10th July anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1509
  • France
  • "Birth of John Calvin, French Protestant theologian and reformer, founder of Calvinism"
• event
  • 1296
  • Great Britain
  • John Baliol dethroned by Edward I
  • 1460
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Northampton
  • 1553
  • Great Britain
  • Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen of England
  • 1690
  • Great Britain
  • Battle of Beachy Head
  • 1919
  • United States
  • US President Woodrow Wilson delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the US Senate and urged its ratification
  • 1938
  • United States
  • "American aviator Howard Hughes completed a 91-hour flight around the world, setting a new record."
  • 1940
  • Great Britain
  • The Battle of Britain begins
  • 1958
  • Great Britain
  • "Britain’s first parking meters were installed, in Mayfair, London ."
  • 1989
  • Russian Federation
  • "20,000 coal miners in western Siberia went on strike, demanding better pay and conditions. The strike quickly spread and over 300,000 miners throughout the Soviet Union were soon involved, despite a ban on industrial action"
• Death
  • 1989
  • United States
  • "Death of Mel Blanc, American voice actor who supplied the voices for over 400 cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig" more