About June 10

June 10, 2022 is the 161st day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 226 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On June 10

  • 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 –
    French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1935 –
    Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
  • 1940 –
    World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
  • 1945 –
    Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
  • 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.
  • 1991 –
    The kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
  • 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.
  • 2001 –
    Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon’s first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

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