Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 10
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This is a list of selected June 10 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.June 10: Portugal Day (Portugal's National Day and the date of Luís de Camões' death (de Camões pictured))
- 1190 – The Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
- 1719 – Jacobite risings: British forces defeated an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards at the Battle of Glen Shiel in the Scottish Highlands.
- 1829 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Boat Race held on the Thames in London.
- 1838 – More than twenty-five Australian Aborigines were massacred near Inverell, New South Wales.
- 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
