June 10th

 

Birthdays

Andre-Marie Ampere 1836
Hattie McDaniel 1889
Frederick Loewe 1901
Clyde Beatty 1903
Howlin' Wolf 1910
Terence Rattigan 1911
Saul Bellow 1915
Barry Morse 1919
Prince Philip (Britain) 1921
Judy Garland 1922
Earl Hammer 1923
Nat Hentoff 1925
June Haver 1926
Lloyd Jeffries 1926
Maurice Sendak 1928
Gardener McKay 1932
F. Lee Bailey 1933
Alexandra Stewart 1939
Jurgen Prochnow 1941
Shirley Alston (The Shirelles) 1941
Jeff Greenfield 1943
Rick Price (The Move, Wizzard) 1944
Kevin Corcoran 1945
Dan Fouts 1951
Andrew Stevens 1955
Kim and Kelley Deal (Breeders) 1961
Brent Sutter 1962
Elisabeth Shue 1963
Jeanne Tripplehorn 1963
Jimmy Chamberlain (Smashing Pumpkins) 1964
Elizabeth Hurley 1965
Linda Evangelista 1965
Doug McKeon 1966
Emma Anderson (Lush) 1967
Human Beatbox (Fat Boys) 1967
M. Doughty (Soul Coughing) 1970
Jo-Jo (Jodeci) 1971
Faith Evans 1973
Lemisha Grinstead (702) 1978
Tara Lipinsky 1982

 

Misc. History


1190 - Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army of the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem.

1776 - The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.

1793 - The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.

1801 - The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S. The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean.

1806 - New York's "Commercial Advertiser" became the first U.S. newspapter to cover the sport of harness racing.

1854 - The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, held its first graduation.

1889 - Hattie McDaniel was born. She, for her role in "Gone With the Wind," was the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

1898 - U.S. Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

1902 - The "outlook" or "see-through" envelope was patented by Americus F. Callahan.

1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.

1916 - Mecca, under control of the Turks, fell to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.

1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.

1924 - The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascists in Rome.

1924 - The Republican National Convention was broadcast by NBC radio. It was the first political convention to be on radio.

1925 - The state of Tennessee adopted a new biology text book that denied the theory of evolution.

1935 - Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain. In addition, Canada declared war on Italy.

1942 - The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.

1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.

1943 - The Allies began bombing Germany around the clock.

1944 - The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11 days).

1946 - Italy established a republic replacing its monarchy.

1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.

1954 - General Motors announced the gas turbine bus had been produced successfully.

1967 - Israel and Syria agreed to a cease-fire that ended the Six-Day War.

1970 - A fifteen-man group of special forces troops began training for Operation Kingpin. The operation was a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

1971 - The U.S. ended a 21-year trade embargo of China.

1977 - James Earl Ray escaped with 6 others from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee. Ray was recaptured June 13, 1977.

1983 - Johnny Bench announced his plans to retire. He was a catcher in the major leagues for 16 years.

1984 - The U.S. Army successfully tested an antiballistic missile.

1985 - Frank Sinatra was portrayed as a friend of organized crime in a "Doonesbury" comic strip. Over 800 newspapers carried the panel.

1985 - The Israeli army pulled out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.

1987 - An earthquake hit 15 states from Iowa to South Carolina.

1988 - Author Louis L'Amour died at age 80.

1990 - The Civic Forum movement won Czechoslovakia's first free elections since 1946. The movement was founded by President Vaclav Havel.

1990 - Bulgaria's former Communist Party won the country's first free elections in more than four decades.

1993 - It was announced by scientists that genetic material was extracted from an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

1994 - U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti's military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S.

1995 - 26 people were killed in Medellin, Columbia, by a bomb blast that was blamed on drug traffickers.

1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers in a 1-0 triple overtime game. The win ended a four-game sweep for the Stanley Cup.

1996 - Britain and Ireland opened Northern Ireland peace talks. The IRA's political arm Sinn Fein was excluded.

1997 - Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot killed his defense chief Son Sen and 11 members of his family. He then fled his northern stronghold. The news did not emerge for three days.

1998 - The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.

1999 - NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.