June 10 is Iced Tea Day
Ballpoint Pen Day
National Black Cow Day (*A root beer float)
Herbs & Spices Day
1768 British customs officials seize John Hancock’s ship,“The Liberty”, on the suspicion that Hancock had illegally unloaded cargo without paying duties a month earlier.
June 10, 1805: First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signed a treaty ending hostilities with the United States. In 1801 Yusuf had demanded a tribute of $225,000 from President Jefferson. When his demands were refused, he declared war on the U.S. The U.S. Navy blockaded Tripoli’s harbors. Threatened with invasion and replacement by his brother, Yusuf signed a peace treaty.
The first class of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland students graduated on this date in 1854.
US Marines landed in Cuba on June 10, 1898, in the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, starting the Spanish-American War.
Anniversary of the establishment of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935 by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
On June 10, 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced Italy’s actions with his “Stab in the Back” speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. His son, FDR, Jr., was graduating with a law degree.
Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. It was signed into law on June 10, 1963 by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.
The Rockefeller Commission issued a single report in 1975, which delineated some CIA abuses including mail opening and surveillance of domestic dissident groups. Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans.
June 10, 1977, the Apple II, one of the first personal computers, went on sale.