About June 10
June 10, 2020 is the 162nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 247 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.
- 1624 –Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
- 1692 –Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”.
- 1719 –Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
- 1838 –Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –The Austro-Hungarian battleship Ship SMS sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
- 1935 –Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
- 1940 –World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
- 1945 –Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
- 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 –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.
- 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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