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 161st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 204 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 28, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,158,560 minutes 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 ‘hectahexacontahenagon’ day.
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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 252 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 4,554 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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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.
- 1619 –Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
- 1793 –French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
- 1838 –Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel. Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
- 1924 –Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- 1944 –In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
- 1945 –Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
- 1967 –Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1967 –The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
Who were born on June 10?
- 1753 –William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
- 1910 –Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
- 1912 –Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
- 1927 –Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
- 1951 –Dan Fouts, American football player
- 1957 –Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
- 1963 –Brad Henry, American politician
- 1968 –Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
- 1973 –Flesh-N-Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
- 1979 –Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek football player
Who died on June 10?
- 1552 –Alexander Barclay, English poet (b. c. 1476)
- 1607 –John Popham, English politician (b. 1531)
- 1836 –André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
- 1849 –Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
- 1901 –Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
- 1909 –Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
- 1959 –Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
- 1973 –William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
- 1987 –Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943)
- 2005 –Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
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