 And it is time now for your highlights in history for this 10th day of July. On this date, 1890, Wyoming was admitted as the 44th U.S. state. 1925, jury selection took place in Dayton, Tennessee in the trial of John Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. 1929, I remember this, not really.