What happened July 10?

Answer 1

• The television station WJAR signed on the air for the first time in Providence, Rhode Island.
• The 847th production closed at the Pasadena Playhouse, The Dove, by Willard Mack.
• The RMS Caronia was in her sixth day at dock in Southampton.
• Exhibition #413, Twentieth Century Italian Art was on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
• Mark Shera, the actor who played the character J.R. on the television series Barnaby Jones was born in Bayonne, New Jersey.
• The movies, The Fountainhead, with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, and Special Agent, starring William Eythe and Laura Elliot, opened at the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto, California.
• Singer Ronnie James Dio (Elf, Rainbow, and Black Sabbath) was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
• The USS Worcester joins in the search for a ship reported lost 400 miles due east of Savannah, Georgia.
• Red Byron #28 takes the checkered flag at the 40 lap Strictly Stock race on NASCAR's Daytona Beach-Road course, driving a 1949 Oldsmobile at an average speed of 80 mph, and winning a $5,000.00 purse.
• The Chicago Cubs play the Pirates at Pittsburgh, losing 2-6, and finishing last in the league.