07-09-2011, 07:11 PM
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Location: Maryland
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July 10th
1839 ~ Birthday of Adolphus Busch, German-born Brewer.
1856 ~ Birthday of Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist.
1940 ~ The Luftwaffe began the Battle of Britain.
1962 ~ The world's first active communications satellite, Telstar, and first privately sponsored space launch.
1985 ~ The Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbor by French agents.
1989 ~ Death of Mel Blanc, Voice Actor ( Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Beaky Buzzard, Tweety Bird, Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble, Mr. Spacely).
1997 ~ Scientists reported their DNA analysis findings which support the Out of Africa hypothesis of human evolution.
2002 ~ At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents was sold for $76.2 million.
2003 ~ Death of Lord Shawcross, U.K. chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
2011 ~ After 168 years, the British tabloid News of the World published its last edition.
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