Today in
History ~ June 10
Portuguese National Day
Events
1358 - French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured
1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister
1605 - False Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time
1610 - 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1652 - Silversmith John Hull and Robert Saunderson, in defiance of English colonial law, established the first mint in America and became the first official mint masters in the American colonies.
1692 - First Salem witch hanging [H]
1720 - Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1752 - Ben Franklin flies kit in storm, kite is struck by lightning
1761 - Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island
1772 - Burning of the Gaspee British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
1776 - Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration
of Independence
1794 - Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms
1794 - France revolutionary Reign of Terror begins
1801 - The north African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.
1818 - Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La Gaza Ladra"
1847 - Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1848 - 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1850 - Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
1854 - Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
1861 - Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats
1863 - Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
1865 - The Richard Wagner opera "Tristan und Isolde" premiered in Munich, Germany.
1869 - Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
1880 - Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
1892 - Wilbert Robinson gets 7 base hits in 1 baseball game
1898 - US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1910 - Portuguese National Day
1911 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 - Girl Scouts founded
1916 - Great Arab Revolt begin
1917 - 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
1921 - Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120
1932 - 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1935 - Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson form Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron,
Ohio
1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy. [H]
1940 - Norway surrenders to Germany [H]
1942 - The German Gestapo burned the tiny village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia after they massacred all the men (173), 71 women and shipped the remaining women and children to concentration camps, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
1943 - FDR 1st US pres to visit foreign country during wartime
1943 - FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
1943 - Hungarian Laszlo Biro invented the ball-point pen.
1944 - Joe Nuxhall at 15 became youngest ML baseball player
1944 - Nazi SS troops massacre 642 civilians in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
1946 - Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.
1952 - Pres Truman tries to nationalize steel industry
1954 - PBS reaches San Francisco: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
1955 - 1st virus separated into component parts - reported
1957 - Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
1957 - John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada
1959 - Rocky Colovito hits 4 HRs in 1 game
1963 - JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women
1964 - The Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.
1966 - Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
1975 - Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1977 - Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six other inmates; he was recaptured June 13.
1984 - Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 2.39 m
1985 - Coca Cola announces they'll bring back their 99-year-old formula
1985 - French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
1985 - Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., at his retrial on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.
1986 - Queen Elizabeth II knighted the founder of "Live Aid", Irish rock musician Bob
Geldof.
1987 - South Koreans demanding free elections launched a wave of violent demonstrations.
1989 - Rev. Jerry Falwell said his conservative lobbying group, the Moral Majority, had accomplished its goals and would be disbanded.
1990 - Two members of the rap group 2 Live Crew were arrested in Hollywood, Fla. (They and a third band member were later acquitted of obscenity charges.)
1991 - "Twin Peaks," on ABC-TV
1991 - Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
1991 - Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted, spewing debris as far as 20 miles away.
1992 - President George H.W. Bush dropped Secretary of State James A. Baker III from his trip to the Earth Summit in Brazil, instructing him to step up negotiations for a new agreement with Russia to reduce long-range nuclear missile stockpiles.
1992 - Texas law officers urged a boycott of Time-Warner and Warner Bros. over a recording by rap artist Ice-T that they said encouraged the shooting of officers.
1993 - The scientific journal "Nature" published an article about the extraction of genetic material from an ancient insect
1994 - President Clinton froze most financial transactions between the United States and Haiti and suspended all commercial flights to the Caribbean nation, effective June 25.
1995 - A bomb blamed on drug traffickers exploded in Medellin, Colombia, killing 26 people.
1995 - Cuba announced the arrest of U.S. financier-turned fugitive Robert Vesco on spying charges. Vesco had fled the United States in 1972 ahead of embezzlement charges.
1995 - U.S. Air Force Capt. Scott O'Grady, rescued on June 8 after being shot down over Bosnia on June 2, described his six-day ordeal at a news conference at Aviano Air Base in Italy, saying he was no Rambo and no hero.
1996 - Anthony Marceca confirmed to Congress that he ran FBI background checks from the White House, using a list of White House pass holders that included many officials from the previous administration. Marceca says he looked for derogatory information and gave it to his boss, Craig Livingstone.
1996 - Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
1997 - Former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt was released on bail after 27 years behind bars on what he says were trumped-up murder charges. (Authorities decided against retrying him.)
1997 - Pope John Paul II bade farewell to his native Poland as he ended an 11-day pilgrimage.
1998 - A jury in Jacksonville, Fla., found the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. liable in the lung cancer death of a smoker. The jury awarded his family $950,000, including $450,000 in punitive damages -- the first such assessment in a smoking related lawsuit.
1999 - The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the city of Chicago went too far in its fight against street gangs by ordering police to break up groups of loiterers.
1999 - Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
2001 - The death toll from the flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison rose to 16 in Texas and Louisiana.
2001 - The Supreme Court, without comment, turned down a request to allow the videotaping of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution, scheduled for the following day.
2002 - Authorities said that as of June 10, some
22 major fires in seven Western
states had burned 780 square miles.
Birthdays
Today
1706 - John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
1819 - J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
1889 - Hattie McDaniel (Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind [1939]: 1st African-American to win Oscar; Judge Priest, The Little Colonel, Showboat, Saratoga, Since You Went Away)
1890 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
1895 - Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
1901 - Frederick Loewe (Oscar-winning composer: Gigi [1958], My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon w/lyricist Alan Jay Lerner)
1903 - Clyde Beatty (circus performer, lion tamer, circus owner)
1904 - Frederick Loewe, composer
1908 - Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945)
1910 - Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) (blues singer: How Many More Years, Smoke Stack Lightning, Evil)
1911 - Terence Rattigan (playwright: The V.I.P.s, The Winslow Boy, The Day Will Dawn)
1915 - Saul Bellow (writer: The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet, Dangling Man, The Victim, Henderson the Rain King)
1919 - Barry Morse (actor: The Fugitive, A Tale of Two Cities, Asylum, Glory! Glory!, Master of the Game, Space: 1999)
1921 - Prince Philip (Mountbatten), (Duke of Edinburgh; married to Queen Elizabeth II) (Mr Elizabeth II ?)
1922 - Judy Garland (Frances Gumm) (singer: Over the Rainbow, The Trolley Song, You Made Me Love You, The Man that Got Away; actress: The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Star is Born, Easter Parade, The Harvey Girls, Judgment at Nuremberg; mother of Liza Minnelli and Lorna & Joey
Luft)
1923 - Earl Hamner (writer: The Waltons; executive producer: Falcon Crest)
1926 - June Haver (Stovenour) (actress: The Dolly Sisters, Look for the Silver Lining, Love Nest)
1928 - Maurice Sendak (author, illustrator: Chicken Soup with Rice, Where the Wild Things Are)
1929 - James A. McDivitt, U.S. astronaut (Gemini 4 Apollo 9)
1933 - F. (Francis) Lee Bailey (defense attorney: O.J. Simpson, Patty Hearst, The Boston Strangler, Dr. Sam Sheppard)
1941 - Shirley Owens Alston (singer: group: The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Soldier Boy, Tonight's the Night, Dedicated to the One I Love, Baby It's You, Foolish Little Girl)
1943 - Jeff Greenfield (commentator: ABC News analyst)
1945 - Kevin Corcoran (actor: A Tiger Walks, Johnny Shiloh, Old Yeller, Savage Sam, The Shaggy Dog)
1947 - Ken Singleton (baseball)
1951 - Andrew Stevens (actor: Code Red, Dallas, Emerald Point N.A.S., Illicit Dreams, Scorned, The Terror Within, The Bastard, The Rebel; son of actress, Stella Stevens)
1951 - Dan Fouts (Pro Football Hall of Famer: San Diego Chargers quarter back: AFC Player of the Year [1979]; NFL Player of the Year [1982]; NBC sportscaster)
1951 - Steve King (football)
1953 - Rick Camp (baseball)
1966 - Doug McKeon (actor: On Golden Pond, Turnaround, Breaking Home Ties, Mischief, Desperate Lives, Night Crossing)
1982 - Tara Lipinski, Philadelphia Pa, figure skater (1997 World Champ)
Famous
deaths
1190 - Frederik I van
Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa", German King, dies
1580 - Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes - Portugal's national poet - dies
1692 - Bridget Bishop of Salem, first of those accused of
witchcraft to be executed. [H]
1836 - Andre M Ampere, French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies
1885 - Arizona Deputy Sheriff Billy Daniels is killed
by Apache [H]
1903 - Alexander I, King of Serbia assassinated
1903 - Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
1941 - Marcus Garvey, US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
1946 - Jack Johnson, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident
1988 - Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer
1991 - Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
1993 - Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77
2000 - Syrian President Assad died from a heart attack at age 69. He had ruled
Syria since 1970. He was succeeded by his son, Bashar.
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