Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 10

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 * 731 - Tatwine was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury
 * 1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick Barbarossa (pictured), Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
 * 1329 – Byzantine–Ottoman wars: The heavily armed Byzantine army was defeated by Ottoman forces at the Battle of Pelekanon.
 * 1692 – Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
 * 1782 – King Rama I moved into the Grand Palace in Bangkok, which has remained the royal residence of Siam and Thailand since then.
 * 1838 – At least 28 unarmed Indigenous Australians were massacred at Myall Creek, New South Wales.
 * 1878 – The League of Prizren was officially founded to "struggle in arms to defend the wholeness of the territories of Albania".
 * 1886 – Mount Tarawera, a volcano in New Zealand's North Island, erupted, killing around 120 people and creating the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley.
 * 1916 – Hussein bin Ali, King of Hejaz, orchestrated a revolt against the Ottoman Empire with the aim of creating a single unified and independent Arab state.
 * 1918 – World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast, killing 89 of the crew.
 * 1925 – The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, held its inaugural service at the Mutual Street Arena in Toronto.
 * 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.
 * 1968 – The Royal New Zealand Navy adopted a unique white ensign, to distinguish its vessels from those of the Royal Navy.
 * 1991 – Eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she remained a captive until 2009.
 * 2008 – War in Afghanistan: A U.S. airstrike resulted in the reported deaths of eleven paramilitary members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps and eight Taliban fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas.
 * 2008 – Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashed on landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 of the 214 occupants on board.
 * Born/died this day: | Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani |b|940| Cheng Rui |d|903| Isabella Andreini |d|1604| Princess Caroline of Great Britain |b|1713| Gustave Courbet |b|1819| Theodor Philipsen |b|1840| Cora Agnes Benneson |b|1851| Robert Brown |d|1858| Ninian Comper |b|1864| Margarito Bautista |b|1878|Sessue Hayakawa |b|1886| Edward Everett Hale |d|1909| Aud Blegen Svindland |b|1928| João Gilberto |b|1931| Dan Fouts |b|1951| Margaret Abbott |d|1955| Wang Yuegu |b|1980| Henryk Stażewski|d|1988| Alexandra Stan |b|1989| Christina Grimmie |d|2016|