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.
- 1624 –Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
- 1719 –Jacobite Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1925 –Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
- 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.
- 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: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
- 1967 –Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 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
- 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.
- 1999 –Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- 2001 –Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon’s first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
- 2002 –The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
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