10 Julie

The **10t o Julie** is the 191t day o the year (192t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 174 days ti come.

## Events

* 138 - Roman Emperor Hadrian dees.
* 988 - Foondin date o the ceety o Dublin.
* 1584 - Dutch stadholder William the Silent is assassinatit in Delft.
* 1821 - The Unitit States taks possession o Florida frae Spain.
* 1890 - Wyoming became the 44t state o the Unitit States.
* 1908 - Dutch pheesicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes managed tae turn helium tae liquid.
* 1913 - The warld's hottest temperature is recordit in Death Valley, Californie, at 57 degrees Celsius.
* 1921 - Belfast's Bloody Sunday: 16 fowk are kilt in gun battles.
* 1931 - Norawa declares the annexation o "Erik Raudes Land" in Northeastren Greenland.
* 1940 - Vichy Fraunce replaces the French Third Republic.
* 1943 - Warld War II: The Allied invasion o Sicily stairts.
* 1949 - The German Fitbaw Association is re-foondit efter Warld War II.
* 1962 - The Telstar Communications Satellite is launched.
* 1967 - New Zealand decimalises its currency.
* 1973 - The Bahamas gain unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1985 - Environmental activist ship "Rainbow Warrior" wis torpedoed by French agents in Auckland, New Zealand.
* 2000 - Bashar al-Assad succeeds his deceased faither, Hafez al-Assad, as Preses o Sirie.
* 2000 - A splosion at an ile pipeline in Soothren Nigerie kills 250 fowk.
* 2006 - For the first time in kent-histerie, the poseetions o Prime meenister an Preses in a kintra are held bi twin brithers (Jaroslaw an Lech Kaczynski in Poland).
* 2011 - Roushie cruise ship "Bulgaria" sinks on the Volga, near Syakeyevo, Tatarstan.
* 2016 - Tennis: Andy Murray wins his seicont Wimbledon singles title.
* 2016 - Portugal wins UEFA Euro 2016, defeatin host naition Fraunce 1-0 in extra time.
* 2018 - Tham Luang cave rescue: The operation tae rescue 12 boys an thair fitbaw coach frae a cave in Northren Thailand is completit.
* 2019 - Kim Darroch demits as the Unitit Kinrick's Ambassador tae the Unitit States efter a leak o his creeticisms o the Donald Trump admeenistration an the subsequent reaction o Trump.
* 2020 - A Turkis coort decides that the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is tae be turned frae a museum back intae a mosque.

## Births

* 1451 - James III o Scotland (d. 1488)
* 1509 - John Calvin, French-Swiss theologian (d. 1564)
* 1748 - Archibald Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas, Scots politeecian (d. 1827)
* 1802 - Robert Chambers, Scots publisher (d. 1871)
* 1830 - Camille Pissarro, French penter (d. 1903)
* 1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian ingineer (d. 1943)
* 1871 - Marcel Proust, French writer (d. 1922)
* 1895 - Carl Orff, German componer (d. 1982)
* 1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (d. 1958)
* 1920 - Owen Chamberlain, American pheesicist (d. 2006)
* 1925 - Mahathir Mohamad, 4t Prime Meenister o Malaysie
* 1929 - Winnie Ewing, Scots politeecian
* 1931 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer
* 1940 - Tom Farmer, Scots entrepreneur
* 1942 - Ronnie James Dio, American hivy metal muisicker (d. 2010)
* 1943 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (d. 1993)
* 1945 - Virginia Wade, Inglis tennis player
* 1946 - Stuart Christie, Scots anarchist an writer (d. 2020)
* 1950 - Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Preses o Greece
* 1954 - Neil Tennant, Inglis muisicker
* 1970 - John Simm, Inglis actor
* 1975 - Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (d. 2018)
* 1977 - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Inglis actor
* 1980 - Katrina Bryan, Scots actress
* 1980 - Jessica Simpson, American sangster an actress
* 1984 - Mark González, Chilean fitbawer
* 1985 - Mario Gómez, German fitbawer
* 1995 - Ada Hegerberg, Norse fitbawer

## Daiths

* 138 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (b. 76)
* 1099 - El Cid, Castilian knicht, warlaird an fowk hero o Medieval Spain (b. c. 1040)
* 1559 - Henry II o Fraunce (b. 1519)
* 1584 - William the Silent, Dutch stadholder (b. 1530)
* 1671 - Philippe Charles, Duke o Anjou (b. 1668)
* 1884 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
* 1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
* 1989 - Mel Blanc, American actor (b. 1909)
* 2015 - Jimmy Murray, Scots fitbawer (b. 1933)
* 2015 - Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (b. 1932)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Bahamas)
* Statehood Day (Wyoming)
* Silence Day