Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 10
July 10: Independence Day in the Bahamas (1973); Silence Day.
- 1584 – William the Silent (pictured), the Prince of Orange, was assassinated at his home in Delft, Holland by Balthasar Gérard.
- 1796 – German mathematician and scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers, writing in his diary his famous words, "Heureka! num= ."
- 1925 – Indian guru Meher Baba began his silence of 44 years until his death in 1969.
- 1962 – Telstar, the world's first active, direct relay communications satellite, was launched by NASA aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral.
- 1985 – French intelligence agents bombed and sank the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior, while docked in a port of Auckland, New Zealand, to prevent her from interfering in a nuclear test in Moruroa.
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