# On this day: June 10

June 10 is the 161st day of the year (162nd in leap years), with 204 days left until the end of the year.

## June 10 in one line

Headline entries for June 10, from Wikipedia: in 1916, Hussein, King of Hejaz, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of creating a single unified and independent Arab state; born 1922: Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969); died 1926: Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852). In 2026 it is a Wednesday, in 2027 a Thursday.

## Events on June 10

- 731 Tatwine was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatwine)
- 1190 Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Barbarossa)
- 1329 Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The heavily armed Byzantine army was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Pelekanon. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pelekanon)
- 1624 Thirty Years' War: France and the Dutch Republic concluded the Treaty of Compiègne, a mutual defence alliance. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Compi%C3%A8gne_(1624))
- 1692 Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Bishop)
- 1782 King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Palace)
- 1786 Ten days after being formed by an earthquake, a landslide dam on the Dadu River in China was destroyed by an aftershock, causing a flood that killed an estimated 100,000 people. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1786_Kangding-Luding_earthquake)
- 1838 At least 28 unarmed Indigenous Australians were massacred at Myall Creek, New South Wales. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myall_Creek_massacre)
- 1861 American Civil War: The Confederate Army only suffered eight casualties in its victory at the Battle of Big Bethel in York County, Virginia. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Big_Bethel)
- 1878 League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Prizren)
- 1886 Mount Tarawera, a volcano in New Zealand's North Island, erupted, killing around 120 people and creating the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886_eruption_of_Mount_Tarawera)
- 1913 During a labor strike in Ipswich, Massachusetts, police opened fire into a crowd of strikers, killing one and injuring several others. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913_Ipswich_Mills_strike)
- 1916 Hussein, King of Hejaz, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of creating a single unified and independent Arab state. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Revolt)
- 1918 World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast, killing 89 of the crew. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmatia)
- 1925 The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, held its inaugural service at the Mutual Street Arena in Toronto. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Canada)
- 1935 American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous)
- 1935 Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_War)
- 1957 Led by John Diefenbaker, the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of House of Commons seats in the Canadian federal election. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Diefenbaker)
- 1967 The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel)
- 1968 The Royal New Zealand Navy adopted a unique white ensign, to distinguish its vessels from those of the Royal Navy. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_White_Ensign)
- 1982 Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Lebanon_War)
- 1987 Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Democratic_Struggle)
- 1991 Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she remained a captive until 2009. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard)
- 2008 War in Afghanistan: A U.S. airstrike resulted in the reported deaths of eleven paramilitary members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gora_Prai_airstrike)
- 2008 Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashed on landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 of the 214 occupants on board. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan_Airways_Flight_109)
- 2024 A plane crash in Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Chikangawa_Dornier_228_crash)

## Born on June 10

- 940 Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (died 998) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_al-Wafa'_al-Buzjani)
- 1688 James Francis Edward Stuart, claimant to the English and Scottish throne (died 1766) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Francis_Edward_Stuart)
- 1819 Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1877) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Courbet)
- 1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer (died 1891) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Otto)
- 1880 André Derain, French painter and sculptor (died 1954) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Derain)
- 1893 Hattie McDaniel, American actress (died 1952) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel)
- 1897 Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Tatiana_Nikolaevna_of_Russia)
- 1915 Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow)
- 1921 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II (died 2021) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip%2C_Duke_of_Edinburgh)
- 1922 Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland)
- 1928 Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (died 2012) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sendak)
- 1929 E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic (died 2021) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson)
- 1931 João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Gilberto)
- 1938 Violetta Villas, Belgian-Polish singer-songwriter and actress (died 2011) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violetta_Villas)
- 1959 Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Ancelotti)
- 1965 Elizabeth Hurley, English model, actress, and producer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hurley)
- 1972 Sundar Pichai, Indian-American businessman [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai)
- 1982 Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Madeleine%2C_Duchess_of_H%C3%A4lsingland_and_G%C3%A4strikland)
- 1982 Tara Lipinski, American figure skater [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Lipinski)
- 1985 Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilis_Torosidis)
- 1992 Kate Upton, American model and actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Upton)
- 1999 Rafael Leão, Portuguese footballer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Le%C3%A3o)

## Died on June 10

- 38 Julia Drusilla, Roman sister of Caligula (born 16 AD) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30s)
- 1190 Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1122) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Barbarossa)
- 1580 Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet (born 1524–25) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%C3%ADs_de_Cam%C3%B5es)
- 1836 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9-Marie_Amp%C3%A8re)
- 1849 Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (born 1773) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brown_(botanist%2C_born_1773))
- 1926 Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD)
- 1940 Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded the Black Star Line (born 1887) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Garvey)
- 1949 Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigrid_Undset)
- 1967 Spencer Tracy, American actor (born 1900) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Tracy)
- 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1945) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder)
- 2000 Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (born 1930) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez_al-Assad)
- 2004 Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1930) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Charles)
- 2008 Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat (born 1928) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinghiz_Aitmatov)
- 2023 Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (born 1942) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski)

## Holidays and observances

- World Art Nouveau Day (Worldwide) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Art_Nouveau_Day)
- Christian feast day: Bogumilus [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogumilus)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Diana degli Andalò [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_degli_Andal%C3%B2)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Edward Poppe [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Poppe)
- Christian feast day: Getulius, Amancius, Cerealus and Primitivus [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getulius)
- Christian feast day: Guardian Angel of Portugal [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_Portugal)
- Christian feast day: John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Tobolsk)
- Christian feast day: Landry of Paris [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landry_of_Paris)
- Christian feast day: Maurinus of Cologne [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurinus_of_Cologne)
- Christian feast day: Maximus of Aveia (or of Aquila) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximus_of_Aveia)
- Christian feast day: Olivia [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_of_Palermo)
- Christian feast day: June 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_10_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics))
- Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese communities) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_Day)

## Sources

- [Wikipedia — “June 10”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_10) — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/June 10”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/June_10) — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence)](https://github.com/vacanza/holidays) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article [“June 10”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_10) and the articles it links to ([authors and history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_10?action=history)), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for June 10 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.

## June 10 in the calendar

| Year | Weekday | ISO week | Moon (UTC) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Wednesday | 2026-W24 | 🌘 Waning Crescent |
| 2027 | Thursday | 2027-W23 | 🌒 Waxing Crescent |
| 2028 | Saturday | 2028-W23 | 🌖 Waning Gibbous |
| 2029 | Sunday | 2029-W23 | 🌘 Waning Crescent |
| 2030 | Monday | 2030-W24 | 🌔 Waxing Gibbous |

Moon phases are for the day in UTC; at the edges of a phase your local date can differ.

## Public holidays on June 10

- [🇵🇹 Portugal](https://whathappen.today/holidays/portugal/): Day of Portugal, Camões, and the Portuguese Communities (2026 and 2027)

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