| 1190 |
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Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade. |
| 1692 |
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Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft. |
| 1776 |
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The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence. |
| 1801 |
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Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute. |
| 1854 |
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The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation. |
| 1861 |
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Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army. |
| 1864 |
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At the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops. |
| 1898 |
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U.S. Marines land in Cuba. |
| 1905 |
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Japan and Russia agree to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt. |
| 1909 |
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An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia is wrecked off the Azores. |
| 1916 |
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Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt. |
| 1920 |
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The Republican convention in Chicago endorses woman suffrage. |
| 1924 |
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The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome. |
| 1925 |
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Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution. |
| 1940 |
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The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans. |
| 1942 |
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Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich. |
| 1943 |
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The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock. |
| 1944 |
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The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy’s beaches, link up and begin moving inland. |
| 1948 |
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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. |
| 1963 |
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Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government. |
| 1970 |
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A 15-man group of special forces troops begin training for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam. |
| 1985 |
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The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation. |
| 1999 |
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Serb forces begin their withdrawl from Kosovo after signing an agreement with the NATO powers. |
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Born on June 10 |
| 1735 |
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John Morgan, physician-in-chief of the American Continental Army. |
| 1895 |
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Hattie McDaniel, African-American actress. |
| 1901 |
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Frederick Loewe, songwriter. |
| 1915 |
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Saul Bellow, American novelist (Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift). |
| 1922 |
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Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm), American actress and singer (The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade). |
| 1925 |
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Nat Hentoff, journalist. |
| 1928 |
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Maurice Sendak, children’s author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are). |
| 1933 |
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F. Lee Bailey, American defense attorney. |
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