📜 This Day in History

June 10

• 731Tatwine was consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1692Bridget Bishop became the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
• 1861American Civil War: The Confederate Army only suffered eight casualties in its victory at the Battle of Big Bethel in York County, Virginia.
• 1925The United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, held its inaugural service at the Mutual Street Arena in Toronto.
• 1987Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea.
• 2024A plane crash in Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima.

Born on this day

• 1915Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
• 1921Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of the United Kingdom, Prince of Greece and Denmark, Consort of Queen Elizabeth II (died 2021)
• 1922Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969)
• 1959Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager