About June 10
June 10, 2025 is the 161st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 252 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 10
- 1624 –Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
- 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: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
- 1878 –League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
- 1918 –The Austro-Hungarian battleship Ship SMS sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
- 1924 –Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- 1940 –World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1967 –Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1977 –Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer.
- 1980 –The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
- 1991 –The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
- 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.
- 2002 –The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
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