June 10 facts for kids

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June 10 in recent years

June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 204 days remain until the end of the year.

Every day, history is made! From ancient inventions to modern discoveries, June 10th has seen many important moments. Let's explore some of the exciting events, famous birthdays, and notable people who passed away on this day throughout history.

Historical Events on June 10
Birthdays on June 10
Notable Deaths on June 10
Holidays and Celebrations
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Historical Events on June 10

Ancient Times and Middle Ages

In 671, Japan's Emperor Tenji introduced a special water clock called Rokoku. This amazing device helped people tell time and marked the hours in the capital city of Ōtsu.
During the Third Crusade in 1190, Frederick I Barbarossa, a powerful leader, sadly drowned in the Saleph river while leading his army toward Jerusalem.
The Battle of Pelekanon in 1329 was the last big effort by the Byzantine Empire to keep its cities in Asia Minor.
In 1358, a major battle called the Battle of Mello took place. Peasant fighters, known as the Jacquerie, were defeated by the French nobility's army.
The city of Copenhagen was surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark in 1523. The city refused to accept him as the new king after Christian II of Denmark.
In 1539, Pope Paul III sent letters to his bishops, putting off the important Council of Trent. This was because of ongoing wars and how hard it was for bishops to travel to Venice.
Explorers Willem Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discovered Bear Island in 1596.

From the 1600s to the 1900s

The Thirty Years' War saw a key moment in 1619 with the Battle of Záblatí. This battle was a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
In 1624, the Treaty of Compiègne was signed between France and the Netherlands.
The Jacobite risings continued in 1719 with the Battle of Glen Shiel.
Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) became the King of Siam (now Thailand) in 1782. He was officially crowned on this day.
A huge landslide dam on the Dadu River in China collapsed in 1786, killing about 100,000 people. This dam was formed by an earthquake ten days earlier.
The Jardin des Plantes museum opened in Paris in 1793. A year later, it became the first public zoo!
Also in 1793, during the French Revolution, the Jacobins gained control of the government after some leaders were arrested. This led to a period known as the revolutionary dictatorship.
In 1805, the First Barbary War ended when Yusuf Karamanli signed a peace treaty with the United States.
The very first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge happened on the Thames in London in 1829.
The United States Naval Academy saw its first group of students graduate in 1854.
During the American Civil War in 1861, Confederate troops won the Battle of Big Bethel in Virginia.
Mexico City was captured by French troops in 1863 during the French intervention in Mexico.
Another American Civil War battle, the Battle of Brice's Crossroads, took place in Mississippi in 1864. Confederate troops won this battle too.
Mihailo Obrenović III, the Prince of Serbia, was sadly assassinated in 1868.
In 1871, during the Sinmiyangyo, US Marines attacked forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
The League of Prizren was created in 1878. This group wanted to stop Albanian lands from being divided up and given to neighboring countries.
Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupted in 1886, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. The eruptions lasted for three months.
The Spanish–American War began its American invasion of Cuba in 1898 with the Battle of Guantánamo Bay.

The 20th and 21st Centuries

The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was officially declared in 1916 by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
In 1918, the Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sank off the Croatian coast after being hit by an Italian motorboat. This event was even filmed!
Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and killed by Fascists in Rome in 1924.
The Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ended with a truce in 1935.
In 1940, Fascist Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom, starting an invasion of southern France.
Also in 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke out against Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech.
Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ended on this day in 1940.
In 1944, terrible massacres occurred in Oradour-sur-Glane and Distomo, Greece, where many innocent people were killed by German troops.
A young baseball player named Joe Nuxhall, only 15 years old, became the youngest player ever in a major-league game in 1944.
Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay in 1945 to free Brunei.
Saab made its first car in 1947.
In 1957, John Diefenbaker led his party to a big win in the Canadian election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963, which aimed to stop wage differences based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy in 1963.
The United States Senate ended a long filibuster in 1964, which helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Six-Day War ended in 1967 when Israel and Syria agreed to stop fighting.
In 1980, the African National Congress in South Africa shared a message from their jailed leader, Nelson Mandela, calling for a fight for freedom.
The June Democratic Struggle began in South Korea in 1987, with people protesting against the government.
British Airways Flight 5390 made a safe landing in Southampton Airport in 1990 after a cockpit window blew out, causing the captain to be partially pulled out! Amazingly, no one died.
In 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was held captive for many years until 2009.
NATO stopped its airstrikes in Kosovo in 1999 after Slobodan Milošević agreed to remove Serbian forces.
Pope John Paul II made Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa, in 2001.
The first direct electronic communication between two human nervous systems happened in the United Kingdom in 2002, thanks to Kevin Warwick.
NASA launched the Spirit rover in 2003, starting its Mars Exploration Rover mission to explore Mars.
The Opportunity rover sent its last message back to earth in 2018, ending its long and successful mission on Mars.

Birthdays on June 10

Born Before 1600

867 – Emperor Uda of Japan.
940 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, a Persian mathematician and astronomer.
1213 – Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, a Persian poet and philosopher.
1465 – Mercurino Gattinara, an Italian statesman and legal expert.
1557 – Leandro Bassano, an Italian painter.

Born Between 1601 and 1900

1632 – Esprit Fléchier, a French bishop and author.
1688 – James Francis Edward Stuart, who claimed the English and Scottish throne.
1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain.
1753 – William Eustis, an American physician and politician, who became the 12th Governor of Massachusetts.
1804 – Hermann Schlegel, a German expert on birds and reptiles.
1819 – Gustave Courbet, a famous French-Swiss painter and sculptor.
1825 – Sondre Norheim, a Norwegian-American skier.
1832 – Edwin Arnold, an English poet and journalist.
1832 – Nicolaus Otto, a German engineer.
1835 – Rebecca Latimer Felton, an American educator and politician.
1840 – Theodor Philipsen, a Danish painter.
1854 – Sarah Grand, an Irish writer who supported women's rights.
1863 – Louis Couperus, a Dutch author and poet.
1865 – Frederick Cook, an American physician and explorer.
1880 – André Derain, a French painter and sculptor.
1886 – Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor and producer.
1893 – Hattie McDaniel, a famous American actress.
1897 – Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.

Born After 1900

1901 – Frederick Loewe, an Austrian-American composer.
1904 – Lin Huiyin, a Chinese architect and poet.
1910 – Howlin' Wolf, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1911 – Terence Rattigan, an English playwright and screenwriter.
1912 – Jean Lesage, a Canadian lawyer and politician, who became the 11th Premier of Quebec.
1915 – Saul Bellow, a Canadian-American novelist and Nobel Prize winner.
1916 – William Rosenberg, an American entrepreneur who founded Dunkin' Donuts.
1918 – Patachou, a French singer and actress.
1921 – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
1922 – Judy Garland, a beloved American actress and singer.
1928 – Maurice Sendak, an American author and illustrator, famous for Where the Wild Things Are.
1929 – James McDivitt, an American general, pilot, and astronaut.
1929 – E. O. Wilson, an American biologist and author.
1931 – João Gilberto, a Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1935 – Vic Elford, an English racing driver.
1938 – Rahul Bajaj, an Indian businessman and politician.
1941 – Jürgen Prochnow, a German actor.
1942 – Preston Manning, a Canadian politician.
1947 – John Edwards, an American lawyer and politician.
1958 – Yu Suzuki, a Japanese game designer and producer.
1959 – Carlo Ancelotti, an Italian footballer and manager.
1961 – Kim Deal, an American singer-songwriter and musician.
1962 – Gina Gershon, an American actress, singer, and author.
1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, an English model, actress, and producer.
1966 – David Platt, an English footballer and manager.
1968 – Bill Burr, an American comedian and actor.
1971 – Bobby Jindal, an American journalist and politician, who became the 55th Governor of Louisiana.
1972 – Sundar Pichai, an Indian-American businessman, CEO of Google.
1973 – Faith Evans, an American singer-songwriter and actress.
1974 – Dustin Lance Black, an American screenwriter and director.
1977 – Adam Darski (Nergal), a Polish singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1982 – Tara Lipinski, an American figure skater.
1982 – Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland.
1983 – Leelee Sobieski, an American actress and producer.
1985 – Kaia Kanepi, an Estonian tennis player.
1985 – Andy Schleck, a Luxembourger cyclist.
1989 – David Miller, a South African cricketer.
1989 – Alexandra Stan, a Romanian singer-songwriter.
1992 – Kate Upton, an American model and actress.
1997 – Cheung Ka-long, a Hong Kong foil fencer and 2020 Olympic champion.
1999 – Rafael Leão, a Portuguese footballer.
1999 – Blanche, a Belgian singer.

Notable Deaths on June 10

Passed Away Before 1600

AD 38 – Julia Drusilla, Roman sister of Caligula.
223 – Liu Bei, a Chinese emperor.
779 – Emperor Daizong of Tang.
754 – Abul Abbas al-Saffah, a Muslim caliph.
1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1437 – Joan of Navarre, Queen of England.
1552 – Alexander Barclay, an English poet and author.
1580 – Luís de Camões, a famous Portuguese poet.

Passed Away Between 1601 and 1900

1604 – Isabella Andreini, an Italian actress.
1692 – Bridget Bishop, a woman hanged during the Salem witch trials.
1735 – Thomas Hearne, an English historian.
1799 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a Caribbean-French violinist and composer.
1836 – André-Marie Ampère, a French physicist and mathematician, known for his work with electricity.
1849 – Robert Brown, a Scottish botanist.
1868 – Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia.
1899 – Ernest Chausson, a French composer.

Passed Away After 1900

1906 – Richard Seddon, an English-New Zealand politician, who was the 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand.
1909 – Edward Everett Hale, an American minister and author.
1918 – Arrigo Boito, an Italian author, poet, and composer.
1923 – Pierre Loti, a French soldier and author.
1924 – Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian lawyer and politician.
1926 – Antoni Gaudí, a Spanish architect, famous for designing the Park Güell.
1937 – Robert Borden, a Canadian lawyer and politician, who was the 8th Prime Minister of Canada.
1940 – Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican journalist and activist.
1946 – Jack Johnson, a famous American boxer.
1949 – Sigrid Undset, a Danish-Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize winner.
1967 – Spencer Tracy, a well-known American actor.
1974 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
1976 – Adolph Zukor, an American film producer who helped found Paramount Pictures.
1982 – Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a German actor, director, and screenwriter.
1988 – Louis L'Amour, an American novelist.
1993 – Les Dawson, an English comedian and actor.
1996 – Gordie Howe, a legendary Canadian ice hockey player.
2000 – Hafez al-Assad, a Syrian general and politician, who was the 18th President of Syria.
2001 – Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran.
2003 – Donald Regan, an American colonel and politician, who was the 11th White House Chief of Staff.
2004 – Ray Charles, a famous American singer-songwriter and pianist.
2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, a Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat.
2016 – Christina Grimmie, an American singer-songwriter.

Holidays and Celebrations

Abolition Day (French Guiana)
Army Day (Jordan)
World Art Nouveau Day (Worldwide)
Christian feast day:
- Bardo
- Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus
- Guardian Angel of Portugal
- John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church)
- Landry of Paris
- Maurinus of Cologne
- Maximus of Aveia (or of Aquila)
- Maximus of Naples
- Olivia
- June 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Navy Day (Italy)
Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese communities)
Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo)