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

1957  Harold MacMillan is recorded as becoming British PM   

1957  John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada with the biggest majority to date.   

1961  Suzanne Clayton's birthday June 10th 1961.   

1963  Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care), dies of heart attack at 74   

1964  Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked.   

1964  Louis Gruenberg, composer, dies at 79   

1965  A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2370 van Altena   

1966  Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in the UK.   

1966  Janis Joplins inaugural live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)   

1967  Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help.   

1967  Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76.   

1968  Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65   

1969  Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64   

1971  11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill   

1971  Us lift 21 year trade embargo on China.   

1971  Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61.   

1973  NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit   

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.   

1975  Rockefeller panel reports on 300000 illegal CIA files on Americans.   

1976  67000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome.   

1976  Adolph Zukor, Hungarian/US fur trader/movie producer, dies at 103.   

1977  Apple Computer ships its inaugural Apple II.   

1977  James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison   

1979  inaugural ever European Assembly elections.   

1979  Pope John Paul II visits Poland.   

1980  Denys Morkel, S Afr cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32), dies.   

1981  IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail.   

1981  Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68   

1982  Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut   

1982  Addie "Micki" Harris, US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42   

1984  In this year, Ivan Lendl claims the French Open, his inaugural grand slam title.   

1984  US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for inaugural time   

1985  Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife.   

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