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Daily Calendar for Thursday, July 10, 2014

Born

  • John Calvin (theologian) –
  • Camille Pissarro (painter) –
  • Jan Neruda (poet) –
  • James McNeill Whistler (painter) –
  • Adolphus Busch (brewery executive) –
  • Marcel Proust (novelist) –
  • Carl Orff (composer) –
  • Mildred Wirt Benson (original author, under the pen name Carolyn Keene, of the Nancy Drew mystery books) –
  • Joe Shuster (cartoonist, co-creator of Superman comic) –
  • David Brinkley (reporter & commentator) –
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver –
  • Jake LaMotta (boxer) –
  • Fred Gwynne (actor) –
  • Arthur Ashe (tennis player) –
  • Virginia Wade (tennis player) –
  • Arlo Guthrie (folk singer) –
  • Roger Craig (football player) –
  • Jessica Simpson (singer) –
  • Adam Petty (NASCAR driver) –

Died

  • Henry II of France –
  • Jelly Roll Morton (jazz musician) –
  • Arthur Fiedler (orchestra conductor) –
  • Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny and other characters) –
  • Aaron Lapin (businessman) –
  • Omar Sharif (actor) –
  • Roger Rees (actor) –

Events

  • Vice President Millard Fillmore was inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States following the death of Zachary Taylor–
  • Wyoming admitted into the Union as the 44th state–
  • His Master’s Voice trademark (showing the dog Nipper and a gramophone) was registered in the United States–
  • George Hodgson became Canada’s first double Olympic gold medalist for swimming–
  • Howard Hughes set a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world–
  • Telstar, an experimental communications satellite privately owned and developed by AT&T, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL–
  • The Bahamas gained full independence within the British Commonwealth–
  • At a Sotheby’s auction, Peter Paul Rubens’ painting The Massacre of the Innocents sold for $76.2 million–

Weather

  • Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California, recorded a temperature of 134 degrees F–
  • Thunderstorms brought severe weather to Bullfrog, Utah, where 3 boats sank on Lake Powell–
  • The northeastern U.S. was hit by 17 tornadoes–
  • Homer, Alaska, experienced a record high temperature of 81 degrees F due to offshore winds–

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