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July 10

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Battle of Britain

86 years ago

Born this day

1856

Nikola Tesla

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Oldest record

1888th

Hadrian

death anniversary

Famous births27

1451 · 575 yrs

James III of Scotland

James III (10 July 1451/May 1452 – 11 June 1488) was King of Scots from 1460 until his death at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488. He inherited the throne as a child following the death of his father, King James II, at the siege of Roxburgh Castle.

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RoyaltyWould be 575

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1509 · 517 yrs

John Calvin

John Calvin (Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.

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ReligionWould be 517

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1787 · 239 yrs

Louis Daguerre

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre ( də-GAIR; French:; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French scientist, artist and photographer. He is recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography.

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ArtWould be 239

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1792 · 234 yrs

George M. Dallas

George Mifflin Dallas (July 10, 1792 – December 31, 1864) was an American politician and diplomat who served as the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. He also served as the mayor of Philadelphia from 1828 to 1829, and as the U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom from 1856 to 1861.

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PoliticsWould be 234

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1830 · 196 yrs

Camille Pissarro

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro ( piss-AR-oh; French:; 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of Saint Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).

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ArtWould be 196

Photo: Unknown author · Public domain

1834 · 192 yrs

James McNeill Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 10, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter in oils and watercolor, and printmaker, based primarily in the United Kingdom. He eschewed sentimentality and moral allusion in painting and was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".

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ArtWould be 192

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1856 · 170 yrs

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

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TechnologyWould be 170

Photo: Napoleon Sarony · Public domain

1867 · 159 yrs

Prince Maximilian of Baden

Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (Maximilian Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm; 10 July 1867 – 6 November 1929), also known as Max von Baden, was a German aristocrat, general and politician.

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Photo: German official court photographer, Voigt T H (of Frankfurt) · Public domain

1871 · 155 yrs

Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French:; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things Past), which was published in…

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LiteratureWould be 155

Photo: Otto Wegener · Public domain

1888 · 138 yrs

Giorgio de Chirico

Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico ( KIRR-ik-oh; Italian:; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was a Greek-Italian artist and writer born in Volos, Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists.

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Photo: Carl Van Vechten · Public domain

1895 · 131 yrs

Carl Orff

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (German:; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator who is best known for composing the cantata Carmina Burana and formulating concepts of his Schulwerk (lit. 'schoolwork'), which became influential for children's music education.

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MusicWould be 131

Photo: Orff-Zentrum München · CC BY-SA 4.0

1902 · 124 yrs

Kurt Alder

Kurt Alder (German pronunciation:; 10 July 1902 – 20 June 1958) was a German chemist and Nobel laureate.

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ScienceWould be 124

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Famous deaths9

138 · 1888 yrs

Hadrian

Hadrian ( HAY-dree-ən; born Publius Aelius Hadrianus, 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. His form of address as Roman emperor was Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus.

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RoyaltyWould be 1950

Photo: Marie-Lan Nguyen · Public domain

1510 · 516 yrs

Catherine Cornaro

Catherine Cornaro (Venetian: Catarina Corner; Italian: Caterina Cornaro or Corner; Greek: Αικατερίνη Κορνάρο, romanized: Aikateríni Kornáro; 25 November 1454 – 10 July 1510) was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus, also holding the titles of Queen of Jerusalem and Queen of Armenia.

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Photo: Gentile Bellini · Public domain

1559 · 467 yrs

Henry II of France

Henry II (French: Henri II; 31 March 1519 – 10 July 1559) was King of France from 1547 until his death in 1559. The second son of Francis I and Claude, Duchess of Brittany, he became Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in 1536.

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Photo: Workshop of François Clouet · Public domain

1584 · 442 yrs

William the Silent

William the Silent or William the Taciturn (Dutch: Willem de Zwijger; 24 April 1533 – 10 July 1584), more commonly known in the Netherlands as William of Orange (Dutch: Willem van Oranje) and in the Dutch national anthem as William of Nassau (Dutch: Willem van Nassau), was the leader of the Dutch revolt against the…

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Photo: Adriaen Thomasz. Key · Public domain

1851 · 175 yrs

Louis Daguerre

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1884 · 142 yrs

Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master.

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1910 · 116 yrs

Johann Gottfried Galle

Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view and identify the planet Neptune.

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ScienceWould be 214

Photo: Olga Radomsky · Public domain

2006 · 20 yrs

Shamil Basayev

Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (Chechen: Салман ВоӀ Шамиль; Salman Voj Şamil; Russian: Шамиль Салманович Басаев; 14 January 1965 – 10 July 2006), also known by his kunya Abu Idris, was a Chechen guerrilla leader, politician, and terrorist who served as a senior military commander in the breakaway Chechen Republic of…

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Photo: Natalia Medvedeva · CC BY-SA 3.0

2015 · 11 yrs

Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif (born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub; 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as his country's greatest male film star. He began his career in Egypt in the early 1950s.

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Photo: Photographer-Gene Weber, Seattle · Public domain

Events5

1546 · 480 yrs

Schmalkaldic War

The Schmalkaldic War (German: Schmalkaldischer Krieg; July 1546 – May 1547) was fought within the territories of the Holy Roman Empire between the allied forces of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Maurice, Duke of Saxony against the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League, with the forces directly loyal to Charles fighting…

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War

1940 · 86 yrs

Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain (German: Luftschlacht um England, lit. 'air battle for England') was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

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War

1941 · 85 yrs

Battle of Smolensk

The first Battle of Smolensk (German: Kesselschlacht bei Smolensk, lit. 'Cauldron-battle at Smolensk') was a battle during the second phase of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, in World War II.

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War

1943 · 83 yrs

Italian Campaign

The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945.

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War

2016 · 10 yrs

UEFA Euro 2016 finals: Portugal v France

The UEFA Euro 2016 final was the final match of UEFA Euro 2016, the fifteenth edition of the European Championship, UEFA's quadrennial competition for national association football teams. The match was played at the Stade de France in Paris, France, on 10 July 2016, and was contested between Portugal and hosts France.

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