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What happened on June 10 in American history
June 10 is the 161st day of the year (the 162nd in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 10 stories from June 10 spanning 1692 to 2009. Among them: in 1692, Bridget Bishop is hanged at Salem; the first life taken in the witchcraft trials; and in 1805, Karamanli signs; four years of war with the United States ends in Tripoli.
1692
Bridget Bishop is hanged at Salem; the first life taken in the witchcraft trials
The English-born woman, convicted of bewitching five young women, goes to the gallows eight days after the jury returned its verdict.
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Karamanli signs; four years of war with the United States ends in Tripoli
The U.S. pays $60,000 for its prisoners, a sum Jefferson's men are careful to call ransom, not tribute.
1854Member story · 1776 Club
Annapolis graduates its first class, nine years after the Academy opened its doors
The men leave as passed midshipmen, not commissioned officers, a rank that reflects how unsettled the Navy's grand experiment still remains.
1861Member story · 1776 Club
Peirce's column shoots itself in the dark, then breaks against Magruder's line at Big Bethel
Seventy-six Union casualties to eight Confederate; Lt. John T. Greble, the first regular Army officer killed, falls in the repulse.
1864Member story · 1776 Club
Forrest's 3,500 men rout Sturgis and 8,100 at Brice's Cross Roads; 16 Union guns taken
A Federal column sent into Mississippi to stop Forrest comes apart: 2,612 Union casualties, more than 1,600 prisoners, and Sherman's railroad still under threat.
1871Member story · 1776 Club
Rodgers storms the Ganghwa forts; Korea still refuses to talk
Tilton's Marines and 500 sailors take the citadel at Gwangseong in fifteen minutes, leaving 243 Koreans dead and three Americans with them, and Seoul sends no negotiator.
1935
Dr. Bob Smith takes his last drink, then walks into surgery
The Akron surgeon, sober after hours of talk with New York businessman Bill Wilson, steps into the operating room following a final relapse at an Atlantic City convention.
1964
Senate breaks the longest filibuster in its history; civil rights vote is cleared
Robert Byrd's 14-hour, 13-minute speech closes 72 days of Southern obstruction, and cloture passes 71 to 29.
1991Member story · 1776 Club
Phillip Garrido, out on parole, tases an 11-year-old at her bus stop and drives away with her
Stepfather Carl Probyn watches from his driveway in Meyers, California, and cannot catch the car. Garrido served time for kidnapping and rape in 1976.
2009Member story · 1776 Club
Officer opens the door; von Brunn raises a rifle and shoots him dead
Stephen Tyrone Johns, 29, is killed at the Holocaust Museum entrance; two officers return fire, wound the 88-year-old gunman, and end the attack inside two minutes.
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