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Société nationale de radiodiffusion et de télévision (SNRT) is the public broadcaster of Morocco. It was formerly called Radio Television du Maroc (RTM). RTM/SNRT was a member of the EBU from 1950 until 1961 and rejoined in 1968.
'''July 10''' is the 191st day (192nd in [[leap year]]s) of the year in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 174 days remaining.
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==Events==
*[[48 BC]] - [[Battle of Dyrrhachium]], [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]] barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to [[Pompey]] in [[Macedon]]ia.
* [[1584]] - [[William I of Orange]] was [[Assassination|assassinated]] in his home in [[Delft]], [[Holland]] by [[Balthasar Gérard]].
*[[1778]] - [[American Revolution]]: [[Louis XVI of France]] declares war on the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]].
*[[1789]] - [[Alexander Mackenzie (explorer)|Alexander Mackenzie]] reaches [[Mackenzie River]] Delta.
*[[1821]] - The [[United States]] takes possession of its newly-bought territory of [[Florida]] from [[Spain]].
*[[1832]] - President [[Andrew Jackson]] vetoes a bill that would re-charter the [[Second Bank of the United States]].
*[[1850]] - [[Millard Fillmore]] is inaugurated as the 13th [[President of the United States]].
*[[1890]] - [[Wyoming]] is admitted as the 44th [[U.S. state]].
*[[1913]] - [[Death Valley]], [[California]] hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the [[United States]] ([[as of 2003]]).
*[[1925]] - The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union ([[ITAR-TASS|TASS]]), the official [[news]] agency of the [[Soviet Union]] , is established.
* 1925 - [[Scopes Trial]]: In [[Dayton, Tennessee]], the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with [[John T. Scopes]], a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching [[evolution]] in violation of a [[Tennessee]] state law.
*[[1938]] - [[Howard Hughes]] sets a new record by completing a 91 hour [[airplane]] flight around the world.
*[[1940]] - [[World War II]]: [[Vichy France]] government established.
* 1940 - World War II: [[Battle of Britain]] - The German [[Luftwaffe]] begin to hit [[United Kingdom | British]] convoys in the [[English Channel]] thus starting the battle (this start date is contested, though).
*[[1951]] - [[Korean War]]: At [[Kaesong]], armistice negotiations begin.
* 1951 - [[Randy Turpin]] becomes the [[middleweight]] [[boxing]] champion after defeating [[Sugar Ray Robinson]].
*[[1962]] - [[Telstar]], the world's first [[communications satellite]], is launched into orbit.
*[[1967]] - [[Uruguay]] becomes a member of the [[Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works|Berne Convention]] [[copyright]] [[treaty]].
*[[1968]] - [[Maurice Couve de Murville]] becomes [[Prime Minister of France]]
*[[1973]] - The [[Bahamas]] gain full independence within the [[British Commonwealth]].
*[[1985]] - [[Greenpeace]] vessel ''[[Rainbow Warrior]]'' is bombed and sunk in [[Auckland, New Zealand]] Harbor by [[French]] [[DGSE]] agents.
*[[1985]] - In response to market demand, [[Coca-cola|Coca-Cola]] re-introduces it's old formula [[cola]] as "Coca-Cola Classic" (see [[New Coke]]).
*[[1991]] - [[Boris Yeltsin]] begins his 5-year term as the first elected [[President of Russia]].
*[[1992]] - In [[Miami, Florida]], former [[Panamanian]] leader [[Manuel Noriega]] is sentenced to 40 years in prison for [[drug]] and [[racketeering]] violations.
*[[1997]] - [[London]], scientists report their [[DNA]] analysis findings from a [[Neandertal]] skeleton which support the [[out of Africa theory]] of [[human evolution]] placing an "[[African Eve]]" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
*[[1998]] - The remains of [[United States Air Force]] 1st Lt. [[Michael Joseph Blassie]] are returned to his family in [[St. Louis, Missouri]] from the [[Tomb of the Unknowns]] upon identification through [[DNA analysis]]. The remains had been in the first tomb since [[1984]].
* 1998 - [[Catholic priests' sex abuse scandal]]: The [[Diocese of Dallas]] agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were [[sexual abuse | sexually abused]] by former priest [[Rudolph Kos]].
*[[2000]] - A leaking southern [[Nigerian]] [[Pipeline transport|petroleum pipeline]] explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging [[gasoline]].
*2000 - [[EADS]], the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of [[Aérospatiale-Matra]], [[DASA]], and [[Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA|CASA]].
*[[2002]] - At a [[Sotheby's]] auction, [[Peter Paul Rubens]]' painting "[[The Massacre of the Innocents]]" is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord [[Kenneth Thomson]].
*[[2003]] - A [[Neoplan]] bus, owned by [[Kowloon Motor Bus]], collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, [[Hong Kong]], and plunges into the underlying [[valley]], killing 21 people. This is the deadliest bus accident to date in Hong Kong.
==Births==
*[[1452]] - King [[James III of Scotland]] (d. [[1488]])
*[[1509]] - [[John Calvin]], religious reformer (d. [[1564]])
*[[1625]] - [[Jean Herauld Gourville]], French adventurer (d. [[1703]])
*[[1638]] - [[David Teniers III]], Flemish painter (d. [[1685]])
*[[1666]] - [[John Ernest Grabe]], German-born Anglican theologian (d. [[1711]])
*[[1682]] - [[Roger Cotes]], English mathematician (d. [[1716]])
*[[1830]] - [[Camille Pissarro]], French painter (d. [[1903]])
*[[1832]] - [[Alvan Graham Clark]], American telescope maker and astronomer (d. [[1897]])
*[[1834]] - [[James McNeil Whistler]], American painter (d. [[1903]])
*[[1835]] - [[Henryk Wieniawski]], Polish composer (d. [[1880]])
*[[1842]] - [[Adolphus Busch]], German-born brewer (d. [[1913]])
*[[1856]] - [[Nikola Tesla]], Croatian physicist (d. [[1943]])
*[[1871]] - [[Marcel Proust]], French writer (d. [[1922]])
*[[1888]] - [[Giorgio de Chirico]], Italian painter (d. [[1978]])
*[[1895]] - [[Carl Orff]], German composer (d. [[1982]])
*[[1899]] - [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]], American actor (d. [[1936]])
*[[1902]] - [[Kurt Alder]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]])
*[[1903]] - [[John Wyndham]], British author (d. [[1969]])
*[[1914]] - [[Joe Shuster]], cartoonist
*1915 - [[Milt Buckner]], musician
*[[1920]] - [[David Brinkley]], American television reporter (d. [[2003]])
*1920 - [[Owen Chamberlain]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[1921]] - [[Harvey Ball]], American inventor (d. [[2001]])
*1921 - [[Jake LaMotta]], American boxer
*1921 - [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]], American activist
*[[1923]] - [[Jean Kerr]], American author (d. [[2003]])
*1923 - [[Earl Hamner Jr.]], American author and television producer
*[[1926]] - [[Fred Gwynne]], American actor (d. [[1993]])
*[[1928]] - [[Moshe Greenberg]], American-Israeli Bible scholar
*[[1931]] - [[Nick Adams]], American actor (d. [[1968]])
*1931 - [[Alice Munro]], Canadian writer
*[[1938]] - [[Paul Andreu]], French architect
*[[1939]] - [[Ahmet Taner Kislali|Ahmet Taner Kışlalı]], Turkish politician, journalist, and educator (d. [[1999]])
*[[1940]] - [[Helen Donath]], American soprano
*[[1942]] - [[Pyotr Klimuk]], cosmonaut
*1942 - [[Ronnie James Dio]], American musician
*[[1943]] - [[Arthur Ashe]], American tennis player (d. [[1993]])
*[[1945]] - [[Virginia Wade]], British tennis player
*[[1946]] - [[Sue Lyon]], American actress
*[[1947]] - [[Arlo Guthrie]], American musician
*[[1951]] - [[Cheryl Wheeler]], American singer and songwriter
*[[1954]] - [[Neil Tennant]], British musician
*[[1959]] - [[Janet Julian]], American actress
*[[1968]] - [[Hassiba Boulmerka]], Algerian athlete
*[[1980]] - [[Adam Petty]], American race car driver (d. [[2000]])
*1980 - [[Jessica Simpson]], American singer
*1980 - [[Thomas Ian Nicholas]], American actor
*[[1981]] - [[Brian Keaney]]
==Deaths==
*[[138]] - [[Hadrian]], [[Roman Emperor]] (b. [[76]])
*[[1559]] - [[Henry II of France]] (b. [[1519]])
*[[1584]] - [[William I of Orange]], Dutch leader (b. [[1533]])
*[[1590]] - Archduke [[Charles II of Austria]], regent of Inner Austria (b. [[1540]])
*[[1680]] - [[Louis Moréri]], French encyclopedist (b. [[1643]])
*[[1686]] - [[John Fell (clergyman)|John Fell]], English churchman (b. [[1625]])
*[[1806]] - [[George Stubbs]], British painter (b. [[1724]])
*[[1884]] - [[Paul Morphy]], American chess player (b. [[1837]])
*[[1920]] - [[Jackie Fisher]], British admiral (b. [[1841]])
*[[1941]] - [[Jelly Roll Morton]], American jazz musician (b. [[1890]])
*[[1978]] - [[John D Rockefeller III]], American businessman (b. [[1906]])
* 1978 - [[Joe Davis]], English [[snooker]] player (b. [[1901]])
*[[1979]] - [[Arthur Fiedler]], American conductor (b. [[1894]])
*[[1987]] - [[John Hammond]], American record producer (b. [[1910]])
*[[1989]] - [[Mel Blanc]], American voice actor (b. [[1908]])
*[[2003]] - [[Lord Shawcross]], Britain's chief prosecutor at the [[Nuremberg Trials]] (b. [[1902]])
*[[2005]] - [[A.J. Quinnell]], English thriller and mystery writer (b. [[1940]])
* 2005 - [[Richard Eastham]], singer-actor
==Holidays and observances==
*[[Bahamas]] - [[Independence Day]]
* [[Silence Day]] - celebrated by followers of [[Meher Baba]]
*[[Mauritania]] - [[Armed Forces Day]]
*Ancient [[Latvia]] - [[Septinu Bralu Diena]] observed
== External links ==
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/10 BBC: On This Day]
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