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What happened in India today | Today’s Historical Events on June 10.
1854, 10th June: The very first batch of students of the United States Naval Academy graduated.
1924, 10th June: Assassination of Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti.
1940, 10th June: World War II – Norway surrendered to Germany.
1944, 10th June: World War II – Six hundred forty-two men, women, and children massacred at Oradour-Sur-Glane, France.
1966, 10th June: The famous airplanes, MIG, were designed for the first time in India at Ozar Airport of Nashik.
1972, 10th June: Elvis Presley recorded his live album at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1977, 10th June: One of the first home computers, Apple II was made available in the market for sale.
1999, 10th June: Ustad Zakir Hussain was selected for the prestigious National Heritage Award in the United States.
2003, 10th June: Spirit, one of the two rovers of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Mission was launched.
On this Day Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on June 10.
1213: Fakhr al-Din Ibrahim Iraqi, Persian Sufi master, poet, and writer.
1938: Rahul Bajaj, an Indian billionaire businessman, and philanthropist.
1955: Prakash Padukone, a former Indian badminton player.
1960: Nandamuri Balakrishna, an Indian film actor and politician.
1972: Sundar Pichai, an Indian-American business executive. He is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google.
1977: Mika Singh, an Indian singer, and performer.
On this Day Death Anniversaries of famous people on June 10.
1836: André-Marie Ampère, a French physicist and mathematician.
1976: Adolph Zukor, one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures.
2006: Gulabdas Broker, a Gujarati language author from India.
What happened in India on 10 June
10-June-1246
Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thorwn off the throne.
10-June-1832
Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born.
10-June-1833
Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born.
10-June-1888
Balraj Bhalla, revolutionary, was born.
10-June-1890
Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday.
10-June-1891
Gandhiji called to the Bar.
10-June-1900
Jayantnath Chaudhary, former General of Indian Army General, was born.
10-June-1908
Mary Clubwala Jadhav, politician and social worker, was born.
10-June-1928
Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai.
10-June-1942
77 Mountain Brigade was raised at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh.
10-June-1946
Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a “victory of truth over false-hood”.
10-June-1955
Prakash Padukone, internationally famous Badminton player, was born.
10-June-1957
Bhai Vir Singh, great Punjabi poet, novelist, social reformer, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, died.
10-June-1959
Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, social worker, died near Hardwar.
10-June-1966
MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
10-June-1984
Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit.
10-June-1987
Jeevan, famous Hindi film actor, died.
10-June-1997
Three Indians – Kumaramangalam Birla, Ratan Tata and Dhirubhai Ambani – figure in the list of Asia’s top 100 super rich.
10-June-1997
18 persons were killed and 10 wounded by suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura militants at Thalchhara near Agartala.