| 78301 | July 10 | Event | 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit. |
| 78302 | July 10 | Event | 1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary. |
| 78303 | July 10 | Event | 1967 – Uruguay becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
| 78304 | July 10 | Event | 1967 – New Zealand adopts decimal currency. |
| 78305 | July 10 | Event | 1973 – The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 78306 | July 10 | Event | 1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh. |
| 78307 | July 10 | Event | 1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy. |
| 78308 | July 10 | Event | 1976 – The Seveso disaster occurs in Italy. |
| 78309 | July 10 | Event | 1976 – One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial. |
| 78310 | July 10 | Event | 1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC. |
| 78311 | July 10 | Event | 1978 – President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état. |
| 78312 | July 10 | Event | 1980 – Alexandra Palace burns down for a second time. |
| 78313 | July 10 | Event | 1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira. |
| 78314 | July 10 | Event | 1991 – The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid. |
| 78315 | July 10 | Event | 1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia. |
| 78316 | July 10 | Event | 1992 – In Miami, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations. |
| 78317 | July 10 | Event | 1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago. |
| 78318 | July 10 | Event | 1997 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests. |
| 78319 | July 10 | Event | 1998 – Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest. |
| 78320 | July 10 | Event | 2000 – EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. |
| 78321 | July 10 | Event | 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson. |
| 78322 | July 10 | Event | 2005 – Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, causing billions of dollars in damage. |
| 78323 | July 10 | Event | 2007 – Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. |
| 78324 | July 10 | Event | 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes. |
| 78325 | July 10 | Event | 2011 – Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sunk in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, leading to 122 deaths. |
| 78326 | July 10 | Event | 2015 – The opening ceremony for the 2015 Pan American Games takes place in Toronto. |
| 78327 | July 10 | Birth | 1419 – Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471) |
| 78328 | July 10 | Birth | 1451 – James III of Scotland (d. 1488) |
| 78329 | July 10 | Birth | 1509 – John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (d. 1564) |
| 78330 | July 10 | Birth | 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571) |