History Events on June 10

Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city will not recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.

#Copenhagen

The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.

#The_Boat_Race

First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.

#First_Barbary_War

China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.

#DF-31

The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

#Kevin_Warwick

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.

#Khmer_Rouge

John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.

#John_Diefenbaker

Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.

#Chaco_War

Mihailo Obrenovi? III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.

#Mihailo_Obrenovi?

Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.

#Northern_Ireland

Spanish-American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba.

#Spanish-American_War

The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.

#Battle_of_Pelekanon

An Agusta A109E Power crashed onto the AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, which sparked a fire on the top of the building. The pilot of the helicopter was killed.

#AgustaWestland_AW109

Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.

#Thirty_Years'_War

In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.

#Baseball

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.

#Austro-Hungarian_Navy

The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

#African_National_Congress

World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.

#Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre

The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.

#Arab_Revolt

The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.

#Six-Day_War

The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.

#Equal_Pay_Act_of_1963

World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.

#World_War_II

Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of ?tsu.

#Emperor_Tenji

Saab produces its first automobile.

#Saab_Automobile

French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.

#French_Revolution

Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.

#Second_Australian_Imperial_Force

Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

#Pope_John_Paul_II

James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.

#James_Earl_Ray

Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17 km long fissure across the mountain peak.

#Mount_Tarawera

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.

#American_Civil_War

United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.

#Filibuster

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.

#Council_of_Trent

Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.

#Treaty_of_Compiègne_(1624)

World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.

#German_occupation_of_Norway

The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

#Spirit_(rover)

Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries".

#Salem_witch_trials

Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered.

#Myall_Creek_massacre

The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.

#United_States_Naval_Academy

World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.

#Franklin_D._Roosevelt

Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.

#Third_Crusade

World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.

#Distomo

League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.

#League_of_Prizren

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.

#British_Airways_Flight_5390

Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Miloševi? agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

#Kosovo_War

88-year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opened fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.

Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.

The Syrian Arab Army led by generals Ali and Habib Mahmood defeat the Israeli Defense Forces near Sultan Yacoub, Lebanon, during the 1982 Lebanon War resulting in 30 dead and three missing for the IDF, ten tanks lost and three APCs destroyed.

World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.

Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.

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.

The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.

A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.

King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) is crowned.

Jacobite risings: Battle of Glen Shiel.

Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.