What happened on June 10? There are more than 298 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About June 10
June 10 is the 162nd day of the year 2024. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 24th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Arabi, Georgia 31712 sunrise will occur at 06:27 AM and sunset will occur at 08:41 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Gemini. The modern birthstone for this month is Pearl while the mystical birthstone is Moonstone.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 233 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For June 10
- 1190Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- 1539Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
- 1619Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- 1624Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
- 1692Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”.
- 1719Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
- 1786A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
- 1793French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
- 1793The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
- 1805First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
- 1829The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
- 1838Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- 1854The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1871Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
- 1878League 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.
- 1886Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
- 1898Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
- 1918The Austro-Hungarian battleship Ship SMS sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
- 1924Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- 1925Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
- 1935Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
- 1935Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
- 1936The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
- 1940World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
- 1940World 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.
- 1942World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
- 1944In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
- 1944World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
- 1944World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
- 1945Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
- 1947Saab produces its first automobile.
- 1957John 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.
- 1965Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
- 1967Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1967The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
- 1977Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
- 1977James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
- 1980The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
- 1991The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
- 1996Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
- 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.
- 1999Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- 2001Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon’s first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
- 2002The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
- 2003The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Who Were Born On June 10?
- 1213Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289)
- 1632Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
- 1637Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
- 1657James Craggs the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
- 1688James Francis Edward Stuart (“The Old Pretender”), English-born claimant to the British throne (d. 1766)
- 1706John Dollond, English optician (d. 1761)
- 1710James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
- 1753William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
- 1803Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
- 1804Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
- 1819Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
- 1825Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 1864
- 1825Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
- 1832Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
- 1832Stephen Mosher Wood, American Politician (d. 1920)
- 1835Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (d. 1930)
- 1839Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
- 1840Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
- 1843Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
- 1862Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
- 1863Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist (d. 1923)
- 1865Frederick Albert Cook, American explorer and physician, claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1908 (d. 1940)
- 1880André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
- 1884Leone Sextus Tollemache, British Army captain (d. 1917)
- 1889Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
- 1891Al Dubin, American lyricist (d. 1945)
- 1894Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia Russian prince (d. 1918)
- 1895Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
- 1901Frederick Loewe, German-born Austrian-American composer (d. 1988)
- 1904Lin Huiyin, Chinese poet and architect (d.1955)
- 1907Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
- 1910Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1910Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player (d. 1976)
- 1910Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
- 1911Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichordist and musicologist (d. 1984)
- 1911Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
- 1912Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
- 1913Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
- 1913Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (d. 2007)
- 1915Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1918Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor (d. 2008)
- 1918Patachou, French singer
- 1919Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)
- 1919Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
- 1921Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1921Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II
- 1922Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
- 1923Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (d. 1991)
- 1925Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz critic, and columnist
- 1926Lionel Jeffries, British actor (d. 2010)
- 1927Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
- 1927Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
- 1928Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator of children’s literature
- 1929E. O. Wilson, American biologist
- 1929Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
- 1929Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
- 1929James McDivitt, American astronaut
- 1931João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
- 1932Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer
- 1933F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
- 1935Vic Elford, British racing driver
- 1938Violetta Villas, Polish singer and actress (d. 2011)
- 1940Augie Auer, U.S.-born New Zealand meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007)
- 1940John Stevens, British drummer (d. 1994)
- 1941David Walker, Australian racing driver
- 1941Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
- 1941Mickey Jones, American drummer (The First Edition) and actor
- 1941Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
- 1942Gordon Burns, Irish gameshow host and television presenter
- 1942Preston Manning, Canadian politician
- 1946Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
- 1947Ken Singleton, American baseball player
- 1949John Sentamu, Ugandan-born Archbishop of York
- 1949Kevin Corcoran, American actor
- 1950Elías Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1951Dan Fouts, American football player
- 1953John Edwards, American politician and lawyer
- 1954Rich Hall, American comedian
- 1955Andrew Stevens, American actor
- 1956Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1957Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
- 1957Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
- 1958Christos Dimopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1959Carlo Ancelotti, Italian football player and manager
- 1959Eliot Spitzer, American politician
- 1960Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
- 1960Maxi Priest, English reggae vocalist
- 1961Kelley Deal, American guitarist (The Breeders)
- 1961Kim Deal, American bassist (Pixies, The Breeders)
- 1962Akie Abe, former First Lady of Japan
- 1962Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (d. 1982)
- 1962Brent Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962Gina Gershon, American actress
- 1962Vincent Pérez, Swiss-born French actor and director
- 1962Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (Beyond) (d. 1993)
- 1963Brad Henry, American politician
- 1963Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
- 1964Ben Daniels, British actor
- 1964Jimmy Chamberlin, American drummer (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- 1964Kate Flannery, American actress
- 1964Tony Martin, Australian comedian
- 1965Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress
- 1965Joey Santiago, Filipino-American guitarist (Pixies)
- 1965Veronica Ferres, German actress
- 1966David Platt, English footballer
- 1967Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
- 1967John Yoo, American attorney
- 1968Bill Burr, American comedian
- 1968Derek Dooley, American football coach
- 1968Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
- 1968The D.O.C., American rapper
- 1969Kate Snow, American TV journalist
- 1969Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian football player
- 1970Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter (Soul Coughing)
- 1971Bobby Jindal, American politician, Governor of Louisiana
- 1971Bruno N'Gotty, French football player
- 1971Erik Rutan, American singer and guitarist (Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal) and record producer
- 1971Joel “JoJo” Hailey, American R&B singer (K-Ci & JoJo)
- 1971Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host and TV personality
- 1972Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
- 1972Steven Fischer, American film producer and director
- 1973Faith Evans, American singer
- 1973Flesh-N-Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
- 1973Pokey Reese, American baseball player
- 1975Altiyan Childs, Australian singer
- 1975Henrik Pedersen, Danish football player
- 1975Rebecca Cardon, American reality TV personality (The Amazing Race)
- 1975Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1976Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician
- 1976Freddy García, American baseball player
- 1976Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
- 1976Stefan Postma, Dutch football player
- 1977Adam Darski (Nergal), Polish vocalist and guitarist (Behemoth)
- 1977Dan-e-o, Canadian rapper
- 1977Enzo Emanuele, Italian medical researcher
- 1977Mike Rosenthal, American football player
- 1977Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
- 1978Brian West, U.S. football player
- 1978Shane West, American actor
- 1979Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-born Greek basketball player
- 1979Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek football player
- 1980Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian football player
- 1980Jessica DiCicco, American actress
- 1980Ovie Mughelli, American football player
- 1980Wang Yuegu, Singaporean table tennis player
- 1981Albie Morkel, South African cricketer
- 1981Burton O'Brien, Scottish football player
- 1981Hoku, American singer and actress
- 1981Jonathan Bennett, American actor
- 1981Mat Jackson, British racing driver
- 1981Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model
- 1981Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, Jordanian royalty
- 1982Ana Lucia Souza, Brazilian ballet dancer
- 1982Leelee Sobieski, American actress
- 1982Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, Swedish royalty
- 1982Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
- 1984Dean Leacock, English football player
- 1984Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
- 1984Johanna Kedzierski, German sprinter
- 1984Nicky Bailey, English footballer
- 1985Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist
- 1985Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
- 1985Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1985Vasilis Torosidis, Greek football player
- 1987Amobi Okoye, Nigerian/American football player
- 1987Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
- 1987Martin Harnik, German/Austrian footballer
- 1988Kelly Vitz, American actress
- 1988Patrik Lindberg, Swedish Counter-Strike player
- 1989Mustapha Carayol, Gambian/English footballer
- 1989Ryuya Wakaba, Japanese actor
- 1990Valeen Montenegro, Filipino actress
- 1992Kate Upton, American model
- 1993Vita Chambers, Canadian singer-songwriter
Who Died On June 10?
- 323 BCAlexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
- 1075Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
- 1190Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
- 1424Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
- 1552Alexander Barclay, English poet (b. c. 1476)
- 1556Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
- 1580Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (b. c. 1524)
- 1607John Popham, English politician (b. 1531)
- 1654Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
- 1680Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- 1692Bridget Bishop, English-born American alleged witch, the first person to be convicted and executed during the Salem witch trials (b. c. 1632)
- 1735Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
- 1776Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (b. 1736)
- 1776Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
- 1791Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
- 1831Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
- 1836André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
- 1849Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
- 1896Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
- 1898Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language (birth year unknown)
- 1899Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
- 1901Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
- 1902Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
- 1909Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
- 1912Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
- 1912Moore Family, Villisca Axe Murders
- 1918Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
- 1923Pierre Loti, French sailor (b. 1850)
- 1924Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist politician (b. 1885)
- 1926Antoni Gaudí, Spanish/Catalan architect (b. 1852)
- 1929Hélène Smith, French psychic (b. 1861)
- 1930Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
- 1934Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
- 1937Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
- 1940Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (b. 1887)
- 1944Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
- 1946Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878)
- 1947Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
- 1949Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
- 1958Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
- 1959Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
- 1963Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
- 1967Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- 1971Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
- 1973William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
- 1974Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
- 1976Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
- 1982Addie “Micki” Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940)
- 1982Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director and actor (b. 1945)
- 1986Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
- 1987Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
- 1988Louis L'Amour, American author (b. 1908)
- 1991Jean Bruller, French writer (b. 1902)
- 1992Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (b. 1931)
- 1992Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1970)
- 1993Arleen Auger, American soprano (b, 1939)
- 1993Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
- 1996George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
- 1996Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914)
- 1998Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
- 1998Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
- 2000Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
- 2000Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
- 2001Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
- 2001Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
- 2002John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
- 2003Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
- 2003Donald Regan, American Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
- 2003Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
- 2004Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930)
- 2004Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
- 2005Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
- 2007Augie Auer, American-born New Zealand meteorologist and TV presenter (b. 1940)
- 2008Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-born Soviet writer (b. 1928)
- 2009Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer (b. 1940)
- 2009Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
- 2010Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b. 1939)
- 2011Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)
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