What are the important events that happened on June 10? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 10: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 10 is the 162nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 28, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 477,216 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexacontadigon’ day.
Gemini is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 233 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,189 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 10 Historical Events
1838 –
Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
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.
1924 –
Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1935 –
Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1942 –
World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1967 –
Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1967 –
The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1999 –
Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 –
Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon’s first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
2002 –
The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
Who were born on June 10?
1825 –
Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1929 –
E. O. Wilson, American biologist
1942 –
Gordon Burns, Irish gameshow host and television presenter
1946 –
Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
1951 –
Dan Fouts, American football player
1968 –
Derek Dooley, American football coach
1969 –
Kate Snow, American TV journalist
1970 –
Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter (Soul Coughing)
1975 –
Altiyan Childs, Australian singer
1982 –
Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
Who died on June 10?
1075 –
Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
1424 –
Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1836 –
André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1899 –
Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
1937 –
Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1944 –
Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1958 –
Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
1982 –
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director and actor (b. 1945)
1998 –
Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
2010 –
Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b. 1939)
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