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