June 10 1329 The Battle of Pelekanon results in a Byzantine defeat by the Ottoman Empire.
June 10 1523 Copenhagen is surrounded by the army of Frederick I of Denmark, as the city won't recognise him as the successor of Christian II of Denmark.
June 10 1619 Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
June 10 1793 French Revolution: Following the arrests of Girondin leaders, the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship.
June 10 1805 First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
June 10 1854 The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students.
June 10 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia.
June 10 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
June 10 1871 Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
June 10 1898 Spanish–American War: U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba.
June 10 1916 The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
June 10 1918 The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
June 10 1935 Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
June 10 1940 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
June 10 1940 World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.
June 10 1942 World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
June 10 1944 World War II: Six hundred forty-two men, women and children massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France.
June 10 1944 World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
June 10 1945 Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
June 10 1982 The Syrian Arab Army led by generals Ali and Habib Mahmood defeat the Israeli Defense Forces near Sultan Yacoub, Lebanon, during the 1982 Lebanon War resulting in 30 dead and three missing for the IDF, ten tanks lost and three APCs destroyed.
June 10 1994 China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
June 10 1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
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