June 10

Events1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph 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 Shiel1770 - 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. 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.1980 - Percy Wood, president of United Airlines, is injured by an exploding package sent by the Unabomber1990 - On June 10, a United Kingdom charter flight BAC 1-11 landed in Southampton Airport after its windshield had been blown due to faulty engineering. All crew members and passengers survived the near-death experience due to exquisite piloting by the co-pilot Alistair Atchison after the captain, Tim Lancaster had been thrust onto the front of the plane.1991 - In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm. 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. 1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold. 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Saint Rafqa2002 - First direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
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