| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 1358 | Jun 10 | French Boer leader Guillaume Cale was captured. |
| 1540 | Jun 10 | Thomas Cromwell was arrested in Westminster. |
| 1605 | Jun 10 | False Dimitri was crowned Russian tsar for 1st time. |
| 1610 | Jun 10 | The 1st Dutch settlers arrived from NJ to colonize Manhattan Island. |
| 1639 | Jun 10 | The 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington, Delaware). |
| 1688 | Jun 10 | Mary of Modena, the wife of Britain’s King James II, gave birth to a male heir. This placed England, much to the dismay of Parliament, in line for a succession of Catholic monarchs. |
| 1692 | Jun 10 | Bridget Bishop was hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft. This was the first official execution of the Salem witch trials. |
| 1718 | Jun 10 | Blackbeard’s ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, ran aground about this time and soon sank off the coast of Beaufort, NC. In 1997 underwater archeologist raised a canon believed to be from this ship. |
| 1720 | Jun 10 | Mrs. Clements of England marketed the 1st paste-style mustard. |
| 1735 | Jun 10 | John Morgan, physician-in-chief of Continental Army, was born. |
| 1752 | Jun 10 | Benjamin Franklin’s kite was struck by lightning as he flew it during a thunderstorm. |
| 1761 | Jun 10 | Puritan version of “Othello” opened in Newport, Rhode Island. |
| 1776 | Jun 10 | The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence. |
| 1801 | Jun 10 | The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean. Tripoli declared war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute. |
| 1806 | Jun 10 | James Fox, British foreign minister, introduced a bill to ban British ships from transporting slaves to foreign countries. Parliament passed the bill. |
| 1818 | Jun 10 | Pesaro opera theater opened with Rossini’s “La Gaza Ladra.” |
| 1836 | Jun 10 | Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman, was born. |
| 1847 | Jun 10 | Chicago Tribune began publishing. |
| 1848 | Jun 10 | The 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago was established. |
| 1854 | Jun 10 | The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, held its first graduation. |
| 1861 | Jun 10 | Thaddeus Lowe demonstrated his balloon, the Enterprise, along with its telegraphy capabilities for Pres. Lincoln at the White House lawn. |
| 1863 | Jun 10 | At the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest with 3,500 troops defeated the Union troops of 8,000. |
| 1865 | Jun 10 | The opera “Tristan und Isolde” by Richard Wagner premiered in Munich, Germany. |
| 1884 | Jun 10 | Johann Gustav Droysen (b.1808), German historian, died in Berlin. His books included “Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen” (1833), a study of Alexander the Great. |
| 1886 | Jun 10 | Mount Tarawera erupted at Rotorua on the North Island. 155 people were killed and several Maori and European settlements, including Te Wairoa, were destroyed. |
| 1890 | Jun 10 | Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity), was born. |
| 1895 | Jun 10 | Hattie McDaniel was born in Wichita, Kansas. She was the first African-American actress to win an Oscar which she won for her role as a maid in Gone With the Wind. |
| 1898 | Jun 10 | During the Spanish-American War, U.S. Marines landed in Cuba and camped at Guantanamo Bay where 2 Marines became the 1st war casualties. |
| 1901 | Jun 10 | Frederick Loewe, songwriter, was born. |
| 1905 | Jun 10 | 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation was at Greenville, Me. |
| 1907 | Jun 10 | In China 11 men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris. Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in the French capital two months later. The 62-day race was won by an Italian built Itala. |
| 1908 | Jun 10 | Ernst B. Chain, German chemist, bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945), was born. |
| 1909 | Jun 10 | An SOS signal was transmitted for the first time in an emergency as the Cunard liner SS Slavonia was wrecked off the Azores. |
| 1911 | Jun 10 | Queen Wilhelmina opened the Rembrandt house in Amsterdam. |
| 1915 | Jun 10 | Girl Scouts were founded. |
| 1916 | Jun 10 | Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt. Sharif Hussein, Arab Emir of Mecca, led the revolt. |
| 1917 | Jun 10 | 60,000 people of Petrograd welcomed Prince Kropotkin, who was banned 41 years earlier. |
| 1920 | Jun 10 | The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage. |
| 1921 | Jun 10 | Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince, Consort of Elizabeth II, was born in Greece. |
| 1922 | Jun 10 | Judy Garland, singer-actress was born as Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn. She starred in The Wizard of Oz and Easter Parade. |
| 1924 | Jun 10 | The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome. |
| 1925 | Jun 10 | Nat Hentoff, journalist, was born. |
| 1928 | Jun 10 | Maurice Sendak, children’s author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are), was born. |
| 1933 | Jun 10 | F. Lee Bailey, American defense attorney, was born. He later defended the Boston Strangler, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson |
| 1935 | Jun 10 | Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G. Wilson (Bill Wilson), a stockbroker, and Dr. Robert Smith (Bob Smith), a heart surgeon. |
| 1937 | Jun 10 | Luciana Paluzzi (Fiona Volpe), actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball), was born in Rome, Italy. |
| 1940 | Jun 10 | Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy. |
| 1943 | Jun 10 | FDR signed a withholding tax bill into law. |
| 1944 | Jun 10 | In Greece Waffen-SS troops of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Lautenbach went door to door and massacred Greek civilians as part of a ‘retaliation measure’ for a partisan attack upon the unit. A total of 214 men, women and children were killed in Distomo, a small village near Delphi. |
| 1946 | Jun 10 | Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic. |
| 1947 | Jun 10 | California Gov. Earl Warren signed a measure that gave each county the authority to regulate its own air pollution. This was America’s first statewide air protection law. |
| 1948 | Jun 10 | The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. |
| 1952 | Jun 10 | Pres. Truman tried to nationalize the steel industry. |
| 1953 | Jun 10 | John R. Edwards, US Senator, was born Seneca, South Carolina. In 2004 he ran as a Democrat presidential candidate and then agreed to run for the vice-presidency under Sen. John Kerry. |
| 1957 | Jun 10 | Harold MacMillan became British PM. |
| 1959 | Jun 10 | Eliot Spitzer, later NY state governor (2007), was born in the Bronx. In 2008 he faced the end of his political career amidst a sex scandal. |
| 1963 | Jun 10 | JFK signed an equal pay for equal work law for men & women. |
| 1964 | Jun 10 | The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states. |
| 1966 | Jun 10 | Mamas & Papas won a gold record for “Monday, Monday.” |
| 1967 | Jun 10 | Spencer Tracy (b.1900), American film star, died. His work included 75 feature films and two Oscars. In 2011 James Curtis authored “Spencer Tracy: A Biography.” |
| 1970 | Jun 10 | A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam. The daring rescue raid at the Son Tay prison camp deep within North Vietnam lacked only one essential ingredient–POWs. |
| 1971 | Jun 10 | Federal marshals, FBI agents and special forces swarmed Alcatraz Island and removed the Native American occupiers: 5 women, 4 children and 6 unarmed men. |
| 1975 | Jun 10 | The Rockefeller panel reported on illegal CIA files on Americans. |
| 1978 | Jun 10 | Affirmed (1975-2001) , ridden by Steve Cauthen, became a Triple Crown winner after winning the NY Belmont Stakes by a nose over Alyadar. |
| 1980 | Jun 10 | A package bomb injured United Airlines Pres. Percy Wood at his home in Lake Forest, Ill. It was later attributed to the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski. |
| 1981 | Jun 10 | In Frascati, Italy, 6-year-old Alfredo Rampi fell down an artesian well; the story ended tragically as efforts to rescue him proved futile. |
| 1982 | Jun 10 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (b.1945), German film director, died. |
| 1985 | Jun 10 | The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation |
| 1987 | Jun 10 | The leaders of seven major industrial nations ended a three-day summit in Venice, proposing no new major economic initiatives, but calling for closer coordination of their economies and a stabilizing of foreign currency rates. |
| 1988 | Jun 10 | The US House ethics committee announced it had voted unanimously to conduct a preliminary inquiry into allegations concerning the conduct of Speaker Jim Wright. |
| 1989 | Jun 10 | Easy Goer won the Belmont Stakes in New York, denying the Triple Crown to Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Sunday Silence. |
| 1990 | Jun 10 | Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru by a narrow margin over novelist Mario Vargos Llosa. |
| 1991 | Jun 10 | Vercors (b.1902) [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), died. |
| 1992 | Jun 10 | President Bush dropped Secretary of State James A. Baker III from his trip to the Earth Summit in Brazil, instructing him to step up negotiations for a new agreement with Russia to reduce long-range nuclear missile stockpiles. |
| 1993 | Jun 10 | Scientists announced they had extracted genetic material from the preserved remains of an insect that had lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. |
| 1994 | Jun 10 | President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti’s military leaders, suspending U.S. commercial air travel and most financial transactions between the two countries. |
| 1995 | Jun 10 | US Air Force Captain Scott O’Grady, rescued after being shot down over Bosnia, described his six-day ordeal at a news conference at Aviano Air Base in Italy, saying he was no Rambo and no hero. |
| 1996 | Jun 10 | The film “The Rock,” starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage, opened and took in $25.1 million nationally. |
| 1997 | Jun 10 | In California former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt was released on bail after 27 years behind bars on what he says were trumped-up murder charges. Authorities decided against retrying him. |
| 1998 | Jun 10 | The Wisconsin Supreme court ruled that taxpayer could be used to send poor children to private religious schools. |
| 1999 | Jun 10 | The US Supreme Court struck down (6-3) a Chicago anti-loitering ordnance aimed against street gangs |
| 2000 | Jun 10 | In Dallas the New Jersey Devils won their second Stanley Cup in six seasons with a 2-to-1 victory in double overtime over the Dallas Stars in Game Six of the finals. |
| 2001 | Jun 10 | The Supreme Court, without comment, turned down a request to allow the videotaping of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh’s execution, scheduled for the following day. |
| 2002 | Jun 10 | The US Supreme Court ruled that employers can reject applicants for jobs that would endanger their health. |
| 2003 | Jun 10 | The archdiocese of Louisville, Ky., settled a sexual abuse case with some 250 alleged victims for $25.7 million. |
| 2004 | Jun 10 | A G-8 summit at Sea Island Resort near Savannah, Georgia, ended without an agreement on Iraq. The group agreed to extend through 2006 the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative. |
| 2005 | Jun 10 | President Bush and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun pressed North Korea to rejoin deadlocked talks on its nuclear weapons program and tried to minimize their own differences over how hard to push the reclusive communist regime. |
| 2007 | Jun 10 | “Spring Awakening” was named best musical at the Tony Awards; “The Coast of Utopia,” best play. |
| 2008 | Jun 10 | President Bush, speaking in Slovenia at his final EU-US summit, said the United States and Europe must rally to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, calling the threat an incredible danger to world peace. |
| 2009 | Jun 10 | California’s state controller said the government risks a financial “meltdown” within 50 days in light of its weakening May revenues unless Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers quickly plug a $24.3 billion budget gap. |
| 2010 | Jun 10 | Two Bosnian Serbs, Vujadin Popovic and Ljubisa Beara, were convicted of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, the harshest judgment ever delivered by the UN war crimes tribunal on the Balkan wars. It was a dramatic conclusion to the largest trial conducted by the tribunal. |
| 2011 | Jun 10 | US Border Patrol agents near the Rio Grande River engaged in a shoot-out with suspected drug smugglers. Unconfirmed reports said that three suspects were either wounded or killed. US agents have been trying to prevent rafts which contained drugs from getting to the American side of the border. |
| 2012 | Jun 10 | Iran’s media reported that the nation’s cyber police are poised to launch a new crackdown on software that lets many Iranians circumvent the regime’s Internet censorship. |
| 2013 | Jun 10 | BP PLC said the Coast Guard has concluded cleanup operations in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida from the April 2010 oil well blowout. Work continued along 84 miles of Louisiana’s shoreline. |
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