Today in History
What happened on the 10th of June in history?
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- 1580
Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes - Portugal's national poet - dies
- 1639
1st American log cabin at Ft Christina (Wilmington Del)
- 1752
Ben Franklin flies kit in storm
- 1772
Burning of the Gaspee British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
- 1801
State of Tripoli declares war on the US
- 1854
Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
- 1865
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
- 1869
Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
- 1880
Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
- 1892
Wilbert Robinson gets 7 base hits in 1 baseball game
- 1898
US Marines land at Cuba in Spanish-American War
- 1910
Portuguese Natl Day
- 1921
Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
- 1932
1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
- 1935
Alcoholics Anonymous formed in Akron by Dr Robert Smith
- 1940
Italy declares war on France & Britain
- 1942
Nazis exterminate village of Lidice - Czechoslovakia
- 1942
Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
- 1943
FDR 1st US pres to visit foreign country during wartime
- 1944
Joe Nuxhall at 15 became youngest ML baseball player
- 1946
Establishment of Italian Republic
- 1954
PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
- 1955
1st virus separated into component parts - reported
- 1959
Rocky Colovito hits 4 HRs in 1 game
- 1964
Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
- 1967
Israel Syria Jordan Iraq Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
- 1977
Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II. Also James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
- 1978
Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
- 1984
Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 2.39 m