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SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2010

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  • Published Jul 9, 2010 5:45 pm KST
  • Updated Jul 9, 2010 5:45 pm KST

Today is Saturday, July 10, the 191st day of 2010. There are 174 days left in the year.

1847 _ Urbain J.J. Leverrier and John Couch Adams, co-discoverers of Neptune, meet for first time

1866 _ Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Mass.

1914 _ Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from the Baltimore Orioles

1918 _ Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established

1919 _ Pres Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate

1923 _ All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy

1940 _ Battle of Britain began as Nazi forces attacked by air

1962 _ Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia

1965 _ Beatles' ``Beatles' VI," album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for six weeks

1965 _ Rolling Stones score their first No. 1, ``I Can't Get No Satisfaction"