About June 10
June 10, 2024 is the 162nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 233 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 10
- 1692 –Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”.
- 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.
- 1829 –The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1925 –Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the 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.
- 1936 –The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
- 1944 –World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
- 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 –The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
- 1977 –Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
- 1977 –James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
- 1991 –The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
- 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 Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- 2001 –Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon’s first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
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