07-10-2005, 05:20 AM
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July 10th
1842 ~ Birthday of :wingang: Adolphus Busch, German-born Brewer.
1856 ~ Birthday of Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist.
1895 ~ Birthday of Carl Orff, German Composer.
1925 ~ In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Monkey Trial began with John T. Scopes, a high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee state law.
1962 ~ The world's first communications satellite, Telstar, was launched.
1979 ~ Death of Arthur Fiedler, American Conductor.
1985 ~ The Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland Harbor by French agents.
1997 ~ Scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton 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.
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