June 10Birthdays & History

On this day: June 10 in history

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1. 671Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.Asia
2. 1190Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.Middle East
3. 1225Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of Dominican friars to Morocco.EuropeAfrica
4. 1329The Battle of Pelekanon is the last attempt of the Byzantine Empire to retain its cities in Asia Minor.EuropeAsia
5. 1358Battle of Mello: The peasant forces of the Jacquerie are crushed by the army of the French nobility.Europe
6. 1422Ottoman Sultan Murad II besieges Constantinople, but is ultimately unsuccessful.Middle East
7. 1523Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.Europe
8. 1539Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.Europe
9. 1596Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.Europe
10. 1619Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.Europe
11. 1624Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.Europe
12. 1692Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries".North America
13. 1719Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.Europe
14. 1782King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.Asia
15. 1786A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.Asia
16. 1793The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.Europe
17. 1793French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.Europe
18. 1805First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.North America
19. 1829The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.Europe
20. 1838Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.Oceania
21. 1854The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.North America
22. 1861American 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.North America
23. 1863During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.EuropeLatin America
24. 1864American 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.North America
25. 1868Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.Europe
26. 1871Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.North AmericaAsia
27. 1873Russian forces under General von Kaufmann capture the city of Khiva from the Khanate of Khiva.Europe
28. 1878League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.North AmericaEurope
29. 1886Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17 km (11 mi) long fissure across the mountain peak.Oceania
30. 1898Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.EuropeNorth AmericaLatin America
31. 1916The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire is declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.Middle East
32. 1918World War I: The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.Europe
33. 1924Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.Europe
34. 1935Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.North America
35. 1935Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.Latin America
36. 1940World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, beginning an invasion of southern France.Europe
37. 1940World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.North AmericaEurope
38. 1940World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.Europe
39. 1942World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.Europe
40. 1944World War II: Six hundred forty-three men, women and children are massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.Europe
41. 1944In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.North America
42. 1944World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 228 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.Europe
43. 1945World War II: Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.OceaniaAsia
44. 1947Saab produces its first automobile.Europe
45. 1957John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.North America
46. 1960Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 crashes near Mackay Airport in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, killing 29.Oceania
47. 1963The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, is signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.North America
48. 1964United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.North America
49. 1967The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.Middle East
50. 1977James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.North America
51. 1980The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.AfricaNorth America
52. 1982Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.Middle East
53. 1987June Democratic Struggle: The June Democratic Struggle starts in South Korea, and people protest against the government.Asia
54. 1990British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.Europe
55. 1991Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.North America
56. 1994China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.Asia
57. 1996Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.Europe
58. 1997Before 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.Asia
59. 1999Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.Europe
60. 2001Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.EuropeMiddle East
61. 2002The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.Europe
62. 2003The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.North America
63. 2008Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.Africa
64. 2009Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.North America
65. 2018The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.World
66. 2024A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.Africa
67. 2025Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.Europe

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