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June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of the year.
[edit] Events
- 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.
- 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.
[edit] Births
- 1213 – Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289)
- 1632 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
- 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
- 1657 – James Craggs the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
- 1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart ("The Old Pretender"), English-born claimant to the British throne (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)
- 1819 – Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
- 1825 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
- 1825 – Princess Hildegard of Bavaria d. 1864
- 1832 – Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
- 1835 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator from Georgia, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate (d. 1930)
- 1839 – Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
- 1840 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
- 1843 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
- 1862 – Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
- 1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch novelist (d. 1923)
- 1880 – André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
- 1884 – Leone Sextus Tollemache, British Army captain (d. 1917)
- 1889 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
- 1891 – Al Dubin, American lyricist (d. 1945)
- 1894 – Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia Russian prince (d. 1918)
- 1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
- 1901 – Frederick Loewe, German-born Austrian-American composer (d. 1988)
- 1904 – Lin Huiyin, Chinese poet and architect (d.1955)
- 1907 – Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
- 1910 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player (d. 1976)
- 1910 – Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1910 – Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
- 1911 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichordist and musicologist (d. 1984)
- 1911 – Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977)
- 1912 – Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (d. 2007)
- 1913 – Benjamin Shapira, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
- 1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1918 – Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor (d. 2008)
- 1918 – Patachou, French singer
- 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, consort of Queen Elizabeth II
- 1921 – Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1922 – Judy Garland, American musical actress (d. 1969)
- 1923 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born British media proprietor and Member of Parliament (d. 1991)
- 1925 – Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz critic, and columnist
- 1926 – Lionel Jeffries, British actor (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
- 1927 – Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
- 1928 – Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator of children's literature
- 1929 – Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
- 1929 – E. O. Wilson, American biologist
- 1929 – James McDivitt, American astronaut
- 1931 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
- 1932 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer
- 1933 – F. Lee Bailey, American attorney
- 1935 – Vic Elford, British racing driver
- 1938 – Violetta Villas, Polish singer and actress
- 1940 – Augie Auer, U.S.-born New Zealand meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007)
- 1940 – John Stevens, British drummer (d. 1994)
- 1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, German actor
- 1941 – Mickey Jones, American drummer (The First Edition) and actor
- 1941 – Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
- 1941 – David Walker, Australian racing driver
- 1942 – Preston Manning, Canadian politician
- 1942 – Gordon Burns, Irish gameshow host and television presenter
- 1946 – Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
- 1947 – Ken Singleton, American baseball player
- 1949 – John Sentamu, Ugandan-born Archbishop of York
- 1950 – Elías Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball pitcher
- 1951 – Dan Fouts, American football player
- 1953 – John Edwards, American politician and lawyer
- 1954 – Rich Hall, American comedian
- 1955 – Andrew Stevens, American actor
- 1956 – Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1957 – Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
- 1957 – Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
- 1958 – Christos Dimopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American politician
- 1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, Italian football player and manager
- 1960 – Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
- 1960 – Maxi Priest, English reggae vocalist
- 1961 – Kim Deal, American bassist (Pixies, The Breeders)
- 1961 – Kelley Deal, American guitarist (The Breeders)
- 1962 – Gina Gershon, American actress
- 1962 – Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (Beyond) (d. 1993)
- 1962 – Vincent Pérez, Swiss-born French actor and director
- 1962 – Akie Abe, former First Lady of Japan
- 1962 – Brent Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 – Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (d. 1982)
- 1963 – Brad Henry, American politician
- 1963 – Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
- 1964 – Jimmy Chamberlin, American drummer (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- 1964 – Ben Daniels, British actor
- 1964 – Kate Flannery, American actress
- 1964 – Tony Martin, Australian comedian
- 1965 – Veronica Ferres, German actress
- 1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress
- 1965 – Joey Santiago, Filipino-American guitarist (Pixies)
- 1966 – David Platt, English footballer
- 1967 – John Yoo, American attorney
- 1967 – Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
- 1968 – Bill Burr, American comedian
- 1968 – Derek Dooley, American football coach
- 1968 – Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
- 1968 – The D.O.C., American rapper
- 1969 – Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian football player
- 1969 – Kate Snow, American TV journalist
- 1970 – Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter (Soul Coughing)
- 1971 – Joel "JoJo" Hailey, American R&B singer (K-Ci & JoJo)
- 1971 – Erik Rutan, American singer and guitarist (Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal) and record producer
- 1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician, Governor of Louisiana
- 1971 – Bruno N'Gotty, French football player
- 1971 – Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host and TV personality
- 1972 – Steven Fischer, American film producer and director
- 1972 – Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
- 1973 – Faith Evans, American singer
- 1973 – Pokey Reese, American baseball player
- 1973 – Flesh-N-Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
- 1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish football player
- 1975 – Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
- 1975 – Altiyan Childs, Australian singer
- 1975 – Rebecca Cardon, American reality TV personality (The Amazing Race)
- 1976 – Freddy García, American baseball player
- 1976 – Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
- 1976 – Stefan Postma, Dutch football player
- 1976 – Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician
- 1977 – Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
- 1977 – Adam Darski (Nergal), Polish vocalist and guitarist (Behemoth)
- 1977 – Mike Rosenthal, American football player
- 1977 – Enzo Emanuele, Italian medical researcher
- 1977 – Dan-e-o, Canadian rapper
- 1978 – Shane West, American actor
- 1978 – Brian West, U.S. football player
- 1979 – Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek football player
- 1979 – Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-born Greek basketball player
- 1980 – Jessica DiCicco, American actress
- 1980 – Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian football player
- 1980 – Ovie Mughelli, American football player
- 1980 – Wang Yuegu, Singaporean table tennis player
- 1981 – Jonathan Bennett, American actor
- 1981 – Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, Jordanian royalty
- 1981 – Hoku, American singer and actress
- 1981 – Mat Jackson, British racing driver
- 1981 – Albie Morkel, South African cricketer
- 1981 – Burton O'Brien, Scottish football player
- 1981 – Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model
- 1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
- 1982 – Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, Swedish royalty
- 1982 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress
- 1982 – Ana Lucia Souza, Brazilian ballet dancer
- 1983 – Josh Ramsay, Canadian singer (Marianas Trench)
- 1984 – Nicky Bailey, English footballer
- 1984 – Dean Leacock, English football player
- 1984 – Johanna Kedzierski, German sprinter
- 1984 – Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
- 1985 – Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
- 1985 – Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1985 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist
- 1985 – Vasilis Torosidis, Greek football player
- 1987 – Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
- 1987 – Martin Harnik, German/Austrian footballer
- 1987 – Amobi Okoye, Nigerian/American football player
- 1988 – Kelly Vitz, American actress
- 1989 – Mustapha Carayol, Gambian/English footballer
- 1989 – Ryuya Wakaba, Japanese actor
- 1990 – Valeen Montenegro, Filipino actress
- 1992 – Kate Upton, American model
- 1993 – Vita Chambers, Canadian singer-songwriter
[edit] Deaths
- 323 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
- 1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
- 1190 – Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
- 1424 – Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
- 1552 – Alexander Barclay, English poet (b. c. 1476)
- 1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
- 1580 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (b. c. 1524)
- 1607 – John Popham, English politician (b. 1531)
- 1654 – Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598)
- 1680 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
- 1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-born American alleged witch, the first person to be convicted and executed during the Salem witch trials (b. c. 1632)
- 1735 – Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
- 1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (b. 1736)
- 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)
- 1898 – Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language (birth year unknown)
- 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)
- 1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist politician (b. 1885)
- 1926 – Antoni Gaudí, Spanish/Catalan architect (b. 1852)
- 1929 – Hélène Smith, French psychic (b. 1861)
- 1930 – Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
- 1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862)
- 1937 – Robert Borden, 8th 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)
- 1963 – Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
- 1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- 1971 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
- 1973 – William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
- 1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
- 1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
- 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director and actor (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 – Jean Bruller, French writer (b. 1902)
- 1992 – Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1970)
- 1992 – Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (b. 1931)
- 1993 – Arleen Auger, American soprano (b, 1939)
- 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, American 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)
- 2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
- 2005 – Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
- 2007 – Augie Auer, American-born New Zealand meteorologist and TV presenter (b. 1940)
- 2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-born Soviet writer (b. 1928)
- 2009 – Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer (b. 1940)
- 2010 – Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b. 1939)
- 2011 – Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)
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