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Events on the 10th of June in history

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10 Jun 0671 Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measure time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
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10 Jun 1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
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10 Jun 1329 The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
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10 Jun 1358 French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured
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10 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1538 Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg
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10 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1540 Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister
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10 Jun 1596 Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.
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10 Jun 1605 Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time
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10 Jun 1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from New Jersey), to colonize Manhattan Island
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10 Jun 1619 Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
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10 Jun 1624 Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.
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10 Jun 1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador
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10 Jun 1639 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
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10 Jun 1652 In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
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10 Jun 1682 Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
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10 Jun 1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
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10 Jun 1719 Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.
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10 Jun 1720 Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
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10 Jun 1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
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10 Jun 1760 New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
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10 Jun 1761 Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport, Rhode Island
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10 Jun 1772 Burning of the Gasp
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10 Jun 1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence
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10 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1793 1st public zoo opens in Paris
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10 Jun 1793 Washington replaced Philadelphia as US capital
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10 Jun 1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
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10 Jun 1793 French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
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10 Jun 1794 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, forms
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10 Jun 1794 France revolutionary regime begins trials
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10 Jun 1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
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10 Jun 1805 First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
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10 Jun 1809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Philadelphia
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10 Jun 1826 Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
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10 Jun 1829 The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
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10 Jun 1834 HMS Beagle / Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
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10 Jun 1838 Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
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10 Jun 1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
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10 Jun 1847 Chicago Tribune begins publishing
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10 Jun 1848 Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
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10 Jun 1848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
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10 Jun 1850 Millard Fillmore sworn-in as President of US (replacing Taylor)
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10 Jun 1854 The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
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10 Jun 1854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
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10 Jun 1857 England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
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10 Jun 1861 Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal) - Union retreats
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10 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1863 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
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10 Jun 1864 Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia
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10 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance M
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10 Jun 1868 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02
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10 Jun 1868 2nd Belmont Stakes, General Duke wins
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10 Jun 1869 Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
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10 Jun 1871 5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56
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10 Jun 1871 Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
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10 Jun 1878 League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, 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.
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10 Jun 1880 Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
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10 Jun 1882 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
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10 Jun 1886 Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for 3 months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.
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10 Jun 1890 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75
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10 Jun 1891 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75
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10 Jun 1892 Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
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10 Jun 1892 Wilbert Robinson of Balt Orioles sets record of 7 for 7 in 9 inn game
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10 Jun 1898 Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
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10 Jun 1898 US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
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10 Jun 1899 Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
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10 Jun 1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan
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10 Jun 1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Maine
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10 Jun 1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
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10 Jun 1911 Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
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10 Jun 1912 The Villisca Axe Murders were discovered in Villisca, Iowa.
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10 Jun 1915 British / French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
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10 Jun 1915 Girl Scouts founded
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10 Jun 1916 48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22
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10 Jun 1916 An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia breaks out.
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10 Jun 1916 Great Arab Revolt begin
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10 Jun 1917 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
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10 Jun 1917 Limburgse mine workers strike
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10 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
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10 Jun 1922 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8
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10 Jun 1924 Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
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10 Jun 1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
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10 Jun 1925 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in the Toronto Arena.
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10 Jun 1926 Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
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10 Jun 1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
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10 Jun 1931 Norway occupies East-Greenland
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10 Jun 1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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10 Jun 1933 37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore - Illinois
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10 Jun 1933 65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6
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10 Jun 1934 USSR and Romania regain diplomatic relations
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10 Jun 1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
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10 Jun 1935 Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
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10 Jun 1935 Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
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10 Jun 1935 Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
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10 Jun 1936 The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
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10 Jun 1938 Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch vs. Australia at Trent Bridge
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10 Jun 1939 Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
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10 Jun 1940 French government moves to Bordeaux
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10 Jun 1940 German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
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10 Jun 1940 German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
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10 Jun 1940 Norway surrenders to Nazis
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10 Jun 1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
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10 Jun 1940 World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
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10 Jun 1940 World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
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10 Jun 1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
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10 Jun 1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
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10 Jun 1942 World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
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10 Jun 1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
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10 Jun 1943 FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
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10 Jun 1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
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10 Jun 1944 Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league
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10 Jun 1944 Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
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10 Jun 1944 World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
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10 Jun 1944 World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
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10 Jun 1944 In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
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10 Jun 1944 Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player
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10 Jun 1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
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10 Jun 1945 Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
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10 Jun 1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st Director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd Director of CIA
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10 Jun 1946 Italian Republic established
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10 Jun 1947 Saab produces its first automobile.
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10 Jun 1949 Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian Premier
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10 Jun 1950 50th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club, Pennsylvania
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10 Jun 1950 82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6
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10 Jun 1952 Chicago White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
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10 Jun 1952 President Truman desires nationalizing steel industry
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10 Jun 1952 St. Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby
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10 Jun 1954 KQED TV channel 9 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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10 Jun 1954 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
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10 Jun 1955 KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
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10 Jun 1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
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10 Jun 1956 Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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10 Jun 1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
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10 Jun 1957 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs
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10 Jun 1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British Prime Minister
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10 Jun 1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
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10 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1959 Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
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10 Jun 1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament
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10 Jun 1962 A record 54 home runs hit in baseball
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10 Jun 1962 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3
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10 Jun 1963 JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men andwomen
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10 Jun 1963 Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program
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10 Jun 1964 Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
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10 Jun 1964 United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
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10 Jun 1964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
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10 Jun 1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2370 van Altena
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10 Jun 1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in the UK
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10 Jun 1966 Beatles record "Rain, " 1st to use reverse tapes
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10 Jun 1966 Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washingston Senator, 2-0
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10 Jun 1966 Mamas and Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
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10 Jun 1966 Janis Joplins 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
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10 Jun 1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California
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10 Jun 1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
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10 Jun 1967 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel
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10 Jun 1967 The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
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10 Jun 1967 Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
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10 Jun 1968 "Danny Thomas Hour, " last airs on NBC-TV
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10 Jun 1968 AL games at Baltimore and Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy
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10 Jun 1968 KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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10 Jun 1968 WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC / CBS) 1st broadcast
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10 Jun 1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem, Illinois
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10 Jun 1971 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon
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10 Jun 1972 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28
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10 Jun 1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges &
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10 Jun 1973 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
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10 Jun 1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
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10 Jun 1974 Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof
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10 Jun 1975 Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, and another part is set afire
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10 Jun 1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
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10 Jun 1976 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy
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10 Jun 1976 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome
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10 Jun 1977 James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
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10 Jun 1977 The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
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10 Jun 1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
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10 Jun 1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
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10 Jun 1978 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8
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10 Jun 1978 Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
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10 Jun 1979 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
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10 Jun 1979 Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs. Cleveland)
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10 Jun 1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland
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10 Jun 1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
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10 Jun 1981 Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Company
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10 Jun 1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
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10 Jun 1981 Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits
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10 Jun 1981 Sebastian Coe of Englands sets the 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence
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10 Jun 1982 "Taxi, " last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall
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10 Jun 1982 Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured
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10 Jun 1982 John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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10 Jun 1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
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10 Jun 1984 38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
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10 Jun 1984 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75)
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10 Jun 1984 Boston beats Los Angeles, for the NBA championship
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10 Jun 1984 Ivan Lendl wins the French Open, his 1st grand slam title
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10 Jun 1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
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10 Jun 1984 Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)
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10 Jun 1985 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
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10 Jun 1985 French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near New Zealand
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10 Jun 1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
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10 Jun 1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
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10 Jun 1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
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10 Jun 1987 Discovery's SRBs and External Tank are mated
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10 Jun 1988 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
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10 Jun 1989 "Tales From The Crypt, " TV Anthology, debuts on HBO
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10 Jun 1989 121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26
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10 Jun 1989 59th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title
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10 Jun 1989 Major French Open upset, as Spain's Arantxa Sanchez, 17 beats heavily
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10 Jun 1990 "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 52 performances
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10 Jun 1990 "Meet Me in St. Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 performances
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10 Jun 1990 60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64)
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10 Jun 1990 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus
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10 Jun 1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity
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10 Jun 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
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10 Jun 1990 Andres Gomez beats Andre Agassi for French Open title
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10 Jun 1990 Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing
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10 Jun 1990 Detroit Pistons beat Trail Blazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland
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10 Jun 1991 "Twin Peaks, " on ABC-TV
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10 Jun 1991 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton
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10 Jun 1991 South Florida and Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
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10 Jun 1991 Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.
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10 Jun 1991 Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
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10 Jun 1992 Intelsat K launched
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10 Jun 1993 "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
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10 Jun 1994 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg / (237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
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10 Jun 1994 Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic
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10 Jun 1995 "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 performances
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10 Jun 1995 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32
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10 Jun 1995 65th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60)
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10 Jun 1995 Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer
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10 Jun 1996 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson
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10 Jun 1996 Colo Avalanche sweeps Florida Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods
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10 Jun 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM
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10 Jun 1996 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
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10 Jun 1996 Stanley Cup: Colo Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games
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10 Jun 1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
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10 Jun 1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
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10 Jun 1997 Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0
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10 Jun 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.
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10 Jun 1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
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10 Jun 2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
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10 Jun 2002 The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
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10 Jun 2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
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10 Jun 2003 Wicked opens on Broadway, proceeding to win 40 awards just for the Broadway production.
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