
Dacia. Hadrian preferred to invest in the development of stable,
defensible borders and the unification of the empire's disparate
peoples. He is known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the
northern limit of Britannia, and for suppressing the Bar Kokhba
revolt in Judaea. He rebuilt the Pantheon and constructed the vast
Temple of Venus and Roma. In Egypt, he may have rebuilt the
Serapeum of Alexandria. He was an ardent admirer of Greece and
sought to make Athens the cultural capital of the Empire. His
intense homosexual relationship with the Greek youth Antinous and
the latter's untimely death led Hadrian to establish a widespread
cult in his honor late in his reign. Hadrian's last years were
marred by chronic illness. He adopted Antoninus Pius in 138 and
nominated him as a successor on the condition that Antoninus adopt
Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as his own heirs. Hadrian died
the same year at Baiae, and Antoninus had him deified, despite
opposition from the Senate. He is considered among the "Five
Good Emperors", while the senate has described him as
enigmatic and contradictory, with a capacity for both great
personal generosity and extreme cruelty and driven by insatiable
curiosity, self-conceit, and ambition.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: 150
Years Of Photography Hal Holbrook + Bonus Title DVD Video Download
Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1851: #DOTD: #RIP: Louis
Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, inventor of the
daguerreotype process of photography (b. November 18, 1787) #dies
from a heart attack in Bry-sur-Marne, 12 km (7 mi) from Paris. A
monument marks his grave there. Daguerre's name is one of the 72
names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Louis Daguerre was born
Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise,
France. In 1839, at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences,
he announced his daguerreotype process, the first practical
photographic process that produced lasting pictures. He permitted
the French government to announce that his photographic process
was a gift "free to the world". Recognized for this, he
became known as one of the fathers of photography. Though he is
most famous for his contributions to photography, he was also an
accomplished painter and a developer of the diorama theatre.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1873: The United States: The
History Of The United States: The National Flag Of The United
States: Old Glory: -- Mary Jane Roland, daughter of American sea
captain William Driver, recieves from her father the gift of "Old
Glory" on July 10, 1873, telling her "This is my old
ship flag Old Glory. I love it as a mother loves her child. Take
it and cherish it as I have always cherished it; for it has been
my steadfast friend and protector in all parts of the world -
savage, heathen and civilized." In honor of Driver's assuming
command at age 21 of his own ship, the Charles Doggett, Driver's
mother and other women sewed the flag and gave it to him as a gift
in 1824. It was believed that while leaving the harbor, the
Captain unfurled his new flag, calling out "Behold Old
Glory." With this flag flying over his ship, Driver went on
to have a colorful career as a U.S. merchant seaman, sailing to
China, India, Gibraltar, and the South Pacific. He participated in
the tortoiseshell trade and knew some Fijian. In 1831, while
voyaging in the South Pacific, Driver's ship "was the sole
surviving vessel of six that departed Salem the same day." In
Tahiti, where they withdrew because of illness, Driver picked up
the 65 descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, the sole
members of a race of mixed Tahitian and European ancestry
resultant from this mutiny, and brought them back to Pitcairn
Island, where to this day many inhabitants are descendants of
those rescued - anoteworthy act that helped publicize Driver's
nickname for the flag. Driver was convinced that God saved his
ship to rescue this islander race. Driver retired from seafaring
in 1837 after his wife Martha Silsbee Babbage died from throat
cancer, leaving a 34-years-old Driver with their three young
children to care for. He settled in Nashville, Tennessee, where
his three brothers operated a store. Driver remarried the next
year to Sarah Jane Parks, a Southerner with whom he had several
more children. Driver took his flag to Nashville, flying it on
holidays, rain or shine. The flag was so large that he attached it
to a rope from his attic window and stretched it on a pulley
across the street to secure it to a locust tree. Driver worked as
a salesman and served as vestryman of Christ Episcopal Church. In
1860, Driver, his wife, and daughters repaired the flag, sewing on
ten additional stars. Driver added by applique a small white
anchor in the lower right corner to symbolize his maritime career.
By that time, the secession crisis had begun, and Driver's family
was split. While Driver was a staunch Unionist, two of his sons
were fervent Confederates who enlisted in local regiments. One of
those sons died from wounds suffered at Battle of Perryville. In
March 1862, Driver wrote: "Two sons in the army of the South!
My entire house estranged... and when I come home... no one to
soothe me." Soon after Tennessee seceded from the Union,
Tennessee Governor Isham G. Harris, the person most responsible
for leading Tennessee out of the Union and aligning it with the
Confederacy, sent men to Driver's home to demand the flag. Driver,
58 years old, turned the men away at his door after demanding they
produce a search warrant. An armed group returned to Driver's
front porch, who refused to produce the flag, saying "If you
want my flag you'll have to take it over my dead body." To
save the flag from further threats, Driver and some of his
neighbors sewed it into a coverlet. They hid it until February
1862, when the Union victory at The Battle Of Fort Donelson caused
Nashville to fall to Union forces. When the Union Army, led by the
6th Ohio Infantry, entered the city, Driver went to Tennessee
state capitol after seeing the U.S. flag, and the 6th Ohio's
regimental colors raised on the Capitol flagstaffand asked to see
the general in command. Horace Fisher, the aide-de-camp to the
Union commander in the city, Brigadier General William "Bull"
Nelson, described Driver as "a stout, middle-aged man, with
hair well shot with gray, short in stature, broad in shoulder, and
with a roll in his gait." Introducing himself as a sea
captain and Unionist, Driver brought the coverlet with him and
opened it, revealing the flag. Nelson accepted the flag and
ordered it run up on the Capitol flagstaff. The 6th Ohio later
adopted the motto "Old Glory." That night, a violent
storm threatened to tear the flag, so Driver replaced it with a
newer flag, taking the original Old Glory for safekeeping. The
flag remained in his home until December 1864, when the Battle Of
Nashville was fought. As Confederate troopers under the command of
John Bell Hood sought to retake the city, Driver hung the flag out
of the third-story window and left to join the city's defense. For
the rest of the American Civil War, Driver served as Provost
Marshal (a person in charge of Military Police (MPs) of Nashville,
serving in hospitals. Driver died in Nashville on March 3, 1886
aged 82, and was buried in the Nashville City Cemetery, where, at
Driver's request, his rescue of the Bounty descendants is noted on
his grave stone. Following Driver's death, a family feud erupted
over the ownership of the flag. Driver's niece, Harriet Ruth
Waters Cooke, the daughter of Driver's youngest sister, said she
inherited the flag and presented her version of Old Glory to the
Essex Institute in Salem, which became the Peabody Essex Museum,
thereafter dubbing that flag "The Peabody Flag". Cooke
published a family memoir in 1889, omitting any mention of Mary
Jane Roland. Roland wrote an account of the flag, known now as
"The Roland Flag", publishing Old Glory, The True Story
in 1918. In that memoir, Roland disputed Cooke's narrative. Shee
presented evidence for her claim that the flag she owned was the
true Old Glory. In 1922, Roland gave her Old Glory to President
Warren G. Harding. Harding had the flag sent to the Smithsonian
Institution. The same year, the Peabody Essex Museum sent its Old
Glory to the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Institution concluded
the Roland flag is the authentic Old Glory, since documentary
evidence in the Tennessee State Library and Archives suggests it
was the one hidden in the quilt and presented to Union troops who
took Nashville. The Roland flag is 17x10 feet. The Peabody flag is
12x6 feet. This conclusion has been validated as recently as 2012,
when a conservation evaluation of both flags by NMAH curator
Jennifer Locke Jones and Thomassen-Krauss began. They concluded
that larger Roland flag has the stronger claim to being the
original Old Glory' the Roland Old Glory is heavily worn on the
fly edges, consistent with the wear of a seagoing flag.
Accordingly, The Roland Flag remains at the National Museum Of
American History.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: John
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1987: #DOTD: #RIP: John Hammond,
American record producer, critic, and civil rights activist
(December 15, 1910) #dies after a series of strokes brought on by
the death of his beloved wife of AIDS contracted during a blood
transfusion received during her treatment for breast cancer. It is
said that he died listening to the music of his protege and muse
Billie Holiday. He is buried at The Vanderbilt Family Cemetery And
Mausoleum in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, New York
City. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law
Olmsted in the late 19th century, when the Vanderbilt family was
the wealthiest in America. John Hammond was born John Henry
Hammond II in New York City, the youngest child and only son of
John Henry Hammond and Emily Vanderbilt Sloane of the powerful
Vanderbilt and Sloane families. During his career which spanned
the the 1930s to the early 1980s, his service as a talent scout,
he became one of the most influential figures in 20th century
popular music. Hammond was instrumental in sparking or furthering
numerous musical careers, including those of Bob Dylan, Bruce
Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Christian, Billie
Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger,
Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Freddie Green,
Leonard Cohen, Arthur Russell, Jim Copp, Asha Puthli, Stevie Ray
Vaughan and Mike Bloomfield. He is also largely responsible for
the revival of delta blues artist Robert Johnson's music.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1941: #DOTD: #RIP: Jelly Roll
Morton, African American jazz pioneer, pianist, composer, and
bandleader (Red Hot Peppers and New Orleans Rhythm Kings) (b. c.
September 20, 1890) #dies aged 50 after an eleven-day stay in Los
Angeles County General Hospital of respiratory illness stemming
from a 1938 stabbing by a friend of the owner of The Music Box
(called, at various times, The Music Box, The Blue Moon Inn, and
The Jungle Inn), a bar Morton managed and played piano in, in the
African American neighborhood of Shaw, Washington, D.C.. Morton
suffered wounds to the head and chest in the attack. A nearby
whites-only hospital refused to treat him, as the city had
racially segregated facilities. He was transported to a black
hospital farther away. When he was in the hospital, doctors left
ice on his wounds for several hours before attending to the
injury. His recovery from his wounds was incomplete, and
thereafter he was often ill and became short of breath easily.
After this incident, his wife Mabel demanded they leave
Washington. Worsening asthma sent him to a hospital in New York
for three months. He continued to suffer from respiratory problems
when he travelled to Los Angeles with the intent to restart his
career, where he died. He is buried at Calvary Cemetery in East
Los Angeles, California. Jelly Roll Morton was born Ferdinand
Joseph LaMothe into the Creole community in the Faubourg Marigny
neighborhood of New Orleans around 1890; he claimed to have been
born in 1885. Both parents traced their Creole ancestry four
generations to the 18th century. Morton's birth date and year of
birth are uncertain, given that no birth certificate was ever
issued for him. The law requiring birth certificates for citizens
was not enforced until 1914. His parents were Edward Joseph
(Martin) Lamothe, a bricklayer and occasional trombonist, and
Louise Hermance Monette, a domestic worker. His father left his
mother when Morton was three (they were never married). When his
mother married William Mouton in 1894, Ferdinand adopted his
stepfather's surname, anglicizing it to Morton. Jelly Roll Morton
started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana. Widely recognized as
a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as
jazz' first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation
could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when
notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues", published
in 1915, was the first published jazz composition. Morton also
wrote the standards "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine
Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I
Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last a tribute to New Orleans
musicians from the turn of the 20th century. Morton' claim to have
invented jazz in 1902 aroused resentment. The jazz historian,
musician, and composer Gunther Schuller says of Morton'
"hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to
the contrary" and that Morton' "considerable
accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation".
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1972: #DOTD: #RIP: Emrys Jones,
English actor of Welsh heritage (b. September 22, 1915) #dies of a
heart attack aged 56 in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was
in a stage production, playing Winston Churchill. His burial
details are not publicly available. He was born John Emrys
Whittaker Jones in Manchester, England. After making his stage
debut in Donald Wolfit's company in 1937, his film debut came in
Powell and Pressburger's One of Our Aircraft Is Missing in 1942,
and he began to develop a career in the British cinema of the
1940s. Due to his boyish looks he would often be cast as young
innocents in films such as The Wicked Lady (1945), The Rake's
Progress (1945), Nicholas Nickleby (1947), and Powell and
Pressburger's The Small Back Room (1949). When he was relegated to
second features in the 1950s he concentrated on his stage career,
maturing into an accomplished character actor in the process. The
latter half of his career was mostly spent on television in such
programmes as Softly, Softly, Out of the Unknown, Dixon of Dock
Green, Doomwatch, Z-Cars, Special Branch, and as 'The Master Of
The Land Of Fiction' in the Doctor Who serial The Mind Robber
(1968). He was married to actresses Pauline Bentley and Anne
Ridler.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Roger Rees,
Welsh actor and director, widely known for his stage work (b. May
5, 1944) #dies of brain cancer at age 71 at his home in New York
City. On Wednesday, July 15, 2015, the marquee lights at all the
theatres on Broadway were dimmed in his honour. His ashes were
scattered in the Atlantic Ocean. Two months later, there was a
memorial service for him at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre. On
November 16, 2015, Rees was posthumously inducted into the
Broadway Theatre Hall of Fame. Roger Rees was born in Aberystwyth,
Cardiganshire, Wales. He won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for
his performance as the lead in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas
Nickleby. He also received Obie Awards for his role in The End of
the Day and as co-director of Peter and the Starcatcher. Rees was
posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in
November 2015. He was widely known to American television
audiences for playing the characters Robin Colcord in Cheers and
Lord John Marbury in The West Wing. Americans also know him as the
Sheriff of Rottingham in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Terry-Thomas,
English comedian and character actor who became internationally
known through his films during the 1950s and 1960s (d. January 8,
1990) is #born Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens in London, England. He
often portrayed disreputable members of the upper classes,
especially cads, toffs and bounders, using his distinctive voice;
his costume and props tended to include a monocle, waistcoat and
cigarette holder. His striking dress sense was set off by a
1/3-inch (8.5 mm) gap between his two upper front teeth.
Terry-Thomas made his film debut, uncredited, in The Private Life
of Henry VIII (1933). He spent several years appearing in smaller
roles, before wartime service with Entertainments National Service
Association (ENSA) and Stars in Battledress. The experience helped
sharpen his cabaret and revue act, increased his public profile
and proved instrumental in the development of his successful comic
stage routine. On his demobilisation, he starred in Piccadilly
Hayride on the London stage and was the star of the first comedy
series on British television, How Do You View? (1949). He appeared
on various BBC Radio shows, and made a successful transition into
British films. His most creative period was the 1950s when he
appeared in Private's Progress (1956), The Green Man (1956), Blue
Murder at St Trinian's (1957), I'm All Right Jack (1959) and
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959). From the early 1960s
Terry-Thomas began appearing in American films, coarsening his
already unsubtle screen character in films such as Bachelor Flat
(1962), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) and How to Murder
Your Wife (1965). From the mid-1960s on he also frequently starred
in European films, in roles such as Sir Reginald in the successful
French film La Grande Vadrouille. In 1971 Terry-Thomas was
diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, which slowly brought his
career to a conclusion; his last film role was in 1980. He spent
much of his fortune on medical treatment and, shortly before his
death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors'
Benevolent Fund. In 1989 a charity gala was held in his honour,
which raised sufficient funds for him to live his remaining time
at Busbridge Hall nursing home in Godalming, Surrey, England.
Terry-Thomas died of Parkinson's at Busbridge Hall at the age of
78. The funeral service was held at St. John The Baptist Church,
Busbridge, Surrey, England, where the theme from Those Magnificent
Men in their Flying Machines was played; he was cremated at
Guildford Crematorium, and the ashes were buried at St. Peter's
Churchyard in Combe Martin, Devon, England.
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 2015: #DOTD: #RIP: Omar Sharif,
Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's
greatest male film stars (b. April 10, 1932) #dies after suffering
a heart attack at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt. Sharif's funeral was
held on July 12 at the Grand Mosque of Mushir Tantawi in eastern
Cairo. The funeral was attended by a group of Sharif's relatives,
friends and Egyptian actors, his coffin draped in the Egyptian
flag and a black shroud. His coffin was later taken to the
El-Sayeda Nafisa cemetery in southern Cairo, where he was buried.
Omar Sharif was born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub in Alexandria,
Kingdom of Egypt (now Arab Republic of Egypt), to a Melkite
Catholic family of Lebanese descent, making him and his family
members of the Antiochian Greek Christian minority (also known as
Rum). He began his career in his native country in the 1950s, but
is best known for his appearances in British, American, French,
and Italian productions. His career encompassed over 100 films
spanning 50 years, and brought him many accolades including three
Golden Globe Awards and a Cesar Award for Best Actor. Sharif
played opposite Peter O'Toole as Sherif Ali in the David Lean epic
Lawrence of Arabia (1962), which earned him an Academy Award
nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and portrayed the title role
in Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965), earning him the Golden Globe for
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama. He continued to play romantic
leads, in films like Funny Girl (1968) and The Tamarind Seed
(1974), and historical figures like the eponymous characters in
Genghis Khan (1965) and Che! (1969). His acting career continued
well into old age, with a well-received turn as a Muslim Turkish
immigrant in the French film Monsieur Ibrahim (2003). He made his
final film appearance in 2015, the year of his death. Sharif spoke
five languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian and Spanish. He
bridled at travel restrictions imposed by the government of
Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, leading to self-exile in
Europe. He was a lifelong horse racing enthusiast, and at one time
ranked among the world's top contract bridge players. He was the
recipient of high civil honors from multiple countries, including
the Egyptian Order of Merit and the French Legion of Honour. He
was one of only 25 grantees of UNESCO's Sergei Eisenstein Medal,
in recognition of his significant contributions to world film and
cultural diversity.
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1989: #DOTD: #RIP: Mel Blanc,
American voice actor, actor, radio comedian, and recording artist
(b. May 30, 1908) #dies after nearly two months at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center of complications from both emphysema and coronary
artery disease, aged 81. He is interred in Hollywood Forever
Cemetery section 13, Pinewood section, Plot #149 in Hollywood. As
specified in his will, his gravestone reads "That's all
folks" - the phrase with which Blanc's character, Porky Pig,
concluded Warner Bros. cartoons. Mel Blanc was born Melvin Jerome
Blank in San Francisco, California, to Eva (nee Katz), a
Lithuanian Jewish immigrant, and Frederick Blank, born in New York
to German Jewish parents. Mel Blanc is best remembered for his
work in animation as the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky
Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn
Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E.
Coyote, Road Runner, the Tasmanian Devil, and many of the other
characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical
cartoons during the golden age of American animation. He also was
a radio star and provided the voices of such characters as Private
Snafu in World War II propaganda cartoons.
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1553: The English Monarchy (The
Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): Royal Accessions: Successions
To The English Throne: -- Lady Jane Grey becomes Queen Of England.
She will be deposed by Mary I Of England ("Bloody Mary")
nine days later. Lady Jane Grey, also known as Lady Jane Dudley
(after her marriage) and as "the Nine Days' Queen", was
an English noblewoman and de facto Queen Of England and Ireland
from July 10 until July 19 1553. Jane was the great-granddaughter
of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary, and was a first
cousin once removed of Edward VI. She had an excellent humanist
education and a reputation as one of the most learned young women
of her day. In May 1553, she married Lord Guildford Dudley, a
younger son of Edward's chief minister John Dudley, Duke of
Northumberland. In June 1553, Edward VI wrote his will, nominating
Jane and her male heirs as successors to the Crown, in part
because his half-sister Mary was Roman Catholic, while Jane was a
committed Protestant and would support the reformed Church of
England, whose foundation Edward claimed to have laid. The will
removed his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, from the line of
succession on account of their illegitimacy, subverting their
claims under the Third Succession Act. After Edward's death, Jane
was proclaimed queen on July 10, 1553 and awaited coronation in
the Tower of London. Support for Mary grew very quickly, and most
of Jane's supporters abandoned her. The Privy Council of England
suddenly changed sides and proclaimed Mary as queen on July 19,
1553, deposing Jane. Her primary supporter, her father-in-law the
Duke of Northumberland, was accused of treason and executed less
than a month later. Jane was held prisoner in the Tower and was
convicted in November 1553 of high treason, which carried a
sentence of death - though Mary initially spared her life.
However, Jane soon became viewed as a threat to the Crown when her
father, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, got involved with Wyatt's
Rebellion against Queen Mary's intention to marry Philip II of
Spain. Both Jane and her husband were executed on February 12,
1554.
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Today, July 10, 2026July 10, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Joan Marsh,
American actress and beauty, child actress in silent films between
1915 and 1921 who during the sound era performed in a variety of
films during the 1930s and 1940s (d. August 10, 2000) is #born
Dorothy D. Rosher in Porterville California, the daughter of
Lolita and Charles Rosher. In 1915, Marsh made her first film
appearance, an uncredited one, in the short The Mad Maid of the
Forest, which her father was filming. Later that same year she was
also cast in Hearts Aflame and then billed as Dorothy Rosher. In
1917 she appeared too in A Little Princess and in no less than
five other productions in 1918, including the comedy-drama Women's
Weapons for Paramount Pictures. After these minor roles as a baby
and toddler, Marsh finally became a star in Mary Pickford films
such as Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) and Pollyanna (1920). Marsh made
her last film appearance as a child in 1921 but returned to films
nine years later with a role in King of Jazz, in which she sang
with Bing Crosby. She subsequently worked in a series of shorts
and other feature films before she played W. C. Fields's daughter
in You're Telling Me! in 1934. She continued performing on-screen
in small roles for the next decade. In 1936, she sang on the CBS
radio program Flying Red Horse Tavern. In 1931, Marsh was one of
13 actresses named as WAMPAS baby stars. She made her final film
appearance in 1944 in Follow the Leader. During the filming of
Charlie Chan on Broadway, Marsh met writer Charles Belden, who had
co-written the film's screenplay. They married on December 2,
1938, in Beverly Hills, California. Their marriage ended in
divorce in 1943 -- first in Los Angeles, California, on August 26,
1943, followed by a second divorce October 23, 1943, "so she
won't have to wait a year before remarrying" according to The
Long Beach Independent. Later that year, Marsh married Army
Captain John D. W. Morrill in Santa Monica, California. Marsh
later managed a stationery shop. She died at age 86 in Ojai,
California. Her remains were cremated, and her ashed were given to
her widow John Morrill.
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