International observance days, weeks, and months for July 10, 2026. Plus historical events and birthdays.
July 10, 2026 celebrates Global Energy Independence Day. Global Energy Independence Day falls on July 10 and promotes awareness for alternative forms of energy. This Awareness Day offers opportunities to learn more about renewable forms of energy, such as solar, wind, and geothermal.
People born on July 10
Journalist and creator of some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries. She is credited with creating the detective's adventurous personality.
Educator and civil rights activist who founded the National Council of Negro Women. She also establish the Aframerican Women's Journal.
Highly decorated U.S. Army Major General who was a founding member of the CIA.
Illustrator and co-created Superman.
Physician who spent her career researching pesticides, nuclear radiation, birth defects, breast cancer, and illnesses caused by toxins in homes. She was a pioneer in the field of occupational and environmental health.
Events that occurred on July 10 throughout history
President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the U.S. The President denounced the institution as "unconstitutional, corrupt, and a tool of the wealthy elite that catered to foreign and privileged interests at the expense of ordinary Americans."
President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death, who died unexpectedly of natural causes.
Wyoming is admitted as the 44th state to join the Union. The state was carved from sections of the Dakota, Utah, and Idaho territories.
President Woodrow Wilson hand delivers the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate. The document ended WWI and proposed the League of Nations.
The trial of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution begins. The trial accused Mr. Scopes of violating the Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach human evolution in state-funded schools.