10 July
Notable Births
Moo Deng
b. 2024
Thai pygmy hippopotamus (born 2024)
Mason Thames
b. 2007
American actor (born 2007)
Reece Walsh
b. 2002
Australia international rugby league footballer
Isabela Merced
b. 2001
American actress (born 2001)
April Ivy
b. 1999
Musical artist
San (singer)
b. 1999
South Korean singer and dancer (born 1999)
Angus Cloud
b. 1998
American actor (1998–2023)
Chae Soo-bin
b. 1994
South Korean actress (born 1994)
Daishōmaru Shōgo
b. 1991
Japanese sumo wrestler
Adam Reynolds
b. 1990
Australian rugby league footballer
Trent Richardson
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Chiyonokuni Toshiki
b. 1990
Japanese sumo wrestler
Antonio Brown
b. 1988
American football player (born 1988)
Heather Hemmens
b. 1988
American actress, director (born 1984)
Sarah Walker (BMX rider)
b. 1988
New Zealand BMX racer (born 1988)
Urban Meyer
b. 1964
American football coach (born 1964)
Alice Munro
b. 1931
Canadian short story writer (1931–2024)
Don Herbert
b. 1917
American educational television host (1917–2007)
Ima Hogg
b. 1882
American patron of the arts (1882–1975)
William Blackstone
b. 1723
English jurist, judge, and politician (1723–1780)
Notable Deaths
David Gergen
d. 2025
American political consultant (1942–2025)
Joe Engle
d. 2024
American astronaut (1932–2024)
Alex Janvier
d. 2024
Canadian First Nations artist (1935–2024)
Maurice Boucher
d. 2022
Canadian outlaw biker and gangster (1953–2022)
Lara van Ruijven
d. 2020
Dutch short track speed skater (1992–2020)
Jack Charlton
d. 2020
English footballer and manager (1935–2020)
Denise Nickerson
d. 2019
American actress (1957–2019)
Henry Morgenthau III
d. 2018
American author and television producer (1917–2018)
Katharina Focke
d. 2016
German politician
Roger Rees
d. 2015
Welsh actor (1944–2015)
Omar Sharif
d. 2015
Egyptian actor (1932–2015)
Jon Vickers
d. 2015
Canadian opera singer
Robert C. Broomfield
d. 2014
American judge (1933–2014)
Paul G. Risser
d. 2014
American ecologist and academic (1939–2014)
Zohra Sehgal
d. 2014
Indian actress and choreographer (1912–2014)
Gloria Schweigerdt
d. 2014
American baseball player
Philip Caldwell
d. 2013
American businessman (1920–2013)
Józef Gara
d. 2013
Concha García Campoy
d. 2013
Spanish radio and TV journalist and personality
Caroline Duby Glassman
d. 2013
American judge
On This Day in History
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2019
The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
Volkswagen Beetle
2018
Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.
Tham Luang cave rescue
2017
Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.
War in Iraq (2013–2017)
2016
Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
Portugal national football team
2012
The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
Episcopal Church (United States)
2011
Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
Bulgaria (1955 ship)
2011
Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.
News International phone hacking scandal
2008
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
Ljube Boškoski
2007
Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
Erden Eruç
2006
A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 688
2002
The Massacre of the Innocents, a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, is sold at a Sotheby's auction for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
Massacre of the Innocents (Rubens)
2000
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
Airbus
2000
Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
Bashar al-Assad
1999
In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
Association football
1998
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claim they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
1997
In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
DNA
1997
Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
Miguel Ángel Blanco
1995
Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.
Myanmar
1995
The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.
NIOSH air filtration rating
1992
In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
Miami