TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, JULY 10, 2017

On this day in history:

1679 - The British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.

1778 - In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declared war on England. 1852 - Sydney, Australia, is incorporated as a city.

1910 - Australia’s Commonwealth Naval Forces are granted the title of Royal Australian Navy by King George V.

1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was hand delivered to the US Senate by President Wilson. 1936 - The Thylacine, commonly referred to as the Tasmanian Tiger, is named a protected animal.

1938 - Howard Hughes completed a 91 hour flight around the world.

1940 - The 114-day Battle of Britain began during the Second World War.

1951 - Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict began at Kaesong.

1962 - Fred Baldasare swam the English Channel underwater. It was 42 miles and took 18 hours. 1973 - Britain granted the Bahamas their independence after three centuries of British colonial rule.

1985 - Coca-Cola resumed selling the old formula of Coke, it was renamed Coca-Cola Classic. It was also announced that they would continue to sell New Coke.

1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev won re-election as the leader of the Soviet Communist Party. 1991 - Boris Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

1993 - Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki became the first man to run 10,000 meters in less than 27 minutes.

1997 - Scientists in London said DNA from a Neanderthal skeleton supported a theory that all humanity descended from an “African Eve” 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

1998 - The World Bank approved a $700 million loan to Thailand.

1999 - The heads of six African nations that had troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo signed a cease-fire agreement that would end the civil war in that nation. 2002 - Peter Paul Rubens’ painting The Massacre of the Innocents sold for $76.2 million at Sotheby’s.