10 July 138
After a 21-year reign, the Roman emperor Hadrian dies of a coronary heart assault at his villa in Baiae, within the Gulf of Naples.
10 July 1460
Watched by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians on the battle of Northampton, capturing King Henry VI and killing the Duke of Buckingham. The Lancastrians, who had been entrenched with cannon in a powerful place south of the river Nene close to Delapre Abbey, had been routed partly as a result of heavy rain prevented them from making use of their artillery however primarily due to the treachery of Lord Gray. At a key second within the battle he ordered his males to put down their arms and let the Yorkists into the Lancastrian entrenchments.
10 July 1871
Marcel Proust, essayist, critic and creator of the monumental A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Misplaced Time) was born in Auteuil, Paris. His father, Achille Adrien Proust, was an eminent Paris doctor.
10 July 1943
Operation Husky. Simply earlier than daybreak and regardless of hostile climate situations, forces from the British eighth Military and US seventh Military made amphibious and airborne landings in south-eastern Sicily. 5 weeks later the island was in Allied arms.
10 July 1962
The Telstar communications satellite tv for pc was launched aboard a Delta rocket at Cape Canaveral. Telstar made potential the transatlantic transmission of reside tv photos and was the inspiration for a success report by The Tornados.
