ON THIS DAY - JULY 10
AD 138: Hadrian, Roman Emperor who planned the great wall across northern Britain, died.
1099: Spanish warrior Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar - El Cid - died in Valencia, apparently of grief after defeat by the Moors.
1460: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians and captured Henry VI at the Battle of Northampton.
1553: Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England at the age of 16 - she lasted only nine days before being arrested and executed.
1834: American artist James McNeill Whistler, who made Chelsea his adopted home, was born in Massachusetts.
1871: Author Marcel Proust - A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (Remembrance Of Things Past) - was born in Paris.
1900: The Paris Metro opened.
1954: Gordon Richards rode his last mount - at Sandown - the 21,834th of his nearly 34-year-long career.
1958: The first parking meters in Britain were installed in London's Mayfair.
1962: Telstar I, the world's first television telecommunications satellite, was launched in America.
2011: The News of the World bade farewell to its readers after 168 years with the simple words ''Thank you & goodbye''.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A baby girl safely delivered in a broken-down lift was named Ella - after the elevator she was born in.
