Once Upon A Time – July 10 – 1991 – Boris Yeltsin Sworn-In As 1st Elected President Of The Russian Federation

1778 American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain

1940 Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel

1985 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.

1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected President of the Russian Federation

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1950 “Your Hit Parade” premieres on NBC-TV (later CBS), after being broadcast on radio from 1935

Today in Music
2018 Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album “Scorpion”

Today in Sport
1971 100th British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale: Lee Trevino wins the first of his consecutive Open Championships, a stroke ahead of Lu Liang-Huan of Taiwan

MORE FACTS
1040 Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes

1913 World’s official highest recorded temperature at Greenland Ranch (now known as Furnace Creek Ranch), Death Valley, California at 134 °F (56.7 °C)

Famous Weddings
1898 Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin marries fellow revolutionary Nadezhda “Nadya” Krupskaya in Shushenskoye.

1919 Author Aldous Huxley (25) weds epidemiologist Maria Nys in Bellem, Belgium

1926 Future Cuban President and dictator Fulgencio Batista (25) weds Elisa Godínez y Gómez (25)