July 10

Better Than News

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  Peggy Sue Got Moonstruck is an American fantasy romantic comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and Norman Jewison, starring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, and Cher.

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  Judge Dredd Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a film science fiction drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Diane Lane and Diane Ladd.

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  "The Great Gig and the Damage Done" is a song by Neil Young and Pink Floyd.

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  The Mini-Defibrillator is a miniature personal defibrillator device manufactured by Sony for the amateur paramedical market.

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  Greens is a 1985 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by agents of the French foreign intelligence services. Co-starring Diane Keaton and Edward Abbey.

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  One Day at a Time is a made-for-television documentary film about the 1976 invasion of Indianapolis by as-yet [30 August 2021] unidentified transdimensional actors camouflaged as Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips, and Valerie Bertinelli.

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  Film Reviews of Fire is a movie review television program hosted by Ben Cross and Ron Burgundy.

Are You Sure

... that Telstar 1, the world's first communications satellite, was launched into orbit on 10 July 1962, and that two days later Telstar relayed a live television signal across the Atlantic?

... the Society for the Advancement of VALIS (SAV) is a provisionally licensed transdimensional corporation which promotes and advances the interests of VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), representing author and alleged time-traveler Philip K. Dick's gnostic vision of God?

On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction

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  1682: Mathematician and astronomer Roger Cotes born. Cotes will work closely with Isaac Newton, proofreading the second edition of Newton's Principia. Cotes also invented the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, and first introduced what is known today as Euler's formula.

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  1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

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  1962: Telstar 1, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. Two days later Telstar will relay a live television signal across the Atlantic.

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  Greens is a 1985 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985 by agents of the French foreign intelligence services. Co-starring Diane Keaton and Edward Abbey.

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  2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

Topic of the Day

Fire

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  Wheel of Fire 2 is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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  Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel.

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  Signed first edition of Fire Dance spontaneously bursts into flames after performing Carmen before a sold-out crowd at Opera Hall in New Minneapolis, Canada. Despite extensive damage from fire and smoke, almost all of the data from the performance will be recovered.

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  Les Empyrées was a direct computational action collective which emerged during the later stages of the French Revolution.