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Le 10 juin est le 161 e jour, moins souvent le 162 e, de l'année du calendrier grégorien ; il en reste ensuite 204. Son équivalent était généralement le 22 prairial du calendrier républicain ou révolutionnaire français, officiellement dénommé jour de la camomille (romaine).
June —abbreviated Jun or Jun. —is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars —the latter the most widely used calendar in the world. June is 30 days long, and comes after May and before July. June marks the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and contains the summer solstice, the day with the most daylight hours.
On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent ...
Le 10 juin 1868, le prince de Serbie, Michel III Obrénovic est assassiné. Un an plus tôt, il avait obtenu le départ de la dernière garnison turque de Serbie et fait de Belgrade la capitale de la principauté. Les Serbes obtiendront leur indépendance pleine et entière en 1878 avec le traité de Berlin.
Discover what happened on June 10 with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
1886 – The Munt Tarawera volcanae in New Zealand erupts, killin 153 fowk. 1907 – Five vehicles stairt the langest-ever car race, frae Beijing tae Paris. 1925 – The Unitit Kirk o Canadae is foondit. 1934 – Hosts Italy win the 1934 FIFA Warld Cup, defeatin Czechoslovakie in the feenal.
The Appeal of 18 June (French: L'Appel du 18 juin) was the first speech made by Charles de Gaulle after his arrival in London in 1940 following the Battle of France. Broadcast to France by the radio services of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), it is often considered to have marked the beginning of the French Resistance in World War II .
