WillDekkard
06-10-2010, 05:24 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 10th
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* 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 Zαblatν, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
* 1624 Treaty of Compiθgne, signed 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.
* 1770 Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
* 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: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with 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.
* 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.
* 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 Istvαn 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 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.
* 1940 World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
* 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: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
* 1940 World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
* 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 Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
* 1967 Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
* 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.
* 1978 Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention.
* 1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
* 1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Fιin.
* 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 Miloević 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.
* 2008 War in Afghanistan: An airstrike by the United States results in the deaths of eleven paramilitary troops of the Pakistan Army Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
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- June 10th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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 Zαblatν, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
* 1624 Treaty of Compiθgne, signed 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.
* 1770 Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
* 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: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with 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.
* 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.
* 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 Istvαn 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 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.
* 1940 World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
* 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: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
* 1940 World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
* 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 Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
* 1967 Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
* 1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
* 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.
* 1978 Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention.
* 1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
* 1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Fιin.
* 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 Miloević 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.
* 2008 War in Afghanistan: An airstrike by the United States results in the deaths of eleven paramilitary troops of the Pakistan Army Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
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