Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 10
This is a list of selected June 10 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Portugal Day; | refimprove section |
| 1719 – Jacobite risings: British forces defeated an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards at the Battle of Glen Shiel in the Scottish Highlands. | needs more footnotes |
| 1805 – The United States signed a treaty with Yusuf Karamanli, the Pasha of Tripoli, ending the First Barbary War and agreeing to pay him US$60,000 in exchange for American prisoners of war. | appears on May 10 |
| 1829 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Boat Race held on the Thames in London. | refimprove section |
| 1864 – American Civil War: Confederates defeated a much larger Union force at the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads near Baldwyn, Mississippi. | refimprove |
| 1865 – Richard Wagner's revolutionary Tristan und Isolde received its premiere in Munich. | refimprove |
| 1871 – Nine days after Korean shore batteries attacked two American warships, an American punitive expedition landed and captured several forts on Ganghwa Island. | refimprove section |
| 1924 – Fascists kidnapped and killed Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome. | needs more footnotes, neutrality issues |
| 1935 – Bolivia and Paraguay negotiated a ceasefire to end the Chaco War. | needs more footnotes, date not cited |
| 1944 – Waffen-SS soldiers conducted the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in Haute-Vienne, Nazi-occupied France, killing over 600 inhabitants. | needs more footnotes |
| 2016 – American singer and songwriter Christina Grimmie was shot and killed after her performance at The Plaza Live in Orlando, Florida. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1329 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: A heavily armed imperial force was defeated in the Battle of Pelekanon.
- 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by an earthquake ten days earlier was destroyed by an aftershock, causing a flood that killed an estimated 100,000 people.
- 1838 – Up to 30 Indigenous Australians were massacred near Inverell, New South Wales.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army only suffered eight casualties in its victory in the Battle of Big Bethel in York County, Virginia.
- 1886 – Mount Tarawera, a volcano in the North Island of New Zealand, erupted, killing up to 150 people and creating the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.
- 1925 – The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant church, held its inaugural service in Toronto's Mutual Street Arena.
- 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- 1957 – Led by John Diefenbaker, the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of the seats in the Canadian House of Commons in the federal election, bringing an end to 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
- 1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she remained a captive until 2009.
- Born/died this day: Cheng Rui (d. 903) · Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (b. 940) · Nils Økland (b. 1882)
- 1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
- 1692 – Bridget Bishop became the first person executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials.
- 1878 – The League of Prizren was officially founded "to struggle in arms to defend the wholeness of the territories of Albania".
- 1918 – World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István (pictured) off the Dalmatian coast.
- 2008 – War in Afghanistan: An airstrike by the United States resulted in the deaths of eleven paramilitary members of the Pakistan Army Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Princess Caroline of Great Britain (b. 1713) · Sessue Hayakawa (b. 1886) · Margaret Abbott (d. 1955)