The Phenomenon of June 10: A Day Filled with Surprises and Celebrations Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1930  Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms   

1931  Norway occupies East-Greenland   

1932  The inaugural demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass   

1932  1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass   

1933  37th US Golf Open: Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill.   

1934  Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome   

1934  Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida), dies at 72   

1935  Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in New York City   

1935  Dr Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous   

1938  Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch v Australia at Trent Bridge.   

1939  Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts   

1940  Italy declares war on France and Britain while Canada declares war on Italy.   

1940  French government moves to Bordeaux.   

1941  Recruitment commenced for the Torres Strait Defence Force to be drawn from the indigenous population of the Torres Strait Islands The Force included the Torres Strait Regiment   

1941  Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 78   

1942  Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo results in the deaths of 173   

1942  Jean François van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort, dies at 63   

1943  FDR is recorded as becoming inaugural US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime.   

1943  FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!).   

1943  Lieutenant Commander F. A. Erickson, USCG, proposed that helicopters be developed for antisubmarine warfare, "not as a killer craft but as the eyes and ears of the convoy escorts." To this end he recommended that helicopters be equipped with radar and dunking sonar.   

1943  The ballpoint pen patented in the United States.   

1943  FDR is recorded as becoming 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime.   

1944  Joe Nuxhall at 15 is recorded as becoming youngest ML baseball player   

1944  French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed   

1945  9th Division supported by the RAAF lands at Brunei Bay, beginning the invasion of British North Borneo.   

1946  Italian Republic established.   

1946  Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20.   

1948  Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell XS-1.   

1950  The West turns down Soviet plans to reunify Germany   

1953  Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer, dies at 73   

1954  In this year, PBS reaches SF KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting   

1954  Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87.   

1955  The inaugural separation of virus into component parts reported   

1956  16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm.   

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