Today in History
10 July
Lady Godiva
By Hon. John Collier
Lady Jane Grey
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| 1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes | ||
| 1460 In the Wars of the Roses, Richard of York defeated King Henry VI at the battle of Northampton. | ||
| 1509 John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian was born | ||
| 1520 King Charles V & King Henry VIII signs treaty of Calais | |
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| 1526 Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien was born | ||
| 1553 Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England after the death of Edward VI; she ruled for only 10 days before being imprisoned and replaced by Mary I. | ||
| 1568 Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish | ||
| 1584 Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium | ||
| 1598 Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande | ||
| 1609 Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League | ||
| 1627 English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle | ||
| 1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded | ||
| 1645 Battle at Langport Somerset: Cromwell's New Model-army beats Royalists | Lady Godiva |
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| 1652 England declares war on Netherlands | By Hon. John Collier |
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| 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye | ||
| 1762 Roubiliacs monument for H„ndel unveiled at Westminster Abbey | ||
| 1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Arm | ||
| 1797 1st US frigate, the "United States," is launched in Philadelphia | ||
| 1810 Emperor Napoleon corpse leaves Netherlands for France | ||
| 1830 Camille Pissaro, Danish Antillean/French painter (impressionism) was born | ||
| 1832 Pres Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US | ||
| 1862 US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad | ||
| 1873 French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol | ||
| 1886 Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink & white | ||
| 1886 George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company | ||
| 1890 Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage) |
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| 1905 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court | ||
| 1913 Romania declares war on Bulgaria | ||
| 1915 British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa | ||
| 1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms | ||
| 1919 Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate | ||
| 1924 Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim | ||
| 1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam | ||
| 1925 USSR's official news agency TASS forms | ||
| 1929 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency | ||
| 1936 New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles | Lady Jane Grey |
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| 1938 Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours | ||
| 1940 World War II's Battle of Britain began when at least 70 German bombers attacked the docks in south Wales. | ||
| 1940 German planes attack British ships in the Canal | ||
| 1940 The French National Assembly gave plenary powers to the government of Marshal Petain. | ||
| 1942 Netherland's govt in exile (London) recognizes Soviet Union | ||
| 1943 The U.S. 7th and British 8th armies began the invasion of Sicily. | ||
| 1945 Lt-adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff | ||
| 1946 Belgian govt of Acker, resigns | ||
| 1947 200 die when train derails & fell into a river in Canton, China | ||
| 1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army | ||
| 1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong | ||
| 1956 650,000 US steel workers go on strike | ||
| 1960 Belgium sends troops to Congo | ||
| 1962 Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia | ||
| 1962 Telstar, the first television telecommunications satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, making possible the first relaying of television programs across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| 1969 Chilean Association of Librarians created | ||
| 1971 Failed attempt on King Hassan II Shirat Morocco, 101 killed | ||
| 1972 Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India | ||
| 1973 the Bahamas attained full independence within the Commonwealth, having been a British colony since 1783. | ||
| 1974 OPEC ends oil boycott against Netherlands | ||
| 1978 Bloodless military coup in Mauritania | ||
| 1978 Military coup in Mauritania, president Moktar flees | ||
| 1980 Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen | ||
| 1985 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke | ||
| 1985 One Greenpeace crew member died when the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was blown up and sunk by French secret agents in Auckland harbor in New Zealand. | ||
| 1991 Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as the first elected president of Russia, sealing communism's fate. | ||
| 1991 L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C-99 crashes in Alabama, killing 13 | ||
| 1992 Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in jail in the United States on drug-trafficking charges | ||
| 1994 Nepal premier Girija Prasadkoirala resigns | ||
C.H. OSTFELD, INC.