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| Portugal Day; | refimprove section |
| 1719 – Jacobite risings: British forces defeated an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards at the Battle of Glen Shiel in the Scottish Highlands. | CN tags |
| 1805 – The United States signed a treaty with Yusuf Karamanli, the Pasha of Tripoli, ending the First Barbary War and agreeing to pay him US$60,000 in exchange for American prisoners of war. | appears on May 10 |
| 1829 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Boat Race held on the Thames in London. | refimprove section |
| 1864 – American Civil War: Confederates defeated a much larger Union force at the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads near Baldwyn, Mississippi. | refimprove |
| 1865 – Richard Wagner's revolutionary opera Tristan und Isolde received its premiere in Munich. | refimprove |
| 1871 – Nine days after Korean shore artillery attacked two American warships, an American punitive expedition landed and captured several forts on Ganghwa Island. | refimprove section |
| 1924 – Fascists kidnapped and killed Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome. | needs more footnotes |
| 1935 – Bolivia and Paraguay negotiated a ceasefire to end the Chaco War. | refimprove section |
| 1942 – Waffen-SS soldiers conducted the Lidice massacre in Czechoslovakia, killing over 200 male inhabitants in reprisal for the assassination of SS officer, Reinhard Heydrich. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – Waffen-SS soldiers conducted the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in Haute-Vienne, Nazi-occupied France, killing over 600 inhabitants. | refimprove section |
| Nils Økland |b|1882 | unreferenced section |
| * 1868 – Mihailo Obrenović, Prince of Serbia, was assassinated in the park of Košutnjak in Belgrade. | Large number of citation needed tags |
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- 731 - Tatwine was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa (pictured), Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
- 1329 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The heavily armed Byzantine army was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Pelekanon.
- 1692 – Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
- 1782 – King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then.
- 1838 – At least 28 unarmed Indigenous Australians were massacred at Myall Creek, New South Wales.
- 1878 – The League of Prizren was officially founded to "struggle in arms to defend the wholeness of the territories of Albania".
- 1886 – Mount Tarawera, a volcano in New Zealand's North Island, erupted, killing around 120 people and creating the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.
- 1916 – Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of creating a single unified and independent Arab state.
- 1918 – World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast, killing 89 of the crew.
- 1925 – The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, held its inaugural service at the Mutual Street Arena in Toronto.
- 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
- 1968 – The Royal New Zealand Navy adopted a unique white ensign, to distinguish its vessels from those of the Royal Navy.
- 1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she remained a captive until 2009.
- 2008 – War in Afghanistan: A U.S. airstrike resulted in the reported deaths of eleven paramilitary members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
- 2008 – Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashed on landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 of the 214 occupants on board.
- Born/died this day: | Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani |b|940| Cheng Rui |d|903| Isabella Andreini |d|1604| Princess Caroline of Great Britain |b|1713| Gustave Courbet |b|1819| Theodor Philipsen |b|1840| Cora Agnes Benneson |b|1851| Robert Brown |d|1858| Ninian Comper |b|1864| Margarito Bautista |b|1878|Sessue Hayakawa |b|1886| Edward Everett Hale |d|1909| Aud Blegen Svindland |b|1928| João Gilberto |b|1931| Dan Fouts |b|1951| Margaret Abbott |d|1955| Wang Yuegu |b|1980| Henryk Stażewski|d|1988| Alexandra Stan |b|1989| Christina Grimmie |d|2016|
Notes
- McMahon–Hussein Correspondence appears on March 10, so Arab Revolt should not appear in the same year
- Tulle massacre appears on June 9, so Oradour-sur-Glane should not appear in the same year
June 10: Dragon Boat Festival in China and Taiwan (2024)
John Diefenbaker
- 1624 – Thirty Years' War: France and the Dutch Republic concluded the Treaty of Compiègne, a mutual defence alliance.
- 1786 – Ten days after being formed by an earthquake, a landslide dam on the Dadu River in China was destroyed by an aftershock, causing a flood that killed an estimated 100,000 people.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army only suffered eight casualties in its victory at the Battle of Big Bethel in York County, Virginia.
- 1957 – Led by John Diefenbaker (pictured), the Progressive Conservative Party won a plurality of House of Commons seats in the Canadian federal election.
- 1987 – Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea.
- Isabella Andreini (d. 1604)
- Gustave Courbet (b. 1819)
- Ninian Comper (b. 1864)
- Alexandra Stan (b. 1989)