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TODAY IN HISTORY

July 10

Friday, July 10, 2026

Day 190 of 2026 | Week 28 | 169 days until Christmas 🎅

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2019

The final Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico; the last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.

2
2018

Tham Luang cave rescue: A group of Thai school children and their football coach are all rescued from a cave after being stuck there for 18 days; one Thai Navy SEAL diver dies during the rescue mission.

3
2017

Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.

4
2016

Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.

5
2012

The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.

6
2011

Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in the Volga River near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.

7
2011

Amid widespread backlash to revelations of phone hacking, the British weekly tabloid newspaper News of the World publishes its final issue and shuts down after nearly 168 years in print.

8
2008

Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.

9
2007

Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

10
2006

A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1982 Silver Slugger Award) and Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame inductee

born in Avon Park

1950 Nick Jameson

American actor (24)

1950 Prokopis Pavlopoulos

Greek politician

1949 Dave Smalley

American power pop guitarist and bassist (Raspberries - "Go All The Way"; "Tonight")

1949 Greg Kihn

American pop musician ("The Break-Up Song (They Don't Write 'Em)"; "Jeopardy")

1949 John C. Whitehead

American R&B singer (McFadden & Whitehead - "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now")

1949 Mark Shera

American actor (SWAT; Barnaby Jones)

1947 Richard Schmiechen

American film producer (The Times of Harvey Milk)

1947 Trevor Key

British photographer and graphic designer

1946 Sue Lyon

American actress (Lolita

1945 Hal McRae

American Major League Baseball left fielder (Cincinnati Reds

1945 Jean-Marie Poiré

French screenwriter and director (The Visitors

1945 John Motson

British football broadcaster (10 x FIFA World Cups; 10 x UEFA European C'ships; 29 x FA Cup finals; BBC

1945 Peter Michalica

Slovak violinist

1945 Ron Glass

American actor (Barney Miller

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