About June 10
June 10, 2021 is the 161st day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 236 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.
- 1692 –Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1924 –Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- 1940 –World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
- 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.
- 1945 –Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
- 1947 –Saab produces its first automobile.
- 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.
- 1977 –James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
- 1996 –Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
- 2003 –The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.
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