On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 10 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 10:
1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1201 - Battle of Capua: Walter of Brienne defeats Dietpoldo di Acerra.
1328 - Battle of Fucecchio: The Luccans defeat the Florentines.
1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt.
1719 - Battle of Glen Shiel between the British government and an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards, resulting in a victory for the British forces.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: John Adams proposes a Continental Army.
1801 - Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.
1805 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
1807 - Battle of Heilsberg: French defeat the Russians.
1826 - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey.
1848 - Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte.
1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel Virginia (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kellar's Bridge Kentucky, Licking River.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads – Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1871 - Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1898 - Spanish-American War: US Marines land on the island of Cuba.
1915 - World War I: British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon.
1916 - World War I: Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Arab Revolt.
1917 - World War I: Italians renew battle on mountain-tops in Trentino.
1918 - World War I: Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom; Canada declares war on Italy.
1940 - World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel.
1940 - World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces.
1942 - World War II: German troops burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1943 - World War II: The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock.
1943 - World War II: Japanese CV Hiyo hit by two to four torpedoes from the submarine USS Trigger. Towed to Yokosuka for repairs by escorting destroyer Isuku.
1944 - World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.
1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 children, women and men were massacred by German troops.
1945 - World War II: Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1965 - Vietnam War: Battle begins at Dong Xoai.
1967 - Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1982 - Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut.
1984 - U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for first time.
1985 - The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.
1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
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