July 10

Today in History
• 552 - Origin of Armenian calendar
• 1460 - Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at the Battle of Northampton
• 1609 - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
• 1629 - 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, Massachusetts)
• 1652 - England declares war on The Netherlands - beginning of the 1st Anglo-Dutch war
• 1775 - Horatio Gates issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
• 1862 - US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad
• 1866 - Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Massachusetts


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Bahamas Independence Day
• Feast of St. Rosalia
• Gospel Day
• National Clerihew Day
• National Pizza Day in Brazil
• National Wyoming Day
• Political Flag Day
• Conwy River Festival

Birthdays
• 1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono, 102nd Emperor of Japan
• 1452 - James III, King of Scots (1460-88)
• 1509 - John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian
• 1723 - William Blackstone, England, jurist, Blackstone's Commentaries
• 1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, D, 11th Vice President, 1845-49
• 1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer
• 1856 - Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavia, physicist, developed alternating current
• 1925 - Mahathir bin MohamadMahathir bin Mohamad, 1925 Prime Minister of Malaysia