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What happened in history on this day: July 10?
On July 10 in ...
- 1949 - First practical rectangular TV tube announced in Toledo, Ohio. Size is 12 by 16 inches, price is US$12.
- 1950 - NBC premieres the Your Hit Parade 30/60-minute variety TV show.
- 1962 - The Telstar communications satellite is successfully launched into Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, providing communication via telephone and TV, with voice and picture transmission from Europe to America and back.
- 1975 - NBC-TV debuts the Gladys Knight & the Pips TV series.
- 1993 - US music video channel MTV debuts in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
- 2015 - Universal releases the film Minions to theaters.
Births on July 10
- 1920 - Birth of David Brinkley in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; TV journalist (NBC Nightly News 1956-70, This Week with David Brinkley).
- 1921 - Birth of Jeff (Jean Marie) Donnell in South Windham, Maine, USA; actress (Gidget Goes to Rome, Alice - The George Gobel Show, Dr. Kildare and Matt Helm, General Hospital).
- 1923 - Birth of Earl Hamner Junior; writer/narrator (The Waltons).
- 1926 - Birth of Carleton Carpenter in Bennington, Vermont, USA; actor (Up Periscope, Summer Stock).
- 1926 - Birth of Fred Gwynne in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Car 54 Where Are You?, The Munsters).
- 1927 - Birth of William Smithers in Richmond, Virginia, USA; actor (Witness, Peyton Place, Attack!).
- 1931 - Birth of Nick Adams in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Johnny Yuma - The Rebel TV show, Saints and Sinners) (dies 1968).
- 1939 - Birth of Lawrence Pressman in Kentucky, USA; actor (Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle, Doogie Howser, Judging Amy).
- 1940 - Birth of Mills Watson in Oakland, California, USA; actor (Harper Valley PTA, B.J. and Bear, Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo).
- 1941 - Birth of Robert Pine in Scarsdale, New York, USA; actor (Joe Getraer - CHiPs).
- 1945 - Birth of Ron Glass; actor (Sargeant Harris - Barney Miller, Frank's Place).
- 1946 - Birth of Sue Lyon in Davenport, Iowa, USA; actress (Lolita, Evel Knievel, Mantrap).
- 1949 - Birth of Mark Shera in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA; actor (SWAT, Barnaby Jones).
- 1972 - Birth of Damon Sharpe in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor/musician (Guys Next Door).
- 1976 - Birth of Adrian Grenier; actor (Entourage).
- 1980 - Birth of Thomas Ian Nicholas; actor (Party of Five).
Deaths on July 10
- 1989 - Death of Mel Blanc at age 81; cartoon voice (Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig).
- 1989 - Death of Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder of a heart ailment at age 80; British cockney comic (Sunday Night at the Palladium TV show).
- 1991 - Death of Gerome Ragni at age 48 of cancer in New York, USA; co-wrote and starred in rock musical Hair.
- 2004 - German TV actress Inge Meysel dies at age 94. During the previous 40 years she had starred in over 100 TV productions.
- 2005 - Death of Richard Eastham at age 89 of complications from Alzheimer's disease; actor (Wonder Woman TV show, Bright Promise TV show, Falcon Crest TV show).
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