10 July

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 10 July:

1. Inventor Nikola Tesla was born at the stroke of midnight on this date in 1856. He developed more than 700 patents, including fluorescent lighting, brushless electric motors, and the Tesla coil – a device used in radio and television equipment. He is also said to have claimed to be in Radio contact with aliens, that he could split the Earth in two, and boasted he had invented a "death ray" that could destroy aircraft at great distances.
2. In 1988, Bobo, the world’s oldest monkey, died after a stroke at the age of 53.
3. In 1962, Telstar 1, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to relay TV and telephone signals between the United States and Europe.
4. In 1900, the Paris underground railway, the Metro, was opened.
5. In 1958, Britain's first parking meters were installed, in Mayfair, London.
6. In 2018, cave rescue Divers in Thailand rescued the final four boys and their coach from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave.
7. In 1984, Nigerian embassy officials in London attempted to smuggle a kidnapped foreign minister using a sealed diplomatic bag.
8. In 1985, Greenpeace’s ship Rainbow Warrior was blown up by French secret agents while docked at Auckland Harbour, killing a photographer. The ship was scheduled to leave on a trip to protest against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
9. In 1976, a bunch of KKK members gathered for a friendly neighbourhood cross burning near Georgetown, Illinois. The meeting turned out to be a chapter of disasters. First, it started an hour late, then they found the cross they intended to burn was too heavy to move. It took the white-robed merrymakers three hours to chop their cross down to a portable size. When they finally planted it, it wouldn’t light. Finally they gave up and went home – somewhat, well, cross. Cue the tiny violins. 
10. In 1892, the first concrete-paved street was built in Bellefountaine, Ohio.

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