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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