July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 174 days remain until the end of the year.
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1778 – American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1890– Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. State.
1920 – Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1962 – Teslar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d’etat.
1985 – An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR’s worst-ever airline disaster.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected president of Russia.
1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
2000 – In the villages of Adeje and Oviri-Court in the Niger Delta, Over one hundred (100) people were burnt to death after a damaged gasoline pipe exploded.
2007 – Erden Eruc begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2008 – UN special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari resigned as chairman of a planned peace summit for the oil-rich Niger Delta following opposition from regional leaders.
