JULY 10TH

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Today is Thursday, July 10, the 192nd day of 2008. There are 174 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

• On this day in 1992 INSAT-2A, the first satellite of the indigenously-built second-generation INSAT series was launched.

On this date:

• In 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency, taking the oath of office following the death of President Zachary Taylor.
• In 1890, Wyoming became the 44th state.
• In 1908, William Jennings Bryan was nominated for president by the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
• In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratification.
• In 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong.
• In 1962, the Telstar communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
• In 1973, the Bahamas became fully independent after three centuries of British colonial rule.
• In 1978, ABC-TV launched its reformatted evening newscast, "World News Tonight," with anchors Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings and Max Robinson.
• In 1985, bowing to pressure from irate customers, the Coca-Cola Co. said it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke.
• In 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

Ten years ago:

• The Diocese of Dallas agreed to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who said they'd been molested by a priest.

Five years ago:

• During a visit to Botswana, President Bush pledged to the nation with the world's highest AIDS infection rate that it would have a strong partner in his administration in fighting the disease.
• Spain opened its first mosque in 500 years.
• Astronomers announced they had found the oldest and most distant planet yet, a huge, gaseous sphere 13 billion years old and 5,600 light years away.
• Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg, died in Cowbeech, England, at age 101.

One year ago:

• China executed the former head of its food and drug agency for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash.
• A judge in Los Angeles sentenced pizza deliveryman Chester Turner to death for murdering 10 women and a fetus during the 1980s and '90s.
• The American League defeated the National League 5-4 in the All-Star baseball game.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette, 57, died in an auto accident near Holly Springs, Miss.

Today's Birthdays:

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver is 87.
• Former boxer Jake LaMotta is 87.
• Writer-producer Earl Hamner Jr. is 85.
• Former New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins is 81.
• Actor William Smithers is 81.
• Broadway composer Jerry Herman is 77.
• Director Ivan Passer is 75.
• Actor Lawrence Pressman is 69.
• Singer Mavis Staples is 69.
• Actor Mills Watson is 68.
• Actor Robert Pine is 67.
• Rock musician Jerry Miller (Moby Grape) is 65.
• Tennis player Virginia Wade is 63.
• Actor Ron Glass is 63.
• Actress Sue Lyon is 62.
• Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 61.
• Rock musician Dave Smalley is 59.
• Country-folk singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler is 57.
• Rock singer Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) is 54.
• Banjo player Bela Fleck is 50.
• Country musician Shaw Wilson (BR549) is 48.
• Country singer-songwriter Ken Mellons is 43.
• Rock musician Peter DiStefano (Porno for Pyros) is 43.
• Country singer Gary LeVox (Rascal Flats) is 38.
• Actress Sofia Vergara is 36.
• Actor Adrian Grenier is 32.
• Actor Thomas Ian Nicholas is 28.
• Singer-actress Jessica Simpson is 28.

Thought for Today:

"There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth: those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it."
Germaine de Stael, French author (1766-1817).

"Let's all be careful out there!"