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10 June, 2003
The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
10 June, 2001
Pope John Paul II canonizes Saint Rafqa
10 June, 2000
Swaying Millennium Bridge closed - London's newest bridge is closed for safety checks after large crowds cause it to sway violently.
10 June, 1999
Nato calls off air war on Kosovo - Nato suspends its 11-week aerial war on Kosovo as Serb troops begin to withdraw.
10 June, 1997
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold
10 June, 1996
Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin.
10 June, 1986
Magee convicted of Brighton bombing - Patrick Joseph Magee is found guilty of planting the Brighton bomb which killed five people two years ago.
10 June, 1980
The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
10 June, 1977
Killer perch outwitted by electric rod - An elusive goldfish-eating perch with a prodigious appetite is finally netted after two years on the rampage in a Kent pond. Apple Computer ships its first Apple II personal computer.
10 June, 1967
Israel ends six-day war - Israeli forces stop their advance into Syria and comply with a UN ceasefire bringing to an end six days of fighting on three fronts.
10 June, 1965
Vietnam War: Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
10 June, 1947
Saab produces its first automobile.
10 June, 1944
World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 children, women and men were massacred by German troops. 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France
10 June, 1942
World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
10 June, 1940
World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces. Canada declares war on Italy. German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with "Stab in the Back" speech from the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
10 June, 1935
Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob
10 June, 1924
Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
10 June, 1918
Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
10 June, 1898
Spanish-American War: US Marines land on the island of Cuba.
10 June, 1886
Eruption of Mount Tarawera in New Zealand, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
10 June, 1846
Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.
10 June, 1829
First Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.
10 June, 1692
Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
10 June, 1190
Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.

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