June
10
Events
June 10
1190 – Third
Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while
leading an army to Jerusalem.
1539 – Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops,
delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had
traveling to Venice.
1619 – Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point
in the Bohemian Revolt.
1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and
the Netherlands.
1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows
Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable
Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1719 – Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake
ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province
of China.
1793 – The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year
later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 – French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin
leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public
Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
1805 – First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending
the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford
and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1838 – Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians
are murdered.
1854 – The first class of the United States Naval Academy students
graduate.
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate
troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force
led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads. Confederate
troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union
force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1871 – Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines
in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions
of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as
a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being
partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro,
Bulgaria and Greece.
1886 – Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people
and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1898 – Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island
of Cuba.
1918 – The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks
after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
1924 – Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo
Matteotti in Rome.
1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a
union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches,
held in the Toronto Arena.
1935 – Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics
Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and
Bill Wilson.
1935 – Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and
Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
1940 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces
Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech
at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice
in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1944 – World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed
in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece
218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati
Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate
Brunei.
1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party
of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election,
1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright
treaty.
1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison
in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1977 – Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes
a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1991 – The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation
of Sinn Féin.
1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader
Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and
11 of Sen's family members.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan
Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint,
Saint Rafqa.
2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment
between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by
Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration
Rover mission.
Holidays
and observances
Abolition
Day (French Guiana)
Army Day (Jordan)
Christian Feast Day:
Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus
John of Tobolsk
Landry of Paris
Olivia
June 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese
communities)
Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo)
The Queen's Birthday (Solomon Islands)
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