Today is Wednesday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2024 with 174 to follow.
The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Protestant theologian John Calvin in 1509; writer/abolitionist Solomon Northup in 1808; artist Camille Pissarro in 1830; artist James Whistler in 1834; inventor Nikola Tesla in 1856; writer Marcel Proust in 1871; educator Mary McLeod Bethune in 1875; TV news anchor/commentator David Brinkley in 1920; social activist Eunice Kennedy Shriver in 1921; boxer Jake LaMotta in 1921; writer Alice Munro in 1931; actor Robert Pine in 1941 (age 83); musician Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath) in 1942; tennis legend Arthur Ashe in 1943; actor Ron Glass in 1945; musician Arlo Guthrie in 1947 (age 77); actor Phyllis Smith in 1951 (age 73); Baseball Hall of Fame member Andre Dawson in 1954 (age 70); musician Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) in 1954 (age 70); actor Fiona Shaw in 1958 (age 66); musician Bela Fleck in 1958 (age 66); actor Jackie Chung in 1961 (age 63); sportscaster/former football coach Urban Meyer in 1964 (age 60); musician Peter DiStefano (Porno for Pyros) in 1965 (age 59); actor Gale Harold in 1969 (age 55); musician Gary Levox in 1970 (Rascal Flatts) (age 54); musician/TV personality Erika Jayne, born Erika Girardi, in 1971 (age 53); actor Sofia Vergara in 1972 (age 52); actor Adrian Grenier in 1976 (age 48); actor Chiwetel Ejiofor in 1977 (age 47); actor/musician Jessica Simpson in 1980 (age 44); actor Thomas Ian Nicholas in 1980 (age 44); actor Angus Cloud in 1998; actor Isabela Merced, born Isabela Moner, in 2001 (age 23).
On this date in history:
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In 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in school, a violation of state law, began in Dayton, Tenn., featuring a classic confrontation between William Jennings Bryan, the three-time presidential candidate and fundamentalist hero, and legendary defense attorney Clarence Darrow.
In 1962, the United States launched the first telecommunications satellite, Telstar, into orbit, which relayed TV pictures between the United States and Europe.
In 1985, Coca-Cola, besieged by consumers dissatisfied with the new Coke introduced in April, dusted off the old formula and dubbed it "Coca-Cola Classic."
In 1989, Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and countless other Warner Bros. cartoon characters and radio and TV comic creations, died from complications of heart disease. He was 81.
In 1991, Boris Yeltsin was inaugurated as the first freely elected president of the Russian republic.
In 1992, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in prison for cocaine racketeering.
In 2009, General Motors completed its race through bankruptcy with the signing of a contract with the U.S. government, which got 61 percent of the company. The recovery plan included considerable shrinkage, including the closing of factories and layoffs of 21,000 union workers.
In 2011, media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, Britain's best-selling weekly newspaper, abruptly ceased publication amid allegations that its reporters and investigators had hacked into telephones of royalty, politicians, celebrities, homicide victims, families of fallen soldiers and others to illegally gain material for stories.
In 2012, an Israeli court acquitted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of corruption but found him guilty of breach of trust. The charges stemmed from a period before he was PM.
In 2018, divers rescued the last of the 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand, where they'd been trapped for more than two weeks.
In 2022, Serbian Novak Djokovic defeated Australian Nick Kyrgios to win his fourth-straight and record-tying seventh Wimbledon men's singles title.
A thought for the day: "Those who have been required to memorize the world as it is will never create the world as it might be." -- American writer Judith Groch
