Battle of Britain / Rainbow Warrior / Drake

On This Day (July 10): Your quick daily trip back in time.

Fatih Taskiran
July 10, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful open-heart surgery without penicillin or blood transfusions.

Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attack shipping convoys in the English Channel.

The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior blew up Auckland harbor, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira was killed.

Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as the first elected President of the Russian Federation.

Drake surpasses The Beatles’ record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album "Scorpion".

On the Champ-de-Mars in Paris, four sloping legs of the Eiffel Tower were being built, 1887

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I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel room and, goddamn it, dying in a hotel room.