June 10 birthdays & history

Famous people born on June 10

• 1922Judy Garland, American actress and singer
• 1921Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II
• 1915Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1959Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager
• 1819Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor
• 1972Sundar Pichai, Indian-American businessman
• 1929E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic
• 1992Kate Upton, American model and actress
• 1832Nicolaus Otto, German engineer
• 1893Hattie McDaniel, American actress

What happened on June 10

• 731Tatwine was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1782King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then.
• 1829The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
• 1935American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
• 1944In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
• 1947Saab produces its first automobile.
• 1957Led by John Diefenbaker, the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of House of Commons seats in the Canadian federal election.
• 1964United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
• 1977James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
• 1996Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
• 2001Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
• 2002The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

Also observed on June 10

• World Art Nouveau Day (Worldwide)
• Portugal Day, also Day of Camões (Portugal and the Portuguese communities)