June 10: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1985  Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula so much for the "New Coke"   

1985  The Israeli army ends its 1099 day occupation of Lebanon   

1985  Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68.   

1987  Discovery's SRBs and External Tank are mated.   

1987  Elizabeth Hartman, actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue), dies at 45.   

1988  Greatest number of participants (31678) on a bicycle tour (London).   

1988  Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer.   

1989  Major French Open upset, as Spain's Arantxa Sanchez, 17 beats heavily favored Steffi Graf, also inaugural Spaniard to win a grand slam title   

1989  Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68.   

1990  Andres Gomez beats Andre Agassi for French Open title.   

1990  Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing   

1990  Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity   

1991  Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops.   

1991  Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies   

1992  Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure   

1993  Alexis Smith, actress (Constant Nymph), dies of cancer at 72   

1994  Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge), dies at 66.   

1995  Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85   

1996  Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89.   

2006  President Mahmoud Abbas sets july 26 as the date for a national referendum in the Palestinian National Authority.   

2007  In this year, Lewis Hamilton claims the Canadian Grand Prix becoming the inaugural driver of mixed racial origin to win a Formula One race   

2007  The 61st Tony Awards, honoring Broadway theatres' best shows, took place at Radio City Music Hall   

2007  The inaugural round of a legislative election was held in France, and a general election was held in Belgium.   

2012  A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, results in the deaths of five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister   

2013  70 people are killed as a series of bombs explode across Iraq.   

2017  In this year, 149th Belmont Stakes: Jose Ortiz aboard Tapwrit claims in 2:30.02.   

2017  Samuel V. Wilson, American ex-director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former Army lieutenant general, dies of lung cancer at 93.   

2017  The 2017 World Expo is opened in Astana, Kazakhstan   

2018  117th Men's French Open: Rafael Nadal beats Dominic Thiem of Austria 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 for his record 11th French title (17th Grand Slam victory)   

2018  Actor Vince Vaughn arrested for drunk driving and resisting arrest near Los Angeles   

2020  Statues of Confederate figures and explorers become focus of #BlackLivesMatter protests, with many removed including of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and of Christopher Columbus in Richmond.   

2021  Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of drug lord El Chapo , pleads guilty to helping run his criminal operations and aiding his 2015 prison escape.   

2021  An annular solar eclipse is visible from Canada, Greenland, the North Pole, and the Russian Far East.   

2024  A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, results in the deaths of nine people, including Vice President of Malawi Saulos Chilima.   

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