Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
66151June 10Event1940 – 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.
66152June 10Event1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
66153June 10Event1940 – World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
66154June 10Event1942 – World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
66155June 10Event1944 – World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
66156June 10Event1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
66157June 10Event1944 – In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
66158June 10Event1945 – Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
66159June 10Event1947 – Saab produces its first automobile.
66160June 10Event1957 – 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.
66161June 10Event1963 – 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
66162June 10Event1964 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
66163June 10Event1967 – The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
66164June 10Event1967 – The Gateway Arch opens to the public.
66165June 10Event1967 – Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
66166June 10Event1977 – James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
66167June 10Event1977 – The Apple II, one of the first personal computers, goes on sale.
66168June 10Event1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
66169June 10Event1990 – 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
66170June 10Event1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California she would remain a captive until 2009.
66171June 10Event1996 – Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
66172June 10Event1997 – 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.
66173June 10Event1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
66174June 10Event2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
66175June 10Event2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
66176June 10Event2003 – The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
66177June 10Event2003 – Wicked opens on Broadway, proceeding to win 40 awards just for the Broadway production.
66178June 10Birth1213 – Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, Persian poet and philosopher (d. 1289)
66179June 10Birth1632 – Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (d. 1710)
66180June 10Birth1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart, English son of James II of England (d. 1766)

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