July 10^th is:

Clerihew Day! (see below)

Nicola Tesla Day

Teddy Bear Picnic Day

National Piña Colada Day

NATIONAL HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD

The Bahamas – Independence Day

Mongolia – Political Flag Day

On This Day in HISTORY

1746 – Bonnie Prince Charlie flees disguised as a wench to the Isle of Skye

1821 – The U.S. takes possession of Florida after buying it from Spain

1856 – Nikola Tesla, future electrifying inventor, is born

1882 – Texas Governor Jim Hogg names his new-born daughter Ima

(Keep going – The CLERIHEW story is a must-read!)

1913 – Death Valley CA, temp hits 134° – hottest recorded temperature on Earth

1925 – Opening Day of Scopes “Monkey Trial” over teaching evolution

1950 – Television show Your Hit Parade premiered

1962 – World’s first communications satellite, Telstar, launched into orbit

1965 – Wilson Pickett releases “In the Midnight Hour”

1985 – Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior sunk in Auckland by French agents

1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as first elected President of Russia

2002 – Peter Paul Rubens’ Massacre of the Innocents auctioned for $76.2 million

CLERIHEW: 

a four-line humorous biographical poem.

Novelist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956) invented the Clerihew when he was a 16-year-old student.

This was the original Clerihew:

Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.

RULES: 4 lines, 2 sets of rhyming couplets AA/BB, with person’s name in the first line, something about them in the poem, and it should be funny.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

So now, you know!