Today in History - Famous Events

🏰 On this day in History - June 10, 2026

1639 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)

1962 A record 54 home runs hit in baseball

1964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked

1916 Great Arab Revolt begin

1968 "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV

1973 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills

1848 Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte

1966 Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"

1893 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53¬

1915 British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon

1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges & moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)

1996 Colo Avalanche sweeps Fla Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods

1898 US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War

1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II

1848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago

1940 French government moves to Bordeaux

1793 1st public zoo opens in Paris

1933 65th Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6

1880 Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning

1979 49th French Mens Tennis: Bj”rn B”rg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64)

1990 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland

1868 2nd Belmont: Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02

1985 French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ

1952 Pres Truman desires nationalizing steel industry

1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute

1972 Elvis Presley records a live album at NY's Madison Square Garden

1876 10th Belmont: William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40«

1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time

1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail

1850 Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)

1940 German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen

1972 104th Belmont: Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28

1818 Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"

1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife

1984 Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)

1892 Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game

1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan

1979 Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)

1952 St Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby

1720 Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard

1990 "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 52 perfs

1922 54th Belmont: C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8

1995 127th Belmont: Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32

1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)

1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze

1995 65th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60)

1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill

1974 Rumor's govt in Italy resigns

1994 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1934 USSR & Romania regain diplomatic relations

1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass

1993 "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances

1990 Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing

1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island

1955 KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting

1944 Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player

1940 German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker

1911 Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam

1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland

1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM

1938 Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch v Australia at Trent Bridge

1991 Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops

1984 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75)

1935 Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous

1939 Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts

1946 Italian Republic established

1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful

1954 KQED TV channel 9 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting

1772 Burning of Gasp‚e, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders

1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif

1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II

1968 AL games at Balt & Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy

1794 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms

1964 Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago

1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome

1989 59th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title

1944 Joe Nuxhall, 15, of Cin Reds is youngest player in major league

1979 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young

1956 Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament

1871 5th Belmont: W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56

1538 Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg

1989 "Tales From The Crypt," TV Anthology, debuts on HBO

1944 Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France

1943 FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime

1959 Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game

1990 "Meet Me in St Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 perfs

1966 Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0

1954 PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting

1826 Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey

1968 WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast

1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind

1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada

1988 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)

1648 Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov

1971 44th National Spelling Bee: Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon

1847 Chicago Tribune begins publishing

1940 Norway surrenders to nazis

1917 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)

1899 Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati

1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament

1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported

1358 French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured

1978 Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis

1997 Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0

1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine

1793 Washington replaced Philadelphia as US capital

1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM

1952 Chic White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)

1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me

1857 England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system

1967 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel

1794 France revolutionary regime begins trials

1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison

1992 Intelsat K launched

1984 Ivan Lendl wins French Open, his 1st grand slam title

1990 60th French Mens Tennis: Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64)

1996 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson

1981 Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co

1761 Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island

1966 Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)

1982 John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA

1933 37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill

1984 38th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3

1987 Discovery's SRBs & External Tank are mated

1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity

1605 Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time

1917 Limburgse mine workers strike

1975 Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, & another part is set afire

1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire

1995 "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 perfs

1995 Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer

1990 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus

1916 48th Belmont: E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22

1991 "Twin Peaks," on ABC-TV

1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador

1974 Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof

1864 Battle of Waynesboro VA

1949 Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier

1861 Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats

1950 50th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA

1652 In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America

1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit

1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA

1991 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton

1989 121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26

1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula

1863 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds

1992 "Price" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 47 performances

1966 Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes

1869 'Agnes'arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef

1996 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip

1540 Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister

1982 Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured

1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)

1981 Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence

1950 Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens

1915 Girl Scouts founded

1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173

1981 Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits

1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK

1994 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel

1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans

1931 Norway occupies East-Greenland

1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland

1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL

1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!

1864 Battle of Kellar's Bridge KY (Licking River)

1991 South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises

1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm

1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help

1882 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans

1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms

1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic

1963 JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women

1985 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell

1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich

1932 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England

1890 24th Belmont: Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75

1926 Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle

1865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance MЃnich Germany

1994 Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic

1982 "Taxi," last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall

1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship

1957 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs

1854 Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved

1978 110th Belmont: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8

1976 49th National Spelling Bee: Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy

1996 Stanley Cup: Colo Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games

1891 25th Belmont: Ed Garrison aboard Foxford wins in 2:08.75

1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens

1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean

1682 Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree

1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut

1962 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3¬"

1976 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome

1624 Netherlands & France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of CompiЉgne

1950 82nd Belmont: William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6

1809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila

1968 KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

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