Today in History for July 10, 2014

Nikola Tesla monument at Niagara Falls, N.Y.

July 10, 1813 – Peter McQueen, head of the Tallasee warriors; High-Head Jim with the Autaugas; and Josiah Francis with the Alabamas, numbering in all 350, travel to Pensacola, Fla. for the purpose of war talk.

July 10, 1813 – Alexander Travis ordained as a minister by the Cambridge Church in South Carolina.

July 10, 1850 - Vice President Millard Fillmore is sworn in as the 13th president of the United States. President Zachary Taylor had died the day before, five days after falling ill with a severe intestinal ailment on the Fourth of July.

July 10, 1856 - Nikola Tesla - the pioneering inventor, electrical engineer, and scientist - born in what is now Croatia.

July 10, 1863 – Siege of Battery Wagner begins as Union troops land on Morris Island near Charleston, South Carolina, and prepare for a siege on Battery Wagner, a massive sand fortress on the island.

July 10, 1913 – It was on this date that the highest temperature was recorded in the United States, a sizzling 134 °F in Death Valley, California.

July 10, 1967 – Army PFC Jimmy Earl Darby of Opp killed in action in Vietnam.

July 10, 1984 - Pat Poole romped to an easy victory in voting for mayor in Evergreen. Poole had wide margins in all five council districts as he piled up 945 votes to easily defeat Mayor Lee Smith and W.B. Epperson.