July 10

10Jul2010 In : On this day
Author : FJ

July 10: Silence Day; Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973)

1553 – Four days after the death of her predecessor, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey was officially proclaimed Queen of England, beginning her reign as “The Nine Days’ Queen”.
1800 – Lord Wellesley, Governor-General of the British Raj, founded Fort William College in Fort William, India, to promote Bengali, Hindi and other vernaculars of the subcontinent.
1913 – California‘s Death Valley hit 134 °F (56.7 °C), the highest temperature ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere.
1925 – Indian mystic and spiritual master Meher Baba (pictured) began his silence until his death in 1969, only communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures.
1941 – The Holocaust: A group of non-Jewish ethnic Poles from around the nearby area murdered hundreds of Jewish residents of Jedwabne in occupied Poland.

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