10 June History
- 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.
10 June Birthdays
- 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.