June 10 Events |
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| June 10th, 2008 (June 10 2008) | Event | The Gora Prai airstrike by the United States reportedly kills 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops. | |
| June 10th, 2003 (June 10 2003) | Event | The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA s Mars Exploration Rover mission. | |
| June 10th, 2002 (June 10 2002) | Event | The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom. | |
| June 10th, 2001 (June 10 2001) | Event | Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon s first female saint Saint Rafqa | |
| June 10th, 1999 (June 10 1999) | Event | Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milosevic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. | |
| June 10th, 1997 (June 10 1997) | Event | 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. | |
| June 10th, 1996 (June 10 1996) | Event | Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Fein. | |
| June 10th, 1980 (June 10 1980) | Event | The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela. | Nelson Mandela Quotes |
| June 10th, 1978 (June 10 1978) | Event | Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| June 10th, 1977 (June 10 1977) | Event | James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13. | |
| June 10th, 1977 (June 10 1977) | Event | Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer. | |
| June 10th, 1974 (June 10 1974) | Event | Brandon Ramirez, noted visionary and graphics designer born in TJ, Mexico. Known as the father of Rambo the next generation. | |
| June 10th, 1973 (June 10 1973) | Event | John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy. | |
| June 10th, 1967 (June 10 1967) | Event | Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. | |
| June 10th, 1967 (June 10 1967) | Event | Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| June 10th, 1965 (June 10 1965) | Event | Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins. | |
| June 10th, 1947 (June 10 1947) | Event | Saab produces its first automobile. | |
| June 10th, 1945 (June 10 1945) | Event | Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. | |
| June 10th, 1944 (June 10 1944) | Event | World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France. | |
| June 10th, 1944 (June 10 1944) | Event | World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. | |
| June 10th, 1944 (June 10 1944) | Event | In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game. | |
| June 10th, 1942 (June 10 1942) | Event | World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich. | Reinhard Heydrich Quotes |
| June 10th, 1940 (June 10 1940) | Event | World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom. | |
| June 10th, 1940 (June 10 1940) | Event | 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. | |
| June 10th, 1940 (June 10 1940) | Event | World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel. | Erwin Rommel Quotes |
| June 10th, 1940 (June 10 1940) | Event | World War II: Canada declares war on Italy. | |
| June 10th, 1940 (June 10 1940) | Event | World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces. | |
| June 10th, 1935 (June 10 1935) | Event | Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson. | |
| June 10th, 1925 (June 10 1925) | Event | Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena. | |
| June 10th, 1924 (June 10 1924) | Event | Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome. | |
| June 10th, 1918 (June 10 1918) | Event | The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat. | |
| June 10th, 1898 (June 10 1898) | Event | Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba. | |
| June 10th, 1886 (June 10 1886) | Event | Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces. | |
| June 10th, 1871 (June 10 1871) | Event | Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea. | |
| June 10th, 1864 (June 10 1864) | Event | 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. | |
| June 10th, 1854 (June 10 1854) | Event | The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate. | |
| June 10th, 1838 (June 10 1838) | Event | Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered. | |
| June 10th, 1829 (June 10 1829) | Event | The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place. | |
| June 10th, 1805 (June 10 1805) | Event | First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States. | |
| June 10th, 1793 (June 10 1793) | Event | The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo. | |
| June 10th, 1793 (June 10 1793) | Event | French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship. | |
| June 10th, 1786 (June 10 1786) | Event | A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China. | |
| June 10th, 1770 (June 10 1770) | Event | Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. | |
| June 10th, 1719 (June 10 1719) | Event | Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel. | |
| June 10th, 1692 (June 10 1692) | Event | Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries". | |
| June 10th, 1619 (June 10 1619) | Event | Thirty Years War: Battle of Zablati, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt. | |
| June 10th, 1539 (June 10 1539) | Event | 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. | |
| June 10th, 1190 (June 10 1190) | Event | Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem. | |
