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
- 1190 –Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- 1619 –Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- 1692 –Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”.
- 1793 –French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
- 1838 –Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- 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.
- 1871 –Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
- 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.
- 1991 –The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
- 1996 –Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
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