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.
- 1719 –Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
- 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.
- 1805 –First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
- 1967 –Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1967 –The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
- 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.
- 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.
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