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This day in history

Today is Sunday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2016. There are 174 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Former boxer Jake LaMotta is 95. Former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins is 89. Actor William Smithers is 89. Broadway composer Jerry Herman is 85. Director Ivan Passer is 83. Actor Lawrence Pressman is 77. Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 69. Rock musician Dave Smalley is 67. Country-folk singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler is 65. Rock singer Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) is 62. Banjo player Bela Fleck is 58. Actress Sofia Vergara is 44. Rockabilly singer Imelda May is 42. Actor Adrian Grenier is 40. Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is 39. Rapper/singer Angel Haze is 25. Pop singer Perrie Edwards (Little Mix) is 23.

In 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Noyon, France.

In 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state.

In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urged its ratification. (However, the Senate rejected it.)

In 1925, jury selection took place in Dayton, Tenn., in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.)

In 1929, US paper currency was reduced in size as the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25 percent smaller.

In 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the Luftwaffe started attacking southern England.

In 1943, during World War II, US and British forces invaded Sicily.

In 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong.

In 1962, AT&T’s Telstar 1 communications satellite, capable of relaying television signals and telephone calls, was launched by NASA from Cape Canaveral.

In 1973, the Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.

In 1985, the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents.

In 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic. President George H.W. Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa.

In 1999, the United States women’s soccer team won the World Cup, beating China 5-4 on penalty kicks after 120 minutes of scoreless play at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif.

In 2006, a section of ceiling in Boston’s Big Dig tunnel collapsed, killing a car passenger.

In 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station, the final such hookup in orbit.

In 2015,South Carolina pulled the Confederate flag from its place of honor at the Statehouse.