June 10
1692 - The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.
1801 - The Tripolitan War, between the United States and the Barbary States, began.
1907 - Eleven men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris. (Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in the French capital two months later.)
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain during World War II.
1942 - The entire male population of the Czech village of Lidice was massacred in retaliation for the death of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
1946 - Italy replaced its monarchy with a republic.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at eliminating wage disparities based on gender.
1967 - The Six-Day War between Israel and Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan came to an end as both sides accepted a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
1971 - President Richard Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.
1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others. (He was recaptured three days later.)
1991 - Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard of South Lake Tahoe, California, was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Jaycee was held by the couple for 18 years before she was found by authorities.
2003 - Ontario, Canada issued the first same-sex marriage licenses in North America.
2009 - James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, opened fire in the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., killing a security guard. (Von Brunn died at a North Carolina hospital in January 2010 while awaiting trial.)
2013 - A trial began in Sanford, Florida, in the trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman was acquitted.)
2020 - Protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy.
2022 - Britney Spears married her longtime partner Sam Asghari at a Southern California ceremony that came months after the pop superstar won her freedom from a court conservatorship. (Asghari would file for divorce 14 months later.)
2023 - Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician known as the “Unabomber” who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died at a federal prison medical center.
Birthdays
21 - Eden McCoy (actress)
23 - Sasha Obama (daughter of President Barack Obama)
32 - Kate Upton (actress/model)
34 - Tristin Mays (actor)
35 - Titus Makin (actor)
39 - Bridget Kearney (musician)
42 - Tara Lipinski (figure skater)
45 - Lee Brice (singer)
46 - Shane West (actor)
46 - DJ Qualls (actor)
49 - Hugh Dancy (actor)
51 - Faith Evans (singer)
54 - Mike Doughty (singer)
56 - Bill Burr (comedian)
57 - Emma Anderson (musician)
58 - Doug McKeon (actor)
59 - Elizabeth Hurley (actress/model)
60 - Kate Flannery (actress)
60 - Ben Daniels (actor)
61 - Jeanne Tripplehorn (actress)
62 - Gina Gershon (actress)
63 - Maxi Priest (singer)
69 - Andrew Stevens (actor)
73 - Dan Fouts (football player)
75 - Frankie Faison (actor)
85 - Alexandra Stewart (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 10
1921 - Babe Ruth became baseball's all-time home run leader with 120.
1934 - Italy defeats Czechoslovakia 2-1 to win the World Cup.
1944 - The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11 days).
1975 - Pele signed a three-year contract with the U.S. based Cosmos.
1978 - Affirmed became the 11th to win horse racing's Triple Crown.
1981 - Pete Rose got his 3,630th career hit. The feat tied Stan Musial's National League record.
1983 - Johnny Bench announces his retirement from baseball.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky won the NHL's MVP award for the ninth time.
1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers to win the Stanley Cup.
2000 - The New Jersey Devils defeat the Dallas Stars to win the Stanley Cup.
2005 - Babe Ruth's 1919 contract that sent him from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees was sold at auction for $996,000.
2016 - Muhammad Ali was laid to rest in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, after an all-day send-off.
2016 - Hockey great Gordie Howe died at age 88.
1692 - The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.
1801 - The Tripolitan War, between the United States and the Barbary States, began.
1907 - Eleven men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris. (Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in the French capital two months later.)
1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
1940 - Italy declared war on France and Britain during World War II.
1942 - The entire male population of the Czech village of Lidice was massacred in retaliation for the death of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
1946 - Italy replaced its monarchy with a republic.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at eliminating wage disparities based on gender.
1967 - The Six-Day War between Israel and Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan came to an end as both sides accepted a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
1971 - President Richard Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.
1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others. (He was recaptured three days later.)
1991 - Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard of South Lake Tahoe, California, was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Jaycee was held by the couple for 18 years before she was found by authorities.
2003 - Ontario, Canada issued the first same-sex marriage licenses in North America.
2009 - James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, opened fire in the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., killing a security guard. (Von Brunn died at a North Carolina hospital in January 2010 while awaiting trial.)
2013 - A trial began in Sanford, Florida, in the trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman was acquitted.)
2020 - Protesters pulled down a century-old statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy.
2022 - Britney Spears married her longtime partner Sam Asghari at a Southern California ceremony that came months after the pop superstar won her freedom from a court conservatorship. (Asghari would file for divorce 14 months later.)
2023 - Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician known as the “Unabomber” who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died at a federal prison medical center.
Birthdays
21 - Eden McCoy (actress)
23 - Sasha Obama (daughter of President Barack Obama)
32 - Kate Upton (actress/model)
34 - Tristin Mays (actor)
35 - Titus Makin (actor)
39 - Bridget Kearney (musician)
42 - Tara Lipinski (figure skater)
45 - Lee Brice (singer)
46 - Shane West (actor)
46 - DJ Qualls (actor)
49 - Hugh Dancy (actor)
51 - Faith Evans (singer)
54 - Mike Doughty (singer)
56 - Bill Burr (comedian)
57 - Emma Anderson (musician)
58 - Doug McKeon (actor)
59 - Elizabeth Hurley (actress/model)
60 - Kate Flannery (actress)
60 - Ben Daniels (actor)
61 - Jeanne Tripplehorn (actress)
62 - Gina Gershon (actress)
63 - Maxi Priest (singer)
69 - Andrew Stevens (actor)
73 - Dan Fouts (football player)
75 - Frankie Faison (actor)
85 - Alexandra Stewart (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 10
1921 - Babe Ruth became baseball's all-time home run leader with 120.
1934 - Italy defeats Czechoslovakia 2-1 to win the World Cup.
1944 - The youngest pitcher in major league baseball pitched his first game. Joe Nuxhall was 15 years old (and 10 months and 11 days).
1975 - Pele signed a three-year contract with the U.S. based Cosmos.
1978 - Affirmed became the 11th to win horse racing's Triple Crown.
1981 - Pete Rose got his 3,630th career hit. The feat tied Stan Musial's National League record.
1983 - Johnny Bench announces his retirement from baseball.
1989 - Wayne Gretzky won the NHL's MVP award for the ninth time.
1996 - The Colorado Avalanche defeated the Florida Panthers to win the Stanley Cup.
2000 - The New Jersey Devils defeat the Dallas Stars to win the Stanley Cup.
2005 - Babe Ruth's 1919 contract that sent him from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees was sold at auction for $996,000.
2016 - Muhammad Ali was laid to rest in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, after an all-day send-off.
2016 - Hockey great Gordie Howe died at age 88.
