Nikola Tesla monument at Niagara Falls, N.Y. |
July 10, 1813 – Peter McQueen, head of the Tallasee
warriors; High-Head Jim with the Autaugas; and Josiah Francis with the
Alabamas, numbering in all 350, travel to Pensacola, Fla. for the purpose of war
talk.
July 10, 1813 – Alexander Travis ordained as a minister by
the Cambridge Church in South Carolina.
July 10, 1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore is sworn in
as the 13th president of the United States. President Zachary Taylor had died
the day before, five days after falling ill with a severe intestinal ailment on
the Fourth of July.
July 10, 1856 - Nikola Tesla - the pioneering inventor,
electrical engineer, and scientist - born in what is now Croatia.
July 10, 1863 – Siege of Battery Wagner begins as Union
troops land on Morris Island near Charleston, South Carolina, and prepare for a
siege on Battery Wagner, a massive sand fortress on the island.
July 10, 1913 – It was on this date that the highest
temperature was recorded in the United States, a sizzling 134 °F in Death
Valley, California.
July 10, 1967 – Army PFC Jimmy Earl Darby of Opp killed in
action in Vietnam.
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