June 10<\/p>\n
323 BC \u2013 Alexander the Great dies in Babylon.<\/p>\n
1190 \u2013 During the Third Crusade, Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
1692 \u2013Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries”.<\/p>\n
1805 \u2013 Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the First Barbary War between Tripolitania and the United States.<\/p>\n
1854 \u2013 The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of Midshipmen<\/p>\n
1861 \u2013 Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce at Big Bethel in Virginia<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis at Brice’s Crossroads in Mississippi.<\/p>\n
1871 \u2013 During the United States Expedition to Korea, Captain McLane Tilton USMC leads his 109 Marines in an attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.<\/p>\n
1898 \u2013 In the Battle of Guant\u00e1namo Bay during the Spanish-American War, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Cuba.<\/p>\n
1916 \u2013 The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire is declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. A few months later, British Military Intelligence sends Captain T.E. Lawrence to determine which of the Arab leaders to support on this new front against a German ally.<\/p>\n
1940 \u2013 The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy’s actions in his “Stab in the Back” speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2013 The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of SS Obergruppenf\u00fchrer Reinhard Heydrich.<\/p>\n
1944 \u2013 15 year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major league game.<\/p>\n
1963 \u2013 The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.<\/p>\n
1964 \u2013 The Senate breaks a 54 day long filibuster by 18 southern Democratic Senators and 1 Republican Senator against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill’s passage.<\/p>\n
1967 \u2013 The Six-Day War ends as Israel and Syria agree to a cease fire.<\/p>\n
1977 \u2013 James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.<\/p>\n
1988 \u2013 Louis L’Amour, American novelist and short story writer dies at his home in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 11 year old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until August 2009.<\/p>\n
2003 \u2013 The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit<\/em> is launched from Cape Canaveral, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover missions.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 88 year old James von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., murdering Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who is arrested and while in custody dies of natural causes in January 2010 while still awaiting trial.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 The Opportunity<\/em> rover sends it last message back to earth. The mission is finally declared over on February 13, 2019.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 Enroute from New York to Linden, New Jersey, an Agusta A109E helicopter crashes onto the AXA Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, killing the pilot, the only one aboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 10 323 BC \u2013 Alexander the Great dies in Babylon. 1190 \u2013 During the Third Crusade, Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem. 1692 \u2013Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries”. 1805 \u2013 Yusuf Karamanli signs … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55830"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93474,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55830\/revisions\/93474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}