July 10th
Today in America's Present Past
1752 | Poet and Washington aide de camp, David Humphreys, was born.
1769 | Physician Jesse Bennett was born.
1792 | Politician George Mifflin Dallas was born.
1775 | War of Independence: General Gates issues order excluding Blacks from Continental Army, reversed by Washington months later.
1780 | War of Independence: The Comte de Rochambeau and his French force of 7,000 land in Newport, Rhode Island, to join the fight.
1808 | Author Solomon Northup was born.
1826 | Founding Father Luther Martin died.
1832 | Astronomer Alvan Graham Clark was born.
1839 | Brewer Adolphus Busch was born.
1842 | POTUS: The first articles of impeachment against a president were introduced against Democratic President John Tyler.
1856 | Inventor Nikola Tesla was born.
1863 | Author Clement Clarke Moore died.
1863 | Civil War: Battle of Jackson, Mississippi.
1867 | Civil Rights: Race riots start in Franklin, Tennessee.
1875 | Educator Mary McLeod Bethune was born.
1882 | Philanthropist Ima Hogg was born.
1883 | Director Sam Wood was born.
1884 | Chess player Paul Morphy died.
1890 | Statehood: Wyoming granted statehood.
1894 | Inventor Frank Zybach was born.
1917 | Civil Rights: Activist Emma Goldman was imprisoned for obstructing the draft.
1919 | Civil Rights: “Red Summer race riots” in Longview, Texas start.
1920 | Journalist David Brinkley was born.
1921 | Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver was born.
1925 | Civil Rights: Jury selection takes place in John T. Scopes’s evolution trial.
1926 | Actor Fred Gwynne was born.
1934 | POTUS: Democrat President Roosevelt visits Colombia, becoming the first sitting President to visit South America.
1938 | “A Yankee Clipper" completes its first passenger flight over the Atlantic.
1938 | Entrepreneur Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours.
1943 | Tennis Pro Arthur Ashe was born.
1943 | WWII: U.S. forces begin the liberation of Sicily.
1947 | Musician Arlo Guthrie was born.
1962 | Civil Rights: Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a demonstration in Georgia.
1972 | Actress Sofia Vergara was born.
1978 | Civil Rights: World News Tonight premieres on ABC with Max Robinson as the first Black anchor on a network newscast.
1980 | Musician Jessica Simpson was born.