Birthdates Which Occur on June 10:
1613 Johan Georg II elect of Saxon (1656-80)
1630 Willem van Bemmel Dutch painter/etcher
1637 Jacques Marquette jesuit/missionary founder (Chicago)
1688 James III Edward Old Pretender, recognized as King of Britain by Pope
1706 John Dollond owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
1735 John Morgan American physician-in-chief of Continental Army
1781 Giovanni Battista Polledro composer
1782 Amable-G-P B de Barante French politician/historian
1790 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul composer
1791 V clav Hanka Czech author/interpreter/forger
1808 Friedrich Kaiser Dutch astronomer (Kaiser compass-card)
1819 J D Gustave Courbet French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
1831 W A Remy composer
1832 Edwin Arnold English writer (Light of India)
and Jules Valls French journalist/communard/author (L'insurg)
and Nikolaus A Otto German technician (gas motor, otto motor)
1834 Hendrik Pierson Dutch theologist (HP Foundation)
1835 Constant A Serrure Flemish historian
and Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ ruler of Toscane
1836 Yamaoka Tesshu Japanese swordsman/master of kendo
1838 Meyer E van Beem actor (Black Venus)
1840 Thomas Fentress Toon Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1843 Heinrich Herzogenberg composer
1844 J Albert Neuhuys Dutch painter (Haagse school)
and Karl Hagenbeck German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen)
1847 Paul Alexis French writer (Soires de Mdan)
1859 Jacques F H Perk Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song)
1861 Josephus T J Cuypers Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem)
and Pierre M M Duhem French naturalist/philosopher/historian
1863 Louis M A Couperus Dutch poet/writer (Eline Vere)
1865 Frederick A Cook US, explorer (claimed falsely to be at North Pole)
1869 Gustave Vanzype Belgian literary/headed La Gazette
1879 Benjamin Lambord composer
and Dezs Szab¢ Hungarian writer (Weggevagde Village)
1882 Neville Henderson British diplomat
1886 Baron Josse Emile van Dievoet Flemish lawyer
1888 Leo Weismantel German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
1889 Cliff Clark actor (Kid Glove Killer, Golden Hoofs, Vigilante Hideout)
1890 Paul J M Lindemans Flemish agricultural engineer/author
and Powell Weaver composer
and Sessue Hayakawa Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
1893 Franz Andr Belgian conductor
1894 Pavel Borkovec Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
1895 Immanuel Velikovsky writer (Worlds in Collision)
1898 Hattie McDaniel Wichita, 1st Black to win Oscar (Gone With The Wind)
and Virginia Valli [McSweeney], Chicago IL, actress (Pleasure Garden)
1899 Raoul Salan Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)
19-- Franco Santunone rocker (Electric Boys-Funk-o-metal Carpet Ride)
and Garry Walberg Buffalo NY, actor (Speed-Odd Couple, Quince ME)
and Randee Heller Bkln NY, actress (Alice-Soap, Mama Malone, Better Days)
and Susan Haskell actress (Marty-One Life to Live)
and Vanity [Tisa], XXX actress (Hometown Honeys 3, Tropical Temptations)
1900 Henri Bruning Dutch literary
1902 Gaston Brenta composer
and J Wouterus van Dieren Dutch biologist (Terschelling)
1903 Clyde Beatty US animal trainer/actor (Big Cage)
and Theo Lingen German director/actor (M, Charm of La Boheme) [or Jun 19]
1904 Frederick Loewe composer/partner of Learner
1906 Janos Viski composer
1908 Brinsley Ford CEO (National Art Collections Fund)
and Ernst B Chain German chemist/bacteriologist penicillin, Nobel 1945)
1909 Erwin Dressel composer
1910 Howlin' Wolf [Chester Arthur Burnett], harmonica (Big City Blues)
and Robert Still composer
1911 Ralph Kirkpatrick Leominster Mass, harpsichordist
and Terence Rattigan playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version)
1912 Leslie Brown Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
and William Gordon Harris civil engineer
1913 John Edmunds composer
and Thor Johnson Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cin Symph 1958)
and Tikhon Nikoleyevich Khrennikov composer
and Van Carlyle Wilton-Davies archdeacon Emeritus (Oxford)
and Wilbur J Cohen 1st employee of Social Security System
1914 Polly Hill Dr/anthropologist
and Saul Bellow author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)
1915 Oscar Comras Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park)
1916 Bill Waddington actor/comedian
1917 William Barr rector (Exeter College, Oxford)
1920 Zbynek Vostrak composer
1921 Philip Mountbatten Greece, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II
1922 Judy Garland [Frances Gumm], Mich, actress/singer (Wizard of Oz)
and Rose Moffard AZ acting Governor
1923 Earl Hamner Jr Schuyler Va, TV narrator (Waltons)
and Robert Maxwell [Jan Hoch], Czech, billionaire/CEO (NY Daily News)
1925 Don Costa rocker
and Nat Hentoff columnist/novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society)
1926 June Haver Rock Island, actress (Dolly Sisters, Girl Next Door)
and Lionel Jeffries actor (Fanny, Prisoner of Zenda)
and Willem Oltmans Dutch journalist (Outlawed, Free as a Bird)
1927 Michael Walsh major-general/director (Overseas Relations)
1928 Maurice Sendak NYC, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are)
1929 Harald Juhnke Berlin Germany, actor (Guitars of Love)
and James McDivitt Chicago, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
and Vasile Herman composer
1932 Gardner McKay NYC, actor (Pleasure Seekers, Boots & Saddles)
and George Burns British TV host
and J Bennett Johnston (Sen-D-LA, 1972- )
1933 F Lee Bailey Waltham Mass, attorney (Sam Shepard case)
1934 Nicolas Roussakis composer
and Paul Gibson British high court judge
1935 Tom Pendry Labour MP
1936 Graham Carleton Greene literary agent
1937 Richard Foreman NYC, theatrical director (Daily Life)
1939 Alexandra Stewart Montral, actress (In Praise of Older Women)
and Guy Harwood horse trainer
1941 Harry Muskee Dutch rock vocalist (Cuby & Blizzards)
and Shirley Alston Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1942 Janet Vogel rocker (Skyliners)
1943 Jeff Greenfield NYC, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline)
and Simon Jenkins editor (Times)
1944 Rick Price rocker (Move)
1945 Martin Wesley-Smith composer
and Ron Glass Evansville Ind, actor (Ron-Barney Miller, New Odd Couple)
1946 Matthew Fisher England, keyboardist (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
and Mensje F van Keulen-van der Steen Dutch writer (Bleeker's Summer)
1947 Ken Singleton Mt Vernon NY, baseball player (Orioles)
1951 Burglinde Pollak German DR, pentathlete (Olympics-bronze-1972)
and Dan Fouts NFL QB (San Diego Chargers)
1955 Andrew Stevens Memphis Tn, actor (Seduction, Boys in Company C, Fury)
1959 Timothy Van Patten Bkln NY, actor (White Shadow, Master)
1961 Maxi Priest [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1962 Duane Sutter NHL player (NY Islander)
1965 Linda Evangelista Canada, super model
1966 Doug McKeon NJ, actor (Big Shamus Little Shamus, Centennial)
and Elizabeth Hurley Basingstroke England, actress (Christabel)
1967 Human Beatbox [Darren Robinson], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1971 Leannza Cornet TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1973 David Friedman LA Calif, actor (Jason-Little House on the Prairie)
1991 James Cleveland McFadden-Talbot son of Gates McFaden (Star Trek NG)
Deaths Which Occured June 10:
1190 Frederik I van Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa" German King, dies
1247 Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies
1556 Martin Agricola [M Sore] German composer/cantor, dies
1560 Mary de Guise queen-mother of Scotland
1580 Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados), dies
1584 Franois-Hercule de Valois French crown prince, dies at 28
1588 Valentin Weigel German mystic, dies
1654 Alessandro Algardi Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58
1727 George Ludwig German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67
1800 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz German composer, dies at 53
1834 Antonius van Gils RC theologist (against Relief), dies at 75
1836 Andr M Ampre French mathematician/physicist (Amp), dies
1839 Nathaniel Pryor sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
1849 Frederic Kalkbrenner composer, dies at 63
1868 Michael Obrenovic ruler of Sweden, murdered
1883 Carl Gradener composer, dies at 71
1893 Elek Erkel composer, dies at 49
1899 Ernest Chausson French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
1902 Auguste Schmidt German teacher/feminist, dies at 68
1903 Alexander I King of Serbia are assassinated
Dragia Queen of Serbia, assassinated
Luigi Cremona Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
1918 Arrigio Enrico Boito composer, dies at 76
1923 Gustav Enestrm Swedish historian, dies at 70
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud], French sea officer/writer, dies
1924 Giacomo Matteotti Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
1926 Antonio Gaudi y Cornet Spanish architect, dies
1934 Frederick Delius English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72
1941 Herschel Mayall actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78
Marcus Garvey US black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52
1942 Jean Van Royen Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63
1943 Abd al-Azir al-Hasan VI sultan of Morocco (1894-1907), dies at ñ62
1944 French Duwaer Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
Gerrit Jan van der Veen [Wolffensperger], resister, executed at 41
Johan Limpers sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28
1946 Jack Johnson 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident
1949 Sigrid Undset Norse author (Olav Audunssín, Nobel 1928), dies at 67
1953 Grzlegorz Fitelberg composer, dies at 73
1954 Will Rossiter composer, dies at 87
1963 Anita King actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74
1964 Louis Gruenberg composer, dies at 79
1967 Frank Butler actor/sreenwriter, dies at 76
Spencer Tracy US actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67
1968 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin composer, dies at 65
1969 Frank Lawton actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64
1971 Michael Rennie actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
Virginia Eames entertainer, dies of heart attack at 82
1973 William M Inge US playwright (Come Back Little Sheba), dies at 60
1974 Henry WFA English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden, dies at 74
1976 Adolph Zukor Hungarian/US fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103
1981 Russell "Lucky" Hayden actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68
1982 Addie "Micki" Harris US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42
Rainer Werner Fassbinder German director, dies of drug overdose at 36
1985 Bob Prince sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
George Chandler actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
1987 Elizabeth Hartman actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at 45
1988 Louis L'Amour western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer
1989 Richard Quine director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68
1991 Vercors [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
1992 Hachidal Nakamura composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure
Otto FAH van Nispen mayor of Pannerden/(KVP) 1st Chamber, dies at 85
Peter Von Zerneck actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84
1993 Alice Reinhart entertainer, dies at 83
Arleen Augr US soprano (Matthus Passion), dies at 53
Richard Webb actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77
1994 Edward Kienholz US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66
Holidays Which Occur June 10:
Argentina Affirmation of Argentina's Rights over Malvinas
Azores Camoes Day (1580)
Cape Verde, Macau, Maderia, Portugal Day of Portugal (1580)
Samoa Independence day (1962)
Religious Observances on June 10:
RC-Vatican City Sacred Heart Day (moveable feast)
RC Maurinus, abbot/martyr to Cologne
RC Onuphrius, Abessinisch hermit/patron saint of Mnchen
373 Ang Commemoration of Ephrem of Edessa Syria/deacon
1093 old RC Commemoration of St Margaretha, Queen of Scotland/widow
Things to Remember for June 10:
Black Music-National Rose Month-Pest Control Month-Dairy Month
Flower-rose & honeysuckle Gem-moonstone, pearl & alexandrite
National Accordion Month-National Tennis Month
National Adopt-a-Cat-Vacation-American Rivers Month
Ragweed Control-Zoo & Aquarium-Gay Pride Month
7 Days Zeta Perseid meteor shower
11 Days Astrological sign: Gemini
Highlights in History Which Occur June 10:
1358 French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured
1538 Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg
1540 Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister
1605 Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time
1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1624 Netherlands & France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compigne
1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador
1639 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1648 Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
1652 1st US currency printed (Boston)
1682 Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
1720 Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1761 Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island
1772 Burning of Gaspe, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders
1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind
1793 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1794 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms
and France revolutionary regime begins trials
and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church founded
1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
1818 Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
1826 Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1847 Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
and Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1850 Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
1854 Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved
1857 England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1861 Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats
1863 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
1864 Battle of Kellar's Bridge KY (Licking River)
and Battle of Waynesboro VA
1865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Mnich Germany
1868 2nd Belmont Stakes, General Duke wins
1869 Agnes arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
1880 Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
1882 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1892 Wilbert Robinson of Balt Orioles sets record of 7 for 7 in 9 inn game
& gets then record 11 RBIs
1898 US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1899 Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1911 Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1916 Great Arab Revolt begin
1917 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
and Limburgse mine workers strike
1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
1926 Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
1931 Norway occupies East-Greenland
1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1933 Johnny Goodman wins US Open golf tournament
1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
and USSR & Romania regain diplomatic relations
1935 Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1940 French government moves to Bordeaux
and German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
and German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
and Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
and Norway surrenders to nazis
1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
and Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich
1943 FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
and FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
1944 Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player
and Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
1946 Italian Republic established
1949 Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier
1950 Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens
1952 Chic White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
and Pres Truman desires nationalizing steel industry
1954 KQED TV channel 9 in San Francisco, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
and PBS reaches SF: KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
and KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
and John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada
1959 Rocky Colovito hits 4 HRs in 1 game
1962 A record 54 home runs hit in baseball
and Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3¬"
1963 JFK signs law for equal premium for men & women
1964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2370 van Altena
1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
and Beatles record "Rain", 1st to use reverse tapes
and Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0
and Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif
and Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
and USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel
1968 KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
and WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast
1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill
1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges &
moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)
1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1974 Rumor's govt in Italy resigns
1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1976 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
and James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
1978 Steve Cauthen on Affirmed wins 110th Belmont Stakes (2:26.8)
and Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
1979 Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)
and Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
and Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits
and Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence
and Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
1982 Battle of Sultan Yakoub - 3 IDF members captured
and Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
1984 Boston beats Los Angeles, for NBA championship
and Ivan Lendl wins French Open, his 1st grand slam title
and US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
and Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)
1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
and Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
and French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
1987 Discovery's SRBs & External Tank are mated
1988 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
1989 Major French Open upset, as Spain's Arantxa Sanchez, 17 beats heavily
favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title
1990 Andres Gomez beats Andre Agassi for French Open title
and Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing
and Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland
and Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity
1991 Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
and South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
1992 Intelsat K launched
1994 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/í 2,5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
Your Special Reminders for June 10:
161st day of year with 204 days left (Numerology = 7)
and 1972 49øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1984 95øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
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