Daily Calendar for Wednesday, July 10, 2024

John Calvin (theologian) – 1509
Camille Pissarro (painter) – 1830
Jan Neruda (poet) – 1834
James McNeill Whistler (painter) – 1834
Adolphus Busch (brewery executive) – 1839
Marcel Proust (novelist) – 1871
Carl Orff (composer) – 1895
Mildred Wirt Benson (original author, under the pen name Carolyn Keene, of the Nancy Drew mystery books) – 1905
Joe Shuster (cartoonist, co-creator of Superman comic) – 1914
David Brinkley (reporter & commentator) – 1920
Eunice Kennedy Shriver – 1921
Jake LaMotta (boxer) – 1921
Fred Gwynne (actor) – 1926
Arthur Ashe (tennis player) – 1943
Virginia Wade (tennis player) – 1945
Arlo Guthrie (folk singer) – 1947
Roger Craig (football player) – 1960
Jessica Simpson (singer) – 1980
Adam Petty (NASCAR driver) – 1980

Vice President Millard Fillmore was inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States following the death of Zachary Taylor – 1850
Wyoming admitted into the Union as the 44th state – 1890
His Master’s Voice trademark (showing the dog Nipper and a gramophone) was registered in the United States – 1900
George Hodgson became Canada’s first double Olympic gold medalist for swimming – 1912
Howard Hughes set a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world – 1938
Telstar, an experimental communications satellite privately owned and developed by AT&T, was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL – 1962
The Bahamas gained full independence within the British Commonwealth – 1973
At a Sotheby’s auction, Peter Paul Rubens’ painting The Massacre of the Innocents sold for $76.2 million – 2002

Greenland Ranch, Death Valley, California, recorded a temperature of 134 degrees F – 1913
Thunderstorms brought severe weather to Bullfrog, Utah, where 3 boats sank on Lake Powell – 1988
The northeastern U.S. was hit by 17 tornadoes – 1989
Homer, Alaska, experienced a record high temperature of 81 degrees F due to offshore winds – 1994