Title: June 10 Content: == Events == === Up to 1925 === * 1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor drowns in the River Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem. * 1329 - The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine Empire defeat against the Ottoman Empire. * 1523 - Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city does not recognize him as successor to Christian II of Denmark. * 1539 - Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the council due to war and the difficulty the bishops had in travelling to Venice. * 1596 - Bear Island, the southernmost island of Svalbard, is discovered by Willem Barentsz. * 1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Zablati, turning point in the Bohemian revolt. * 1692 – In Salem, Massachusetts Bridget Bishop becomes the first person to be executed during the Salem Witch Trials, for alleged witchcraft. * 1719 – Jacobite uprising: The Battle of Glen Shiel takes place. * 1770 – James Cook's ship HMS Endeavour runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. * 1786 - A landslide dam created by an earthquake ten days earlier, in Sichuan, China, collapses, killing 10,000 people. * 1793 - French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the committee of public safety, installing the revolutionary dictatorship. * 1829 – The Boat Race between Oxford University and Cambridge University takes place for the first time. * 1838 – Myall Creek Massacre: 28 Australian Aboriginals are killed. * 1854 – The First Class of US Naval Academy students graduate. * 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel - Confederate forces under John B. Magruder defeat a Union force under Ebenezer W. Pierce, in Virginia. * 1864 – American Civil War: A Confederate force under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the Union force under Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi. * 1865 – Wagner's opera, Tristan und Isolde first performed in Munich. * 1878 - The League of Prizren is founded in the Balkans. * 1886 – Mount Tarawera on New Zealand's North Island erupts, killing 153 people and destroys the famous Pink Terraces. * 1898 – Spanish-American War: US marines land on Cuba. * 1906 – William Hall-Jones replaces Richard Seddon as Prime Minister of New Zealand. * 1907 - The first Beijing to Paris car rally begins. It is the longest race of its kind in the world. * 1916 - Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. * 1918 – World War I: Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks, having been torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat. * 1924 – Fascists kill Italian socialist Giacomo Matteotti. * 1925 – The United Church of Canada is founded in Toronto. === 1926 2000 === * 1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio. * 1935 - The Chaco War ends, as a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay. * 1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces. * 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on the United Kingdom and France. * 1942 – World War II: The Nazis burn the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia. * 1944 – World War II: 642 people are killed by German troops in Oradour-sur-Glane in France. * 1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Greece, German troops kill 218 people. * 1944 – 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player in a Major League Baseball game. * 1945 - World War II: Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. * 1947 – Saab produces its first automobile. * 1955 – The foundation stone of CERN, on the Switzerland-France border, is laid. * 1957 – John Diefenbaker is elected Prime Minister of Canada. * 1967 – The Six-Day War ends. * 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 re-captured on June 13. * 1977 - Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale. * 1979 - The first election to the European Parliament takes place. * 1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight for imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela. * 1991 – The American military's Clark Air Base in the Philippines is evacuated, because of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. * 1991 – Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped by Philip Garrido in California. He holds her captive until 2009, and fathers two daughters with her. * 1996 – Peace negotiations begin in Northern Ireland, without the participation of Sinn Féin. * 1997 – Fleeing his main stronghold, former Cambodian dictator Pol Pot orders the killing of his former defense chief Son Sen, and of 11 of Sen's family members. * 1998 - The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France begins. * 1999 – NATO's air war over Kosovo ends, as Serbian forces withdraw. * 2000 – Syrian President Hafez al-Assad dies. His son Bashar al- Assad replaces him. * 2000 – UEFA Euro 2000 begins in the Netherlands and Belgium. === From 2001 === * 2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa. * 2002 - The first director electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Briton Kevin Warwick. * 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Explorer Rover System. * 2003 - Wicked begins on Broadway, later winning 40 awards. * 2005 – The Svinesund Bridge between Norway and Sweden is opened. * 2014 - Militants from the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant", affiliated with Al-Qaeda, take control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. * 2014 - Reuven Rivlin is chosen to succeed Shimon Peres as President of Israel. He is sworn in on July 24. * 2016 - The UEFA Euro 2016 football championship in France begins. * 2016 - American singer Christina Grimmie is shot at a concert in Orlando, Florida, and dies later the same evening, aged 22. == Births == === Up to 1900 === * 1213 – Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289) * 1493 – Anton Fugger, German banker (d. 1560) * 1513 - Louis, Duke of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1582) * 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1675) * 1657 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (d. 1921) * 1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart ("The Old Pretender"), claimant to the British throne (d. 1766) * 1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain (d. 1757) * 1716 - Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Swedish physician and explorer (d. 1784) * 1753 – William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825) * 1775 – James Barbour, American lawyer, politician and 19th Governor of Virginia (d. 1842) * 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) * 1832 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American politician (d. 1920) * 1835 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, American politician (d. 1930) * 1835 – Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1908) * 1839 – Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912) * 1839 - Ion Creanga, Romanian writer (d. 1889) * 1840 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920) * 1843 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900) * 1844 - Carl Hagenbeck, German zoo director (d. 1913) * 1855 - Charles Allen Culberson, Governor of Texas (d. 1925) * 1859 – Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian oil baron (d. 1932) * 1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch writer (d. 1923) * 1865 – Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer, claimed to be first at the North Pole (d. 1940) * 1870 - Constantin Angelescu, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1948) * 1876 - William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German aristocrat (d. 1923) * 1887 - Harry F. Byrd, Governor of Virginia (d. 1966) * 1891 - Al Dubin, American songwriter (d. 1945) * 1894 - Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (d. 1918) * 1895 – Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952) * 1895 - Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian-born psychoanalyst and author (d. 1979) * 1897 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) * 1899 - Stanislaw Czaykowski, Polish racing driver (d. 1933) === 1901 1950 === * 1901 – Frederick Loewe, German-born composer (d. 1988) * 1903 - Theo Lingen, German actor and director (d. 1978) * 1904 - Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955) * 1910 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer and musician (d. 1976) * 1911 - Terence Rattigan, British playwright (d. 1977) * 1912 - Jean Lesage, 11th Premier of Quebec (d. 1980) * 1915 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist (d. 2005) * 1916 - Peride Celal, Turkish novelist and short story writer (d. 2013) * 1918 - Patachou, French singer and actress (d. 2015) * 1918 - Barry Morse, English actor (d. 2008) * 1919 - Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (d. 2007) * 1919 - Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish footballer, rugby player and physician (d. 2006) * 1920 – Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (d. 2007) * 1921 - Jean Robic, French motorcycle racer (d. 1980) * 1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (d. 2021) * 1921 - Oskar Gröning, German SS member (d. 2018) * 1922 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969) * 1922 - Bill Kerr, Australian actor (d. 2014) * 1923 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (d. 1991) * 1924 - Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (d. 2014) * 1925 - James Salter, American writer (d. 2015) * 1925 - Leo Gravelle, Canadian ice hockey player * 1926 – Lionel Jeffries, British actor (d. 2010) * 1927 - Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician (d. 2013) * 1928 – Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator (d. 2012) * 1929 - E. O. Wilson, American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author * 1929 – Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (d. 2005) * 1929 - James McDivitt, American astronaut * 1929 - Lyudmila Zykina, Russian singer (d. 2009) * 1929 - Yevgeniy Chazov, Russian physician * 1930 - Aranka Siegal, Czech-born American writer and Holocaust survivor * 1930 - Ilya Glazunov, Russian painter (d. 2017) * 1930 - Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (d. 2013) * 1931 - Bryan Cartledge, English diplomat * 1931 – Joao Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist * 1932 - Philipp Jenninger, German politician (d. 2018) * 1933 – Georgi Atanasov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria * 1934 - Alois Mock, Austrian politician (d. 2017) * 1936 - Eugenio Bersellini, Italian footballer (d. 2017) * 1938 – Violetta Villas, Belgian-born Polish singer, songwriter, composer and actress (d. 2011) * 1939 - Joe Bossano, former Chief Minister of Gibraltar * 1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, German actor * 1941 – Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles) * 1941 - Mickey Jones, American drummer and actor * 1942 - Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Scottish judge * 1942 - Lopo do Nascimento, 1st Prime Minister of Angola * 1943 - Simon Jenkins, English journalist * 1943 - Edward Peel, English actor * 1944 - Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-born Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972) * 1947 - Nicole Bricq, French politician (d. 2017) * 1949 - Frankie Faison, American actor * 1949 – John Sentamu, Archbishop of York * 1949 - Kevin Corcoran, American actor (d. 2015) === 1951 1975 === * 1953 – John Edwards, American politician * 1953 - Bill Longmuir, Scottish golfer * 1954 - Rich Hall, American comedian and writer * 1955 – Annette Schavan, German politician * 1956 – Rolandas Paksas, former President of Lithuania * 1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and football manager * 1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American politician, former Governor of New York * 1960 – Mark-Anthony Turnage, English composer * 1960 – Maxi Priest, English singer * 1961 - Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician * 1962 – Gina Gershon, American actress * 1962 - Akie Abe, wife of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe * 1963 - Nadia Hasnaoui, Norwegian television presenter * 1963 - Brad Henry, American politician, 26th Governor of Oklahoma * 1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress * 1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician * 1964 - Stuart McCall, Scottish footballer and manager * 1964 – Kate Flannery, American actress * 1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, British actress * 1965 - Veronica Ferres, German actress * 1965 - Joey Santiago, Filipino-American musician and songwriter * 1966 – David Platt, English footballer * 1967 - Paul Maskey, Northern Irish politician * 1967 - Heimir Hallgrímsson, Icelandic dentist and football coach * 1968 - Bill Burr, American comedian and writer * 1969 – Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer * 1969 - Helen Young, English television presenter * 1969 - Jane Hill, English television journalist * 1970 - Chris Coleman, Welsh footballer and coach * 1970 - Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer, director and producer * 1971 – Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer * 1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician, former Governor of Louisiana * 1973 – Faith Evans, American singer * 1974 - Dustin Lance Black, American director, producer and screenwriter * 1974 - Simon Elliott, New Zealand footballer * 1974 - Mohamed Emara, Egyptian footballer * 1975 – Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer * 1975 - Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper === From 1976 === * 1976 - George Friedrich, Prince of Prussia * 1978 – Shane West, American musician and actor * 1979 - Assi Azar, Israeli television host * 1980 - Wang Yaegu, Singaporean table tennis player * 1980 - Jessica DiCicco, American actress * 1981 – Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein of Jordan * 1981 – Nicky Whelan, Australian actress and model * 1982 - Laleh Pourkarim, Iranian-Swedish singer * 1982 – Princess Madeleine of Sweden * 1982 – Tara Lipinski, American figure skater * 1983 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress * 1983 - Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer * 1983 - Marion Barber III, American football player * 1985 - Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player * 1985 - Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player * 1985 – Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer * 1985 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist * 1986 - Keith Harkin, Irish singer-songwriter and actor * 1987 – Martin Harnik, Austrian footballer * 1989 – Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer * 1991 - Juan Jesus, Brazilian footballer * 1992 - Kate Upton, American model and actress * 1994 - Annefleur Kalvenhaar, Dutch cyclist (d. 2014) * 1996 - Kristjan Ilves, Estonian skier * 1999 - Blanche, Belgian singer * 2001 – Sasha Obama, daughter of Barack Obama == Deaths == === Up to 1900 === * 323 BC – Alexander the Great (b. c. 355 BC) * 38 – Julia Drusilla, sister of Caligula (b. 16) * 223 - Liu Bei, Chinese Emperor (b. 161) * 1075 – Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027) * 1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (Frederick Barbarossa) (b. 1122) * 1556 – Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486) * 1580 – Luis de Camoes, Portuguese poet * 1654 - Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (b. 1598) * 1680 – Johan Goransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635) * 1692 – Bridget Bishop, English-born alleged witch (b. 1632) * 1776 – Hsinbyushin, Burmese King (b. 1736) * 1799 - Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1745) * 1811 - Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, German aristocrat (b. 1728) * 1836 – Andre-Marie Ampere, French mathematician (b. 1775) * 1896 – Amelia Dyer, British murderer of babies (b. 1829) * 1898 - Tuone Udaina, Croatian- Italian barber, last speaker of the Dalmatian language * 1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855) === 1901 2000 === * 1902 – Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845) * 1903 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician, statistician and politician (b. 1830) * 1906 – Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845) * 1918 - Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842) * 1923 - Pierre Loti, French soldier and author (b. 1850) * 1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, Italian Socialist politician (b. 1885) * 1926 – Antoni Gaudi, Catalan architect (b. 1852) * 1930 - Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian (b. 1851) * 1934 – Frederick Delius, English composer (b. 1862) * 1937 – Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854) * 1940 – Marcus Garvey, African American publicist and political activist (b. 1887) * 1946 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (b. 1878) * 1949 – Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer (b. 1882) * 1955 - Margaret Abbott, American golfer (b. 1876) * 1962 - Francisco Bru, Spanish footballer, coach and referee (b. 1885) * 1967 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900) * 1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900) * 1976 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (b. 1873) * 1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director and actor (b. 1945) * 1988 – Louis L'Amour, American writer (b. 1908) * 1992 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese composer and pianist (b. 1931) * 1993 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934) * 1996 - Jo Van Fleet, American actress (b. 1914) * 1998 – Hammond Innes, English actor (b. 1914) * 2000 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930) === From 2001 === * 2001 - Leila Pahlavi, daughter of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (b. 1970) * 2002 – John Gotti, American criminal (b. 1940) * 2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929) * 2004 – Ray Charles, American singer (b. 1930) * 2004 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904) * 2007 – Laurence Mancuso, American religious leader (b. 1934) * 2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyz writer (b. 1928) * 2010 – Ferdinand Oyono, Cameroonian writer (b. 1929) * 2010 – Sigmar Polke, German painter (b. 1941) * 2011 - Patrick Leigh Fermor, British soldier and writer (b. 1915) * 2012 – George Saitoti, Kenyan politician (b. 1945) * 2013 - Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer (b. 1922) * 2013 - Barbara Vucanovich, American politician (b. 1921) * 2014 - Gerald Nicholas McAllister, American Anglican prelate (b. 1923) * 2015 - Wolfgang Jeschke, German science fiction writer (b. 1936) * 2015 - Robert Chartoff, American movie producer (b. 1933) * 2016 - Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1928) * 2016 - Alex Govan, Scottish footballer (b. 1929) * 2016 - Habib, Iranian singer (b. 1952) * 2016 - Mary Feik, American aviatrix (b. 1924) * 2016 - Alexander Gorlov, Russian politician (b. 1931) * 2016 - Gopal Gurung, Nepalese politician and author (b. 1935) * 2016 - Alfred Oftedal Telhaug, Norwegian educator (b. 1934) * 2016 - Giuseppe Virgili, Italian footballer (b. 1935) * 2016 - Christina Grimmie, American singer (b. 1994) * 2017 - Chi Po-lin, Taiwanese photographer and director (b. 1964) * 2017 - Austin Deasy, Irish politician (b. 1936) * 2017 - Samuel V. Wilson, American army general (b. 1923) * 2017 - Helen Freedhoff, Canadian theoretical physicist (b. 1940) * 2018 - Neal E. Boyd, American pop singer and reality show contestant (b. 1975) * 2018 - Liliana Ross, Italian-Chilean actress (b. 1939) * 2019 - Girish Karnad, Indian actor, writer and director (b. 1938) * 2019 - Lee Hee-ho, First Lady of South Korea (b. 1922) * 2019 - Crazy Mohan, Indian comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1952) * 2019 - Paul "Lil' Buck" Sinegal, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (b. 1944) * 2019 - Wang Jun, Chinese business executive (b. 1941) == Observances == * Day of Camoes, Portugal Day (Portugal) * Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo) * Army Day (Jordan) * Abolition Day (French Guiana) Category:Days of the year