On This Day
10 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1800 Fort William College, an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India.
- 1806 The Vellore mutiny, the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company took place.
- 1909 Gandhiji arrives in London with the assistance of Lord Ampthill and works ceaselessly to educate influential British leaders and the public, and also to move Imperial authorities.
- 1949 Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster, was born.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1212 The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
- 1856 Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor, best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system, was born.
- 1962 Telstar 1, the world's first communication satellite was launched in space. The satellite, made by a collaboration between organizations in the U.S., the U.K., and France, transmitted the first live television images in the world.
- 1991 Russian politician Boris Yeltsin was sworn into office as the country's first elected president.
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