TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JUNE 10
1190 Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade.
1692 Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft.
1720 Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1776 The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes zoo opened in Paris. It was the first public zoo.
1801 The North African State of Tripoli declared war on the U.S. The dispute was over merchant vessels being able to travel safely through the Mediterranean.
1903 Binney & Smith Company began developing a product line of wax crayons. The product was named Crayola.
1905 Japan and Russia agree to peace talks brokered by President Theodore Roosevelt.
1916 Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Great Arab Revolt.
1924 The Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti is kidnapped and assassinated by Fascists in Rome.
1925 Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution.
1942 Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.
1948 The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.
1963 US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy
1967 The Six-Day War ends
1971 The U.S. ended a 21-year trade embargo of China.
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1985 Coca Cola announces they’d bring back their 99-year-old formula
1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity
1991 Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
1994 U.S. President Clinton intensified sanctions against Haiti’s military leaders. U.S. commercial air travel was suspended along with most financial transactions between Haiti and the U.S.
1998 The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that poor children in Milwaukee could attend religious schools at taxpayer expense.
1999 The Kosovo War ends
2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission
2003 Ontario, Canada issued the first full same-sex marriage licenses in North America.
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
