TODAY IN HISTORY

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July 10, 1940

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

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1890

Wyoming became the 44th state.

1919

President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate and urged its ratification.

1951

Armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong.

1962

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

1973

The Bahamas became fully independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.

1991

Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

2004

President George W. Bush said in his weekly radio address that legalizing gay marriage would redefine the most fundamental institution of civilization, and that a constitutional amendment was needed to protect traditional marriage.

2008

President George W. Bush signed a bill overhauling rules about government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americans in suspected terrorism cases.

2017

Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged that he agreed to meet with a Russian lawyer during his father’s presidential campaign in the hope that he would receive information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.