June 10
| 1190 | Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade. | |
| 1692 | Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft. | |
| 1776 | The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence. | |
| 1801 | Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute. | |
| 1854 | The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation. | |
| 1861 | Dorothea Dix is appointed superintendent of female nurses for the Union army. | |
| 1864 | At the Battle of Brice's Crossroads in Mississippi, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest defeats the numerically superior Union troops. | |
| 1898 | U.S. Marines land in Cuba. | |
| 1905 | Japan and Russia agree to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt. | |
| 1909 | An SOS signal is transmitted for the first time in an emergency when the Cunard liner SSSlavonia is wrecked off the Azores. | |
| 1916 | Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt. | |
| 1920 | The Republican convention in Chicago endorses woman suffrage. | |
| 1924 | The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome. | |
| 1925 | Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution. | |
| 1940 | The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans. | |
| 1942 | Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich. | |
| 1943 | The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock. | |
| 1944 | The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy's beaches, link up and begin moving inland. | |
| 1948 | The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947. | |
| 1963 | Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government. | |
| 1970 | A 15-man group of special forces troops begin training for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam. | |
| 1985 | The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation. | |
| 1999 | Serb forces begin their withdrawl from Kosovo after signing an agreement with the NATO powers. |
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