History of the Day for:
June 10
- 1801: Tripoli declared war on the United States over safe passage of merchant ships.
- 1865: The opera "Tristan und Isolde" by Richard Wagner premiered in Munich, Germany.
- 1922: Singer/actress Judy Garland (nee Frances Gumm) was born in Grand Rapids, Minn.
- 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
- 1940: Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
- 1944: Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds hurled his first major-league game on this day. At 15 years, 10 months and 11 days old, he became the youngest pitcher in major league baseball.
- 1954: General Motors announced that the first successful gas turbine bus had been produced.
- 1964: The US Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.
- 1967: The Six Day War in the Middle East ended under a U.N.-negotiated cease fire; Actor Spencer Tracy died at 67 in Beverly Hills, Calif.
- 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.
- 1978: "Affirmed," ridden by Steve Cauthen, won the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown.
- 1983: Baseball's Johnny Bench announced his plans to retire from the game.
- 1993: Scientists announced they had extracted genetic material from the preserved remains of an insect that had lived when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
- 1996: Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
- 1997: Before fleeing his northern stronghold Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
- 1999: Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- 2001: Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa.
- 2002: The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
- 2003: The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.