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- 1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River 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 had traveling to Venice.
- 1610 The first Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
- 1619 Thirty Years' War: Battle of Zblat, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- 1639 The first American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
- 1682 Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
- 1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
- 1719 Battle of Glenshiel which saw the end of a minor Jacobite rising. Only 1000 men joined the Jacobite side under the 10th Earl Marischal. Faced by a Hanovarian army under General Wightman, after some hours of engagement, the Jacobite forces disbanded
- 1720 Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard
- 1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning
- 1756 UK hist Black Hole of Calcutta – 146 Britons imprisoned, most die according to British sources
- 1760 NY passes first effective law regulating practice of medicine
- 1770 Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1793 French Revolution: Following arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
- 1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris (becoming, a year later, the first public zoo).
- 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 The first US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
- 1829 UK hist First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race
- 1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
- 1848 The first telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
- 1854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
- 1854 The U.S. Naval Academy holds its first graduation in Annapolis, Maryland.
- 1854 The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
- 1863 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
- 1864 Siege of Petersburgbegins and lasts until April 2, 1865
- 1869 S.S.Agnes arrives in New Orleans with first ever shipment of frozen beef
- 1871 Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
- 1886 Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
- 1898 US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
- 1899 Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
- 1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan
- 1905 The first forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
- 1909 A Morse Code SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency as the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores.
- 1916 Great Arab Revolt begin
- 1918 Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan 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
- 1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
- 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in New York City.
- 1940 World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
- 1940 World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
- 1940 World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces.
- 1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with "Stab in the Back" speech from the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
- 1941 Recruitment commenced for the Torres Strait Defence Force to be drawn from the indigenous population of the Torres Strait Islands The Force included the Torres Strait Regiment
- 1941 Rudolf He crashes a Luftwaffe fighter-bomber in England in an attempt to put an end to World War 2.
- 1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
- 1942 World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
- 1943 FDR becomes first US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
- 1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
- 1943 Lieutenant Commander F. A. Erickson, USCG, proposed that helicopters be developed for antisubmarine warfare, "not as a killer craft but as the eyes and ears of the convoy escorts." To this end he recommended that helicopters be equipped with radar and dunking sonar.
- 1943 Visitor posting - Eleanor Ruth Quill Christman June 10, 1943
- 1944 In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
- 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 children,women and men were massacred by German troops.
- 1945 9th Division supported by the RAAF lands at Brunei Bay, beginning the invasion of British North Borneo
- 1945 Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
- 1946 Italian Republic established
- 1947 Saab produces its first automobile.
- 1948 Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell XS-1.
- 1954 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
- 1955 The first separation of virus into component parts reported
- 1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
- 1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
- 1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada with the biggest majority to date
- 1961 Suzanne Clayton's birthday June 10th 1961
- 1964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
- 1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in the UK
- 1966 Janis Joplins first live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
- 1967 Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
- 1967 Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
- 1968 Visitor posting - ABELARDO M ARMENTA WAS BORN ON THIS DAY - USA [email protected]
- 1969 Visitor posting - Jim Newton, founding member of ROADSIDE ART is born in Owensboro, KY - USA
- 1970 Visitor posting - Veronica Kathleen Csibi was born - Australia
- 1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill
- 1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
- 1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
- 1976 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome
- 1977 Apple Computer ships its first Apple II
- 1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
- 1978 Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1980 Visitor posting - Dave Lightfoot born - USA
- 1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
- 1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
- 1984 Ivan Lendl wins the French Open, his first grand slam title
- 1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for first time
- 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 so much for the "New Coke"
- 1985 The Israeli army ends its 1,099 day occupation of Lebanon.
- 1987 Discovery's SRBs and External Tank are mated
- 1987 Visitor posting - Ashley D. was born! - USA
- 1987 Visitor posting - Muhammad Sulaman Saleem, MBA from IIUI was born on this day. - Pakistan [email protected]
- 1986 Visitor posting - Ahmed Abdullah Esmail EL Sayed, Rph, Pharm.D., was born. - USA
- 1988 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
- 1989 Major French Open upset, as Spain's Arantxa Sanchez, 17 beats heavily favored Steffi Graf, also first Spaniard to win a grand slam title
- 1989 Number one hit on UK music charts - Jason Donovan - Sealed With A Kiss
- 1990 Andres Gomez beats Andre Agassi for French Open title
- 1990 Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing
- 1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity
- 1991 Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
- 1992 Fatal ambush of U.S. Army Humvee in Panama on eve of President George H. W. Bush's visit to that country
- 1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Fin.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Elizabeth Frances Humprey was born
- 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 Miloevi agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- 2000 UK hist Millennium footbridge over the Thames opens, but wobbles and is quickly declared dangerous and closed – finally reopened Feb 2002
- 2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Saint Rafqa
- 2002 First direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
- 2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Bryan jr the greatest baby ever entered the world! - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - The world completely changed because I met David Carter Hines - USA
- 2010 Officials report that on June 8, 2010 Taliban executes boy, 7, for spying - Afghanistan
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