What events happened on July 10?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌎 World Energy Independence Day.
🌏 Birthday of the football whistle.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇧🇸 Bahamas – Independence Day.
🇲🇷 Mauritania – Armed Forces Day.
🇷🇺 Russia – Battle of Poltava Day.
🇰🇮 Kiribati – Gospel Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Wyoming State Day.
🇲🇳 Mongolia – National Flag Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Chronic Disease Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 138 – Antoninus Pius becomes Roman Emperor.
– 1040 – Lady Godiva walks naked through the city.
– 1460 – Battle of Northampton.
– 1547 – The last duel officially authorized by the king took place in France.
– 1609 – The Catholic princes of Germany formed the Catholic League to fight the Reformation.
– 1712 – The Petropavlovsk Cathedral was completed in St. Petersburg.
– 1847 – The first 35 Chinese immigrants arrived in the United States.
– 1877 – The heroic defense of Bayezid Fortress by Russian troops came to an end.
– 1878 – For the first time in England, a football referee blew his whistle during a match (before that, referees shouted).
– 1908 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes was the first in the world to obtain liquid helium.
– 1918 – The first Constitution of the RSFSR was adopted.
– 1925 – The “monkey case” began in the United States.
– 1925 – TASS – the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union is established in the USSR.
– 1934 – The NKVD is established in the USSR.
– 1962 – The first commercial communications satellite, Telstar, is launched.
– 1973 – The Bahamas declares independence from Great Britain.
– 1985 – The crash of a Tu-154 aircraft near Uchkuduk. 200 people die – the largest air disaster in the history of Soviet aviation.
– 1992 – The Republic of Uzbekistan becomes a full member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
– 1994 – The British Grand Prix. Michael Schumacher begins his fight for his first championship title.
– 2002 – Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signs a decree on Ukraine’s accession to NATO.
– 2011 – The ship “Bulgaria” sank in the Volga. 122 people died, 79 were rescued.
