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 161^st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 28, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,749,513,600 seconds 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 ‘hectahexacontahenagon’ 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 252 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 4,554 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

June 10 Historical Events

• 1786 –
  A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
• 1793 –
  French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
• 1793 –
  The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
• 1861 –
  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.
• 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.
• 1878 –
  League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.
• 1935 –
  Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
• 1944 –
  World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
• 1980 –
  The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
• 2001 –
  Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon’s first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

Who were born on June 10?

• 1832 –
  Stephen Mosher Wood, American Politician (d. 1920)
• 1840 –
  Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
• 1865 –
  Frederick Albert Cook, American explorer and physician, claimed to have reached the North Pole in 1908 (d. 1940)
• 1880 –
  André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
• 1884 –
  Leone Sextus Tollemache, British Army captain (d. 1917)
• 1895 –
  Hattie McDaniel, American actress (d. 1952)
• 1959 –
  Carlo Ancelotti, Italian football player and manager
• 1972 –
  Steven Fischer, American film producer and director
• 1987 –
  Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
• 1990 –
  Valeen Montenegro, Filipino actress

Who died on June 10?

• 1552 –
  Alexander Barclay, English poet (b. c. 1476)
• 1831 –
  Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
• 1963 –
  Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
• 1967 –
  Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
• 1973 –
  William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
• 1991 –
  Jean Bruller, French writer (b. 1902)
• 1992 –
  Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (b. 1931)
• 1996 –
  George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 –
  Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
• 2004 –
  Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)