Notable Historical Events on June 10th
June 10th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1190 |
Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (now called the Göksu in modern Turkey) while leading an army to Jerusalem. |
1358 |
French Jacquerie peasant leader Guillaume Cale captured at the Battle of Mello |
1538 |
Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neuremberg |
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. |
1540 |
Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminster |
1605 |
False Dimitri I, an impostor, crowned Russian tsar (rules 1605-1606) |
1610 |
Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia |
1610 |
1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island |
1619 |
Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt. |
1624 |
Netherlands & France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiègne |
1627 |
Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador |
1639 |
1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware) |
1648 |
Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov |
1652 |
In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America |
1682 |
Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3 ft diameter oak tree |
1719 |
Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel. |
1720 |
Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard |
1760 |
NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine |
1761 |
Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island |
1768 |
British customs officials seize John Hancock's ship, "The Liberty", on the suspicion that Hancock had illegally unloaded cargo without paying duties a month earlier |
1772 |
Burning of British revenue cutter Gaspée by Rhode Islanders |
1786 |
A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China. |
1793 |
1st public zoo opens in Paris |
1793 |
Washington supersedes Philadelphia as US capital |
1794 |
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia forms |
1794 |
France revolutionary regime begins trials |
1801 |
Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute |
1805 |
First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States. |
1809 |
1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila |
1818 |
Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra" |
1829 |
The first Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race takes place. |
1834 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean |
1838 |
Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered. |
1846 |
Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tyre |
1847 |
Chicago Tribune begins publishing |
1848 |
1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago |
1848 |
Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte |
1854 |
Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved |
1854 |
The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate. |
1857 |
Britain passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system |
1861 |
Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats |
1863 |
Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Nathan Bedford Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds |
1864 |
Battle of Kellar's Bridge KY (Licking River) |
1865 |
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany |
1868 |
2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02 |
1869 |
'Agnes'arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef |
1871 |
5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56 |
1871 |
Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea. |
1876 |
10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40.5 |
1880 |
Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning |
1882 |
Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans |
1890 |
24th Belmont: Pike Barnes riding Burlington wins in 2:07.75 |
1891 |
25th Belmont: Ed Garrison riding Foxford wins in 2:08.75 |
1892 |
Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game |
1893 |
27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25 |
1898 |
US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War |
1899 |
Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati |
1900 |
In China, a relief column of some 2000 men set out from Tientsin to relieve foreigners trapped in Peking. |
1902 |
Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan |
1903 |
In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, a military coup d'etat- led by the Queen's brother-in-law and other offices - kills King Alexander I of Serbia, Queen Draga, and many officers |
1905 |
1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me |
1907 |
France and Japan sign an agreement to maintain the independence and integrity of China, equality for all nations in trading with China, and the status quo in the Far East |
1908 |
1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens |
1908 |
The Australian Parliament passes the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act providing for pensions for British subjects (excluding aborigines) at age 65 |
1911 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam |
1915 |
British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon |
1916 |
48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22 |
1916 |
Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks |
1917 |
60,000 people of Petrograd Russia welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years) returning after February Russian Revolution |
1917 |
Limburgse mine workers strike |
1921 |
Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath) |
1922 |
54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8 |
1924 |
1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland |
1925 |
Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena. |
1926 |
Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle |
1930 |
Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms |
1931 |
Norway occupies East Greenland |
1932 |
1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass |
1932 |
67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England |
1933 |
37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill |
1933 |
65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6 |
1933 |
John Dillinger robs his first bank, in New Carlisle, Ohio. He takes $10, 600 |
1933 |
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Park flip their car into a ravine, and Parker suffers serious third degree burns from the accident which would affect her for the rest of her life |
1934 |
Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome |
1934 |
USSR & Romania re-establish diplomatic relations |
1935 |
Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous |
1938 |
Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch v Australia at Trent Bridge |
1939 |
MGM cartoon character Barney Bear debuts |
1940 |
French government moves to Bordeaux |
1940 |
German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker |
1940 |
German 5th Armoured division occupies Rouen |
1940 |
Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II |
1940 |
Norway surrenders to Nazis |
1940 |
Canada declares war on Italy. |
1943 |
FDR becomes 1st US president to visit a foreign country during wartime |
1943 |
FDR signs withholding tax bill into law |
1944 |
Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league |
1944 |
Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France |
1944 |
World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. |
1945 |
US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze |
1946 |
Italian Republic established |
1946 |
Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA. Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA |
1947 |
Saab produces its first automobile. |
1949 |
Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier |
1950 |
50th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA |
1950 |
82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6 |
1950 |
Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens |
1952 |
Chicago White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th) |
1952 |
Pres Harry Truman desires nationalizing steel industry |
1952 |
St Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby |
1954 |
KQED TV channel 9 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting |
1955 |
1st separation of virus into component parts reported |
1955 |
KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm |
1956 |
Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
1957 |
3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs |
1957 |
Harold MacMillan becomes British PM |
1957 |
John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada |
1959 |
Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game |
1962 |
A record 54 home runs hit in baseball |
1962 |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½" |
1962 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament |
1963 |
US President JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women |
1964 |
Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago |
1964 |
Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked |
1965 |
Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins. |
1966 |
Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK |
1966 |
Beatles record "Rain" 1st to use reverse tapes |
1966 |
Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0 |
1966 |
Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF) |
1966 |
Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday" |
1967 |
15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif |
1967 |
Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help |
1967 |
USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel |
1967 |
Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1968 |
"Danny Thomas Hour" last airs on NBC-TV |
1968 |
AL games at Balt & Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy |
1968 |
KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
1968 |
WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast |
1971 |
11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill |
1971 |
44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon |
1972 |
104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28 |
1972 |
Elvis Presley records a live album at NY's Madison Square Garden |
1972 |
Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges & moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649) |
1973 |
19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
1973 |
NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit |
1974 |
Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof |
1974 |
Rumor's government in Italy resigns |
1974 |
Brandon Ramirez, noted visionary and graphics designer born in TJ, Mexico. Known as the father of Rambo the next generation. |
1975 |
Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans |
1975 |
Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, & another part is set afire |
1976 |
49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy |
1976 |
67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome |
1977 |
Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers |
1977 |
James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison |
1977 |
International Labour Organisation and United Nations meet to discuss apartheid in South Africa and potential actions to prevent further violence and state repression. |
1978 |
110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8 |
1978 |
Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis |
1978 |
Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
1979 |
25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
1979 |
49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64) |
1979 |
Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve) |
1980 |
8 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners escape from Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast using handguns smuggled into prison |
1981 |
IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail |
1981 |
Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits |
1981 |
Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence |
1981 |
Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co |
1982 |
"Taxi" last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall |
1982 |
Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured |
1982 |
Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut |
1982 |
John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA |
1982 |
Iran recaptures Khorramshahr |
1984 |
38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
1984 |
54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (3-6 2-6 6-4 7-5 7-5) |
1984 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic |
1984 |
US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for first time |
1984 |
Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m) |
1985 |
19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell |
1985 |
Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife |
1985 |
Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula |
1986 |
A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL |
1986 |
In South Africa, the three-year-old 'State of Emergency' is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it. |
1987 |
Discovery's SRBs & External Tank are mated |
1988 |
Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London) |
1989 |
"Tales From The Crypt" TV Anthology debuts on HBO |
1989 |
121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26 |
1989 |
59th French Womens Tennis Open: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (7-6 3-6 7-5) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title |
1990 |
"Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 52 perfs |
1990 |
"Meet Me in St Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 perfs |
1990 |
60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64) |
1990 |
8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus |
1990 |
Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing |
1990 |
Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland |
1990 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
1990 |
Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity |
1991 |
"Twin Peaks" on ABC-TV |
1991 |
25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton |
1991 |
Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops |
1991 |
South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises |
1992 |
"Price" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 47 performances |
1992 |
Intelsat K launched |
1993 |
"She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances |
1994 |
Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel |
1994 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1994 |
Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic |
1995 |
"Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 perfs |
1995 |
127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32 |
1995 |
65th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats A.S. Vicario (7-6 4-6 6-0) |
1995 |
Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer |
1996 |
30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM |
1996 |
Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip |
1996 |
Stanley Cup: Colo Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games |
1996 |
Colo Avalanche sweeps Fla Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods |
1997 |
Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful |
1997 |
Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0 |
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. |
2000 |
132nd Belmont: Pat Day aboard Commendable wins in 2:31.20 |
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. |
2003 |
"Wicked", starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, officially opens at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco |
2006 |
138th Belmont: Fernando Jara aboard Jazil wins in 2:27.81 |
2007 |
61st Tony Awards: Spring Awakening & The Coast of Utopia win |
2007 |
53rd LPGA Championship won by Suzann Pettersen |
2007 |
"The Sopranos" series finale on HBO (infamous "cut to black" ending) |
2008 |
The Gora Prai airstrike by the United States reportedly kills 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops. |
2012 |
66th Tony Awards: Once & Clybourne Park win |
2012 |
A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister |
2012 |
58th LPGA Championship won by Shanshan Feng |
2013 |
70 people are killed as a series of bombs explode across Iraq |
2016 |
US urges Israel not to punish innocent Palestinians for attack |
2016 |
President Obama formally endorses Clinton for president |
2016 |
Phillies select Mickey Moniak with No. 1 pick of MLB draft |
2016 |
MLB suspends Yordano Ventura 9 games, Manny Machado 4 games for bench-clearing fight |
2018 |
Justify claims Triple Crown with Belmont Stakes win |
2018 |
Mike Smith, 52, becomes oldest jockey to win Triple Crown |
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