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Day of the year
June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 204 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1190 - Third Crusade : Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River 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 had traveling to Venice.1619 - Thirty Years' War : Battle of Záblatí , a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt .1692 - Salem witch trials : Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts , for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".1719 - Battle of Glen Shiel 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef .1793 - The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris (becoming, a year later, the first public zoo ).1793 - French Revolution : Following arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship .
1805 - First Barbary War : Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States .1829 - First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge .1838 - Myall Creek Massacre in Australia : 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.1846 - Mexican-American War : The California Republic declares independence from Mexico .1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.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 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island , Korea .1886 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand , killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces .1898 - Spanish-American War : US Marines land on the island of Cuba .1918 - Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan 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 Toronto arena1935 - Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron , Ohio , United States , by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob.1940 - World War II : Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom .1940 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with "Stab in the Back" speech from the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia .
1940 - World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel , reach the English Channel .
1940 - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy .
1940 - World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces.
1941 - Rudolf Heß crashes a Luftwaffe fighter-bomber in England in an attempt to put an end to World War 2 .1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as 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 children,women and men were 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 landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei .1947 - Saab produces its first automobile .1965 - Vietnam War : Battle of Dong Xoai begins.1967 - Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty .
1973 - John Paul Getty III , grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty , is kidnapped in Rome , Italy .1977 - James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee , but is recaptured on June 13 .1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
1978 - Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty .1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela .1992 - Fatal ambush of U.S. Army Humvee in Panama on eve of President George H. W. Bush 's visit to that country1996 - Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin .
Births
1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi , Persian philosopher1632 - Esprit Fléchier , French writer and bishop (d. 1710 )1637 - Jacques Marquette , French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675 )1657 - James Cragg the Elder , British politician (d. 1721 )1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart (d. 1766 )1706 - John Dollond , English optician (d. 1761 )1710 - James Short , Scottish mathematician (d. 1768 )1753 - William Eustis , 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825 )1803 - Henry Darcy , French scientist (d. 1858 )1804 - Hermann Schlegel , German ornithologist (d. 1884 )1825 - Sondre Norheim , Norwegian skier (d. 1897 )1819 - Gustave Courbet , French painter (d. 1877 )1825 - Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 18641835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton , U.S. Senator (d. 1930 )1839 - Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg , Council President of Denmark (d. 1912 )1861 - Pierre Duhem , French physicist (d. 1916 )1862 - Mrs. Leslie Carter , American actress (d. 1937 )1863 - Louis Couperus , Dutch novelist (d. 1923 )1880 - André Derain , French painter (d. 1954 )1889 - Sessue Hayakawa , Japanese actor (d. 1973 )1895 - Hattie McDaniel , American actress (d. 1952 )1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia (d. 1918 )1901 - Frederick Loewe , Austrian-born composer (d. 1988 )1907 - Fairfield Porter , American painter (d. 1975 )1908 - Robert Cummings , American actor (d. 1990 )1910 - Howlin' Wolf , American musician (d. 1976 )1910 - Frank Demaree , American baseball player (d. 1958 )
1910 - Robert Still , English composer (d. 1971 )
1911 - Terence Rattigan , British playwright (d. 1977 )1912 - Jean Lesage , Premier of Quebec (d. 1980 )1913 - Tikhon Khrennikov , Russian composer1915 - Saul Bellow , Nobel laureate (d. 2005 )1918 - Barry Morse , British-born Canadian actor (d. 2008 )1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan , Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006 )1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi , Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007 )1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921 - Jean Robic , French cyclist (d. 1980 )
1922 - Judy Garland , American musical actress (d. 1969 )1923 - Robert Maxwell , Slovakian-born newspaperman (d. 1991 )1925 - Nat Hentoff , American historian, novelist, jazz critic, and columnist1926 - Lionel Jeffries , British actor1927 - Lin Yang-kang , Chinese politician1927 - Ladislao Kubala , Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002 )
1928 - Maurice Sendak , American writer1929 - Harald Juhnke , German actor and comedian (d. 2005 )1929 - Ian McCahon Sinclair , Australian politician
1929 - E. O. Wilson , American biologist
1931 - João Gilberto , Brazilian singer and guitarist1932 - Branko Lustig , film producer1933 - Georgi Atanasov , Bulgarian Prime Minister1933 - F. Lee Bailey , American attorney
1935 - Vic Elford , British racing driver1940 - Augie Auer , Meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007 )1940 - John Stevens , British drummer (d. 1994 )
1941 - Jürgen Prochnow , German actor1941 - Mickey Jones , American musician and actor
1941 - Shirley Owens , American singer (Shirelles )
1941 - David Walker , Australian racing driver
1942 - Preston Manning , Canadian politician1947 - Ken Singleton , American baseball player1949 - John Sentamu , Archbishop of York1950 - Elias Sosa , Major League Baseball pitcher1951 - Dan Fouts , American football player1953 - John Edwards , American politician1956 - Georg Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg , head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1957 - Lindsay Hoyle , British politician1957 - Hidetsugu Aneha , Japanese architect
1959 - Eliot Spitzer , American politician1959 - Carlo Ancelotti , A.C. Milan coach
1960 - Balakrishna Nandamuri , Indian actor1961 - Kim Deal , American musician (Pixies ), (The Breeders )1961 - Kelley Deal , American musician (The Breeders )
1962 - Gina Gershon , American actress1962 - Koma Wong Ka-Kui , Hong Kong musician (Beyond ) (d. 1993 )
1962 - Vincent Perez , Swiss actor
1962 - Akie Abe , current First Lady of Japan
1963 - Brad Henry , American politician (current Oklahoma governor)1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn , American actress
1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin , American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins )1964 - Ben Daniels , British actor
1964 - Tony Martin , Australian comedian
1965 - Elizabeth Hurley , British actress1966 - David Platt , English footballer1967 - Emma Anderson , British guitarist and songwriter (Lush , Sing-Sing )1968 - Jimmy Shea , American skeleton racer1968 - The D.O.C. , American rapper
1969 - Ronny Johnsen , Norwegian footballer1969 - Kate Snow , American TV journalist
1970 - Mike Doughty , American singer1971 - Bobby Jindal , Louisiana Congressman, Governor
1971 - Joel Hailey , American singer1971 - Bruno N'Gotty , French footballer
1971 - Kyle Sandilands , Australian radio host and TV personality
1972 - Steven Fischer , American film producer and director1972 - Radmila Šekerinska , Macedonian politician1973 - Faith Evans , American singer1973 - Pokey Reese , American baseball player
1973 - Flesh-N-Bone , American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony )
1975 - Henrik Pedersen , Danish footballer1975 - Risto Jussilainen , Finnish ski jumper
1976 - Freddy García , American baseball player1976 - Hadi Saei Bonehkohal , Persian taekwondoka
1976 - Stefan Postma , Dutch footballer
1976 - Esther Ouwehand , Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
1977 - Takako Matsu , Japanese singer and actress1978 - Shane West , American actor1978 - Brian West , American soccer player
1979 - Konstantinos Loumpoutis , Greek footballer1979 - Jake Tsakalidis , Georgian-Greek basketball player
1980 - Francelino Matuzalem , Brazilian footballer1980 - Jessica Di Cicco , American actress
1981 - Burton O'Brien , Scottish footballer1981 - Hoku , American singer and actress
1981 - Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein , of Jordan
1981 - Jonathan Bennett , actor (Mean Girls )
1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden1982 - Tara Lipinski , American figure skater
1983 - Leelee Sobieski , American actress1985 - Kristina Lundberg , Swedish ice hockey player1985 - Vasilis Torosidis , Greek footballer
1987 - Amobi Okoye , Nigeria-born American football player1987 - Martin Harnik , Austrian footballer
1990 - Sam Williams , Prophet sent from God
Deaths
323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC )1075 - Ernest of Austria (b. 1027 )1190 - Frederick Barbarossa , Holy Roman Emperor (drowned) (b. 1122 )1424 - Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377 )1552 - Alexander Barclay , English poet1556 - Martin Agricola , German composer (b. 1486 )1580 - Luís de Camões , Portuguese poet1607 - John Popham , English politician1654 - Alessandro Algardi , Italian sculptor (b. 1598 )1680 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna , Swedish statesman (b. 1635 )1735 - Thomas Hearne , English antiquarian (b. 1678 )1776 - Leopold Widhalm , Austrian luthier (b. 1722 )1791 - Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte , French admiral (b. 1720 )1831 - Hans Karl von Diebitsch , Russian field marshal (b. 1785 )1836 - André-Marie Ampère , French physicist (b. 1775 )1849 - Thomas Robert Bugeaud , Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784 )1896 - Amelia Dyer , English murderer (b. 1829 )1899 - Ernest Chausson , French composer (b. 1855 )1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan , British dramatist (b. 1841 )1902 - Jacint Verdaguer , Catalan poet (b. 1845 )1909 - Edward Everett Hale , American author (b. 1822 )1912 - Anton Aškerc , Slovenian poet (b. 1856 )1918 - Arrigo Boito , Italian composer (b. 1842 )1923 - Pierre Loti , French sailor (b. 1850 )1926 - Antoni Gaudí , Spanish, Catalan architect (b. 1852 )1930 - Adolf Harnack , German theologian (b. 1851 )1934 - Frederick Delius , English composer (b. 1862 )1937 - Robert Borden , eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854 )1940 - Marcus Garvey , American civil rights activist (b. 1887 )1944 - Willem Jacob van Stockum , Dutch physicist (b. 1910 )1946 - Jack Johnson , American boxer (b. 1878 )1947 - Alexander Bethune , Canadian politician (b. 1852 )1949 - Sigrid Undset , Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882 )1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke , American journalist (b. 1880 )1959 - Zoltán Meskó , Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883 )1967 - Spencer Tracy , American actor (b. 1900 )1971 - Michael Rennie , English actor (b. 1909 )1973 - William Inge , American playwright (b. 1913 )1973 - Erich von Manstein , German military commander (b. 1887 )
1974 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900 )1976 - Adolph Zukor , Hungarian-born producer (b. 1873 )1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German author (b. 1945 )1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris , American singer (Shirelles ) (b. 1940 )
1986 - Merle Miller , American biographer (b. 1919 )1987 - Elizabeth Hartman , American actress (b. 1943 )1988 - Louis L'Amour , American author (b. 1908 )1991 - Vercors , French writer (b. 1902 )1992 - U.S. Army Sgt. Zak Hernández (b. 1973 )1993 - Les Dawson , English Comedian (b. 1934 )1996 - George Hees , Canadian politician (b. 1910 )1996 - Jo Van Fleet , American actress (b. 1914 )
1998 - Hammond Innes , English author (b. 1914 )1998 - Jim Hearn , American baseball player (b. 1921 )
2000 - Hafez al-Assad , President of Syria (b. 1930 )2000 - Brian Statham , English cricketer (b. 1930 )
2001 - Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970 )2001 - Mike Mentzer , American bodybuilder (b. 1951 )
2002 - John Gotti , American gangster (b. 1940 )2003 - Donald Regan , Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918 )2003 - Bernard Williams , English philosopher (b. 1929 )
2003 - Dr Phil Williams , Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939 )
2004 - Ray Charles , American musician (b. 1930 )2005 - Curtis Pitts , American aircraft designer (b. 1915 )2007 - Augie Auer , Meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940 )
Holidays and observances
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