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On this day June 10

2016


Former The Voice contestant Christina Grimmie is fatally shot in Orlando, Florida following a concert; she died from her injuries at the age of 22.

2003


The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

2002


The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

2001


Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

1999


Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

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.

1996


Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.

1994


China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.

1991


Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.

1990


British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities

1980


The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

1977


James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.

1967


The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.

1964


United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.

1963


The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.

1957


John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.

1947


Saab produces its first automobile.

1945


Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.

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: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.

1944


World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.

1942


World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.

1940


World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.

1940


World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

1940


World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.

1935


Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.

1935


Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

1924


Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

1918


The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.

1916


The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.

1898


Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.

1886


Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.

1878


League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.

1871


Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.

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.

1861


American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.

1854


The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.

1838


Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.

1829


The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.

1805


First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.

1793


French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.

1793


The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.

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.

1782


King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.

1719


Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.

1692


Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".

1624


Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.

1619


Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.

1596


Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.

1539


Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.

1523


Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.

1329


The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.

1190


Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.

671


Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.

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