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, 485,976 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 ‘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

• 1793 –
  The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
• 1838 –
  Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
• 1871 –
  Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 U.S. Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
• 1898 –
  Spanish-American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
• 1935 –
  Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
• 1936 –
  The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
• 1942 –
  World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
• 1957 –
  John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
• 1977 –
  James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
• 1997 –
  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.

Who were born on June 10?

• 1935 –
  Vic Elford, British racing driver
• 1950 –
  Elías Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball pitcher
• 1962 –
  Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (Beyond) (d. 1993)
• 1964 –
  Kate Flannery, American actress
• 1967 –
  John Yoo, American attorney
• 1968 –
  Derek Dooley, American football coach
• 1972 –
  Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
• 1977 –
  Mike Rosenthal, American football player
• 1982 –
  Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
• 1984 –
  Johanna Kedzierski, German sprinter

Who died on June 10?

• 323 BC –
  Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
• 1556 –
  Martin Agricola, German composer (b. 1486)
• 1831 –
  Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
• 1959 –
  Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
• 1976 –
  Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
• 1993 –
  Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
• 2004 –
  Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1930)
• 2008 –
  Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-born Soviet writer (b. 1928)
• 2010 –
  Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b. 1939)
• 2011 –
  Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)