Today in History.....July 10

On this day in …

* 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore assumed the presidency, following the death of President Taylor

* 1919, President Wilson personally delivered the Treaty of Versailles to the Senate, and urged its ratification

* 1951, tarmistice talks aimed at ending the Korean conflict began at Kaesong

* 1973, the Bahamas became independent after three centuries of British colonial rule

* 1985, bowing to pressure from irate customers, Coca-Cola Co. said it would resume selling old-formula Coke, while continuing to sell New Coke

* 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic

* 1996, in a tough speech to the U.S. Congress laying out conditions for Mideast negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that Syria and the Palestinians stop terrorists from attacking Israel

* 2001, for the second time in a month, a jury in New York rejected the death penalty for one of the men convicted in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, opting instead for life in prison without parol