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A bit of July 10th history…
1040 - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes (pictured)
1212 - The most severe fire of London burns most of the city to the ground
1553 - Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, proclaimed Queen of England; reigns for 9 days
1796 - Carl Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most 3 triangular numbers
1985 - French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand to prevent it from interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific
2019 - Earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa found with a 210,000 year old skull in southern Greece
Today In History: July 10