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
- 1539 –Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
- 1624 –Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
- 1924 –Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- 1944 –World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
- 1947 –Saab produces its first automobile.
- 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 –James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
- 1980 –The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
- 1996 –Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
- 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.
- 2003 –The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.
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