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 162^nd 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.

June 10 Historical Events

• 1539 –
  Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
• 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.
• 1829 –
  The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
• 1854 –
  The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
• 1918 –
  The Austro-Hungarian battleship Ship SMS sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
• 1936 –
  The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
• 1944 –
  World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
• 1967 –
  Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
• 1977 –
  James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.

Who were born on June 10?

• 1632 –
  Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
• 1657 –
  James Craggs the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
• 1915 –
  Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
• 1919 –
  Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)
• 1940 –
  Augie Auer, U.S.-born New Zealand meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007)
• 1959 –
  Eliot Spitzer, American politician
• 1976 –
  Stefan Postma, Dutch football player
• 1977 –
  Adam Darski (Nergal), Polish vocalist and guitarist (Behemoth)
• 1984 –
  Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
• 1988 –
  Patrik Lindberg, Swedish Counter-Strike player

Who died on June 10?

• 1075 –
  Ernest, Margrave of Austria (b. 1027)
• 1680 –
  Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
• 1776 –
  Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
• 1982 –
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director and actor (b. 1945)
• 1992 –
  Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (b. 1931)
• 1993 –
  Arleen Auger, American soprano (b, 1939)
• 1998 –
  Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
• 2003 –
  Donald Regan, American Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
• 2004 –
  Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
• 2007 –
  Augie Auer, American-born New Zealand meteorologist and TV presenter (b. 1940)