This Day in History on 10 June
The historical events hold a lot of value for aspirants who are sitting for UPSC competitive exams including the IAS Exam.
On this page, we will list all historical events that occurred on 10 June. The students can refer to them while preparing for all competitive exams and banking exams.
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Important Events
1246: Allauddin Masood Shah, Sultan of Dehli, was thrown off the throne.
1830: Sunday introduced as a weekly holiday.
1854: The very first batch of students of the United States Naval Academy graduated.
1891: Gandhiji called to the Bar.
1924: Assassination of Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti.
1940: World War II – Norway surrendered to Germany.
1942: 77 Mountain Brigade was raised at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh.
1944: World War II – Six hundred forty-two men, women, and children massacred at Oradour-Sur-Glane, France.
1946: Gandhiji refused to enthuse over allied victory as it was not a “”victory of truth over false-hoo
1966: The famous airplanes, MIG, were designed for the first time in India at Ozar Airport of Nashik.
1972: Elvis Presley recorded his live album at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1977: One of the first home computers, Apple II was made available in the market for sale.
1984: Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit.
1997: Three Indians – Kumaramangalam Birla, Ratan Tata and Dhirubhai Ambani – figure in the list of Asia’s top 100 super rich.
1997: 18 persons were killed and 10 wounded by suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura militants at Thalchhara near Agartala.
1999: Ustad Zakir Hussain was selected for the prestigious National Heritage Award in the United States.
2003: Spirit, one of the two rovers of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Mission was launched.
Birthday / Anniversary
1213: Fakhr al-Din Ibrahim Iraqi, Persian Sufi master, poet, and writer.
1832: Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India), was born.
1833: Azad Muhammad Jussain, the Urdu poet, and educationalist was born.
1888: Balraj Bhalla, revolutionary, was born.
1900: Jayantnath Chaudhary, the former General of Indian Army General, was born.
1908: Mary Clubwala Jadhav, the politician and social worker, was born.
1928: Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai.
1938: Rahul Bajaj, an Indian billionaire businessman, and philanthropist.
1938: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, Indian mathematician and academic
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.
Death / Death Anniversary
1836: André-Marie Ampère, a French physicist and mathematician.
1957: Bhai Vir Singh, great Punjabi poet, novelist, social reformer, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, died.
1959: Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, the social worker, died near Hardwar.
1966: MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
1976: Adolph Zukor, one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures.
1987: Jeevan, the famous Hindi film actor, died.
2006: Gulabdas Broker, a Gujarati language author from India.