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*'''July 10'''
**1778 - [[Louis XVI]] of [[France]] declares war on [[Great Britain]] in the [[American Revolution]].
**1850 - [[Millard Fillmore]] inaugurated as the 13th [[President of the United States]].
**1890 - [[Wyoming]] becomes the 44th state.
**1919 - [[President]] [[Woodrow Wilson]] personally delivers the [[Treaty of Versailles]] to the [[Senate]] and urges its ratification.
**1925 - The [[Scopes trial|Scopes Trial]] begins in Dayton, Tennessee
**1962 - The world's first communications satellite, '''Telstar''', is launched into orbit from [[Cape Canaveral]].
**1973 - The [[Bahamas]] gain full independence within the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].
**1985 - [[Greenpeace]] vessel ''Rainbow Warrior'' is blown up and sunk in Auckland, [[New Zealand]] Harbor by [[France|French]] government agents.
**1991 - [[Boris Yeltsin]] takes the oath of office as the first elected [[president]] of the [[Russia]]n republic.
*'''July 9'''
**1749 - The settlement of '''Halifax''' [[Nova Scotia]] is founded by '''Edward Cornwallis'''.
**2001 - [[Chile]] rules that General [[Augusto Pinochet]] would not be tried on human rights charges because of his deteriorating physical and mental health.
**2004 - The '''International Court of Justice''' rules that [[Israel]]'s security barrier in the [[West Bank]] violates international law; Israel responds that there has been an absolute halt in [[terrorist]] activities in the West Bank areas where the barrier has been constructed.
*'''July 8'''
**1775 - The [[Continental Congress]] of the Thirteen Colonies adopts the '''Olive Branch Petition''', a final appeal to [[King]] '''George III''' to redress colonial grievances.
**1776 - Col. John Nixon gives the first public reading of the [[Declaration of Independence]] to a crowd gathered at Independence Square in [[Philadelphia]].
**1889 - Debut issue of the '''Wall Street Journal''' is published.
**2003 - Sudan Airways Flight 39, a [[Boeing]] 737 with 117 people on board, crashes in [[Sudan]] - against all odds, there is one survivor, a two-year-old boy.