On this day in History - Jun 10

• 0323 BC - Alexander the Great dies (b. 356 BC)
• 1075 - Margrave Ernest the Brave of Austria dies
• 1190 - Frederick Barbarossa dies drowned (d. 1122). Holy Roman Emperor
• 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
• 1213 - Fakhruddin 'Iraqi was born. Persian philosopher and Sufi mystic
• 1424 - Duke Ernest the Iron of Inner Austria dies
• 1580 - Luis de Camões dies (b. 1524). Portuguese poet.
• 1618 - Nicolas-François Blondel was born. French architect.
• 1619 - Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt of the Thirty Years' War
• 1632 - Esprit Fléchier was born (d. 1710). French writer and bishop.
• 1637 - Jacques Marquette was born (d. 1675). French Jesuit missionary and explorer
• 1654 - Alessandro Algardi dies (b. 1598). Italian sculptor.
• 1657 - James Cragg the Elder was born (d. 1721). English politician.
• 1688 - James Francis Edward Stuart was born (d. 1766). "The Old Pretender".
• 1692 - Bridget Bishop dies. Accused witch.
• 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
• 1706 - John Dollond was born. English optician.
• 1710 - James Short was born (d. 1768). Scottish mathematician and optician.
• 1719 - Battle of Glen Shiel
• 1735 - Thomas Hearne dies. English antiquary and keeper of the Bodleian Library
• 1793 - The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris (becoming, a year later, the first public zoo).
• 1793 - French Revolution: Following arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
• 1801 - Tripoli declares war on the United States for refusing tribute.
• 1803 - Henry Darcy was born (d. 1858). French scientist.
• 1804 - Hermann Schlegel was born (d. 1884). German ornithologist.
• 1819 - Gustave Courbet was born (d. 1877). French painter.
• 1829 - First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge (won by Oxford).
• 1831 - Hans Karl Friedrich Anton, count von Diebitsch dies (b. 1785). Russian field marshal.
• 1835 - Rebecca Latimer Felton was born (d. 1930). First female U.S. Senator.
• 1836 - André-Marie Ampère dies (b. 1775). French physicist.
• 1840 - Henry Morton Stanley was born. American journalist and explorer
• 1844 - Carl Hagenbeck was born. Animal trainer
• 1846 - Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.
• 1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
• 1854 - G E Buckle was born. English newspaper editor.
• 1858 - Robert Brown dies. Naturalist.
• 1861 - Pierre Duhem was born (d. 1916). French physicist and philosopher of science.
• 1862 - Mrs Leslie Carter, nee Caroline Dudley, was born (d. 1937). Broadway actress & star.
• 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.
• 1871 - Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island Shinmiyangyo, Korea.
• 1880 - André Derain was born (d. 1954). French painter and illustrator.
• 1886 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
• 1890 - Stan Laurel was born. Actor.
• 1895 - Hattie McDaniel was born (d. 1952). Actress, and the first African American to win an Academy Award.
• 1897 - Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia was born (d. 1918)
• 1898 - US Marines land on the island of Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
• 1899 - Ernest Chausson dies (b. 1855). French composer.
• 1901 - Robert Williams Buchanan dies (b. 1841). British poet, novelist and dramatist.
• 1901 - Frederick Loewe was born (d. 1988). Austrian-born American composer.
• 1902 - Jacint Verdaguer dies (b. 1845). Catalan poet.
• 1903 - Theo Lingen was born (d. 1978). German actor.
• 1903 - Clyde Beatty was born (d. 1965). Hunter, circus impresario.
• 1907 - Fairfield Porter was born (d. 1975). American painter.
• 1908 - Robert Cummings was born (d. 2 Dec 1990). Emmy Award-winning actor: Twelve Angry Men [1954]; Love That Bob, The Bob Cummings Show, My Hero, Dial "M" for Murder, The Carpetbaggers;
• 1909 - Edward Everett Hale dies. Author.
• 1910 - Howlin' Wolf was born (d. 1976). Blues musician (born "Chester Burnett").
• 1911 - Terence Rattigan was born (d. 1977). British playwright.
• 1912 - Anton Aškerc dies (b. 1856). Slovenian poet.
• 1913 - Tikhon Khrennikov was born. Russian composer.
• 1915 - Saul Bellow was born (d. 2005). Canadian-born American author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1918 - Arrigo Boito dies (b. 1842). Italian poet and composer.
• 1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was born.
• 1922 - Judy Garland [Frances Ethel Gumm] was born (d. 22 Jun 1969). American actress, singer. Mother of Liza Minelli and Lorna & Joey Luft. ( Singer : Over the Rainbow, The Trolley Song, You Made Me Love You, The Man that Got Away; actress: The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star is Born, Easter Parade, The Harvey Girls, Judgment at Nuremberg);
• 1922 - Nascimento, no Rio de Jabneiro - RJ, de Bibi Ferreira (Abigail Isquierdo Ferreira), consagrada artista do teatro brasilieiro.
• 1923 - Pierre Loti dies (b. 1850). French sailor and writer.
• 1924 - Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• 1925 - Inagural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto arena
• 1926 - Antoni Gaudí dies (b. 1852). Catalan architect.
• 1926 - Lionel Jeffries was born. British actor.
• 1923 - Robert Maxwell was born (d. 1991). Czech-born British owner of Mirror Group Newspapers
• 1927 - Lin Yang-kang was born. Chinese politician
• 1928 - Maurice Sendak was born. Writer, producer, illustrator
• 1929 - Harald Juhnke was born (d. 2005). German actor and comedian.
• 1929 - Ian McCahon Sinclair was born. Australian politician
• 1930 - Theo Sommer was born. German journalist.
• 1930 - Adolf Harnack dies (b. 1851). German theologian.
• 1933 - F. Lee Bailey was born. Celebrity attorney
• 1934 - Frederick Delius dies (b. 1862). English composer.
• 1934 - João Gilberto was born. Brazilian composer and singer.
• 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
• 1937 - Robert Borden dies (b. 1854). Eighth Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1940 - Marcus Garvey dies (b. 1887). American civil rights activist.
• 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
• 1940 - World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
• 1940 - World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
• 1940 - World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces.
• 1940 - John Stevens was born (d. 1994). British drummer (d. 1994)
• 1941 - Jürgen Prochnow was born. German actor
• 1941 - Shirley Owens was born. Singer, member of the Shirelles
• 1942 - Preston Manning was born. Canadian politician
• 1942 - World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich. Na vila checa de Lidice, todos os 172 homens e rapazes com mais de 16 anos são mortos, em retaliação pela morte do chefe das SS e governador do Protectorado alemão da Boémia-Moravia, actual território da República Checa, Reinhard Heydrich. As mulheres foram enviadas para o campo de concentração de Ravensbruck onde a maior parte morreu. Noventa crianças foram enviadas para o campo de Gneisau. A vila foi completamente arrasada.
• 1943 - The ball-point pen was patented in the USA.
• 1944 - World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
• 1944 - Portugal: National Stadium (Estádio do Jamor) is inaugurated / O Estádio Nacional é inaugurado oficialmente no decorrer das comemorações do «Dia da Raça».
• 1944 - In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
• 1946 - Jack Johnson dies (b. 1878). Boxer.
• 1947 - Alexander Bethune dies (b. 1852). Twelfth Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.
• 1949 - Sigrid Undset dies (b. 1882). Norwegian author, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1949 - Ronald James Padavona (a.k.a. Ronnie James Dio) was born. Heavy metal singer
• 1951 - Dan Fouts was born. American football star
• 1953 - John Edwards was born. U.S. Senator
• 1956 - 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 1956 - In Argentina loyalists smashed a Peronist revolt. 26 rebels were executed.
• 1957 - Lindsay Hoyle was born. British politician
• 1958 - Angelina Weld Grimke dies (b. 1880). Journalist and poet.
• 1962 - Gina Gershon was born. American actress
• 1963 - Jeanne Tripplehorn was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. American actress.
• 1964 - Jimmy Chamberlin was born. Musician.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
• 1965 - Elizabeth Hurley was born. British actress
• 1967 - Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
• 1967 - Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1967 - Spencer Tracy dies (b. 1900). Actor.
• 1968 - Jimmy Shea was born. American skeleton racer
• 1971 - Joel Hailey aka JoJo, was born. R&B singer
• 1971 - Michael Rennie dies (b. 1909). Actor.
• 1973 - Faith Evans was born. R&B singer
• 1973 - William Inge dies (b. 1913). Playwright.
• 1973 - Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
• 1974 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester dies (b. 1900) .
• 1974 - Eurico Gaspar Dutra dies. President of Brazil.
• 1976 - Adolph Zukor dies (b. 1873). Producer.
• 1976 - Freddy Garcia was born. Baseball pitcher
• 1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
• 1977 - James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13).
• 1978 - Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1979 - Joaquim Paço d'Arcos dies. Portuguese writer.
• 1980 - The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
• 1980 - Percy Wood, president of United Airlines, is injured by an exploding package sent by the Unabomber.
• 1982 - Addie "Micki" Harris dies (b. 1940). Singer (Shirelles).
• 1982 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder dies (b. 1945). Author, movie director.
• 1982 - Princess Madeleine of Sweden was born.
• 1982 - Tara Lipinski was born. Figure skater.
• 1982 - Leelee Sobieski (Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski), was born. Actress ( Charlie Grace, Deep Impact, Joan of Arc [TV: 1999], Eyes Wide Shut, Squelch) .
• 1985 -The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.
• 1985 - Mário Soares, Rui Machete and Ernâni Lopes, for Portugal, signed the Treaty of Accession of Portugal to Economic European Comunity
• join assinam o Tratado de Adesão de Portugal à Comunidade Económica Europeia.
• 1986 - Merle Miller dies (b. 1919). American novelist and biographer.
• 1988 - Louis L'Amour dies in Los Angeles (b. 1908). American author, western novelist.
• 1990 - Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru by a narrow margin over novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.
• 1991 - In what was dubbed "The Mother of All Parades," New York City hosts a parade welcoming back troops from Operation Desert Storm.
• 1993 - Les Dawson dies (b. 1933). British comedian.
• 1993 - Arleen Auger dies. American soprano
• 1994 - Alice Cruz dies. Portuguese television presenter.
• 1996 - George Hees dies (b. 1910). Canadian politician.
• 1996 - Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin.
• 1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
• 1997 - The former Black Panther Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt, convicted for the killing of a white schoolmistress in 1972, was released from prison in the USA due to new evidence.
• 1998 - World Cup in footbal is opened in France.
• 1998 - Hammond Innes dies (b. 1914). English author.
• 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
• 2000 - Hafez al-Assad the “Lion of Damascus” dies (b. 1930). President of of Syria.
• 2000 - Arambam Somorendra dies (b. 1936). Playwright and social work.
• 2000 - Brian Statham dies (b. 1930).English cricketer.
• 2001 - Princess Leila of Iran dies (b. 1970)
• 2001 - Mike Mentzer dies (b. 1951). Philosopher, bodybuilder, and author.
• 2001 - In Italy Silvio Berlusconi, known as Il Cavaliere, became premier for a 2nd time and formed his Cabinet. He promised a 100-day revolution to transform the economy.
• 2001 - Pope John Paul II canonized Saint Rafqa
• 2002 - John Gotti dies (b. 1940). American mafia boss.
• 2003 - Launch of NASA's Mars Exploration rover The Spirit Rover.
• 2003 - Donald Regan dies (b. 1918). Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary
• 2003 - Dr Phil Williams dies (b. 1939) Welsh politician and scientist.
• 2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
• 2003 - Bernard Williams dies (b. 1929). English philosopher.
• 2004 - Ray Charles dies (b. 1930). American singer and musician.
• 2005 - Curtis Pitts does (b. 1915). American aircraft designer.
• Roman Empire - fourth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
• Portugal - National day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities.