Editing Today In History June 10

<br>HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE<br> <br>1190 - Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowns trying to cross the Saleph River in Cilicia (now in Turkey) while on the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem.<br> <br>1793 - First public zoo, the Jardin des Plantes, opens in Paris.<br> <br>1794 - Power of French revolutionary tribunals is increased, leading to mass executions.<br> <br>1835 - Formation of Australia's first political party, the Australian Patriotic Party.<br> <br>1865 - The first performance of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde takes place in Munich.<br> <br>1838 - At least 28 unarmed Aboriginals are killed at Myall Creek, in central NSW, by a group of stockmen. Seven men are later found guilty and hanged for the massacre.<br> <br>1906 - Death of Richard John Seddon, prime minister of New Zealand (1893-1906).<br> <br>1908 - Australia's federal parliament passes the Invalid and Old-Age Pensions Act, offering means-tested financial support to the elderly and infirm.<br> <br>1917 - Sinn Fein riots break out in Dublin.<br> <br>1933 - Australian Women's Weekly is first published.<br> <br>1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G Wilson and Dr Robert Smith.<br> <br>1940 - Italy enters World War II against France and Britain as Germany's ally.<br> <br>1941 - Recruiting begins for the Torres Strait Defence Force.<br> <br>1943 - Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro patents his ball-point pen.<br> <br>1944 - Nazi troops massacre nearly all the residents of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, in a reprisal against the French resistance movement.<br><br>The last Japanese aircraft is shot down by the RAAF in the New Guinea campaign.<br> <br>1960 - Fokker Friendship crashes at Mackay,  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html Tour Quế Lâm] north Queensland, killing 29.<br> <br>1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, escapes from prison in Tennessee with six others.<br>He is recaptured three days later.<br> <br>1988 - Riot police in South Korea block thousands of students trying to march to North Korea for reunification talks.<br> <br>1989 - China and Taiwan open direct telephone links; 1000 students are arrested after students battle riot police in demand for overthrow of South Korean President Roh Tae-woo.<br> <br>1991 - Iraqi troops begin attacking Shi'ite Muslims in southern Iraq who rebelled after Gulf War.<br> <br>1993 - Scientists announce they have extracted genetic material from the preserved remains of an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the earth.<br> <br>1994 - In one incident of the Rwandan genocide, Hutu militiamen massacre 170 people hiding in a Roman Catholic church.<br> <br>1996 - Australian swimmer Susie Maroney claims record by swimming from Cuba to the US in 37 hours, despite falling short of land.<br> <br>1997 - Top Khmer Rouge lieutenant Son Sen and his family are executed on the orders of leader Pol Pot.<br> <br>1998 - President Nursultan Nazarbayev formally opens Kazakhstan's new capital city Astana.<br> <br>1999 - Yugoslav troops begin pulling out of Kosovo and NATO suspends its punishing 78-day air war.<br> <br>2001 - [http://www.msnbc.com/search/Media%20baron Media baron] Silvio Berlusconi becomes Italy's prime minister for the second time after his party wins 30 per cent of the vote, more than any other party.<br><br>His government is Italy's 59th since World War II.<br> <br>2002 - India reopens its airspace to Pakistani commercial flights, in the first signs that it is ready to ease the standoff over the border shared by the two nations in Kashmir.<br> <br>2003 - Former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite, 64, who was chained to the wall of a Beirut cell for nearly five years, agrees to spend a day in a British prison to raise money for charity.<br> <br>2004 - Ray Charles, who overcame poverty, blindness and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] heroin addiction to become one of America's most beloved entertainers and to be hailed as The Father of Soul, dies aged 73.<br> <br>2005 - Some 117 people, most of them children, drown when a flash flood sweeps through a primary school in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province.<br> <br>2006 - Three Guantanamo Bay detainees hang themselves, the first reported deaths among the hundreds of men held at the base in Cuba on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.<br> <br>2008 - The chief of Saddam Hussein's tribal clan is killed by a bomb glued to the undercarriage of his car.<br> <br>2010 - Pope Benedict XVI strongly defends celibacy for priests as a sign of faith in an increasingly secular world during a rally that draws some 15,000 priests from around the world to Rome.<br> <br>2011 - In a stern rebuke, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warns that the future of the historic NATO military alliance is at risk because of European penny-pinching and distaste for front-line combat and says the US won't carry the alliance as a charity case.<br> <br>2012 - Opposition leader Henri Capriles marches through the Venezuelan capital of Caracas accompanied by hundreds of thousands of supporters as he formally launches his campaign to run against President Hugo Chavez.<br> <br>2013 - Bombs explode across Iraq, killing at least 70 people.<br> <br>2014 - Jihadist followers of the al-Qaeda splinter group ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) seize Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in a spectacular blow to the Shi'ite-led government of Nuri al-Maliki.<br><br>Australia Post announces it will cut 900 jobs over the next year.<br> <br>2016 - Mourners line the streets of Muhammad Ali's hometown of Louisville to farewell the boxing great who died aged 74.<br> <br>2017 - New security measures are announced for Melbourne's CBD to combat the threat of terrorism, including temporary bollards at some of the city's most crowded places.<br> <br>2018 - Perth's "grand old lady" Princess Margaret Hospital closes after 109 years as sick children are moved without a hitch to the newly opened Perth's Children's Hospital.<br> <br>2019 - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam refuses to back down on controversial extradition laws and is accused as a "puppet" for Beijing by the pro-democracy movement.<br> <br>Today's Birthdays:<br> <br>Gustave Courbet, French artist (1819-1877); Nikolaus August Otto, German developer of internal combustion engine (1832-1891); Henry Stanley, English explorer (1840-1904); Lang Hancock, Australian mining magnate (1909-1992); Saul Bellow, US novelist and Nobel laureate (1915-2005); Britain's Prince Philip (1921-); Judy Garland, US singer-actor (1922-1969); Robert Maxwell, Czech-born British media tycoon (1923-1991); Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are (1928-2012); Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician (1929-); David Walker, Australian racing driver (1941-); Tony Mundine, Australian boxer (1951-); John Edwards, American politician and lawyer (1953-); Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actor (1963-); Tony Martin, New Zealand comedian (1964-); Elizabeth Hurley, British actress (1965-); Justin Eveson, Australian Paralympic athlete (1970-); Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host (1971-); Faith Evans, US singer (1973-); Tara Lipinski, US Olympic champion ice skater (1982-); Kate Upton, US model and actress (1992-).<br> <br>Thought for Today:<br> <br>History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past - Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American author (1879-1958).<br>