What do cabbage patch dolls, your own self and your favorite bottle of beer have in common? Hmm…if you said “They all have a born-on date!” then your own self would also be correct! If you were born on June 10th of any year then follow along as we look at who shares your birthday as well as historical events and other facts specific to your own personal born on date!
General information about June 10th birthdays:
If you were born on June 10th of any standard year then you were born on the 161st day of the calendar year. If you happen to have been born during a leap year then you were born on the 162nd day of that calendar year. If you are a U.S. citizen and your June 10th birthday occurred in 1993 or any year earlier, then you are legally able to obtain a valid state drivers license once you have met all educational requirements to do so. Any person born on June 10th of 1991 or any year earlier is legally able to purchase cigarettes or smoke in public and any person born on June 10th of 1988 or any year earlier is legally able to purchase or consume alcoholic beverages while living or traveling in the U.S.
If your birthday falls on June 10th of 1959 or any year earlier, then it means you have been conquering and exploring this world for a half a century or longer and are now allowed to start asking in the U.S. about senior discounts at a multitude of commercial businesses, events and services! Different companies set the eligibility age higher if their policy calls for it but age 50 is the lowest beginning age of eligibility in the U.S. A great site to check out senior discount deals at is listed below.
Astrological data for June 10th birthdays:
In accordance with Western Astrology, those born on June 10th are born under Gemini, the sign of the Twins which is of Air Element, of Mutable Quality and ruled planetarily by Mercury. Gemini folks are often described as very clever, dual-minded and highly independent though they do enjoy social stimulation. Most Gemini souls love to talk and all the newest technology that goes along with doing so and can transport all the information from various explorations that their intense minds love to follow, discuss and research. Known for changing their minds at the drop in of a notion, Gemini personalities can be both exciting and frustrating to interact with, but never at all dull! If you wish to gain a greater understanding of Western Astrology (or Chinese Astrology dependent upon your birth year) visit this informative link courtesy of Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_sign
Find your Gemini glyph at the bottom of the page when you are done to check out your Gemini specific traits. Famous fellow Geminis include Clint Eastwood, Dean Martin, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Prince Rainier III, former First Lady Barbara Bush, President John F. Kennedy, former King of Greece Constantine II and Donald Trump. If you are interested in current daily/weekly forecasts for the Gemini sign stop by the link below for each day of your astrological year!
http://www.bridgettwalther.com/daily.asp?sign=Gemini
Birthstone/Birth Flower specifics for June 10th birthdays:
The birthstone most commonly associated with your June 10th birthday is the pearl. Pearls are the only organic birthstone as they are formed in oysters and mollusks but are known to be quite numerous in varieties and types. Good health is often the associated meaning of the June 10th birthstone of the pearl. Alexandrite is a lesser common but associated birthstone as well for those born on June 10th of any year.
The beautiful rose belongs to those born on this date as their birth flower. Each various color was often ascribed a hidden meaning/message from the Victorian Era on, meant to be communicated from the sender to the lucky receiver of a bouquet of these most popular flower. It is a universally accepted symbol of natural beauty especially in its red varieties signaling love between two people-if you would like to know more about either your June 10th birthstones or birth flower the following link shares quite a bit of usable information to search through.
http://www.birthstones.org.uk/index.htm
Important historical events which have occurred on June 10th:
1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1539 – Council of Trent: Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1540 – Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister
1610 – 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1752 – Ben Franklin’s kite is struck by lightning
1760 – NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1793 – 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1793 – Washington replaced Philadelphia as US capital
1801 – Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1805 – First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States.
1809 – 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1834 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
1847 – Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1848 – 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1850 – Millard Fillmore sworn-in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
1854 – Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved
1854 – The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1865 – Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” 1st performance Munich Germany
1908 – 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1911 – Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 – Girl Scouts founded
1921 – Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
1932 – 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1935 – Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1940 – French government moves to Bordeaux
1940 – German “Dutch Q-ship Atlantis” sinks Norwegian tanker
1940 – Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1940 – Norway surrenders to nazis
1940 – World War II: Canada declares war on Italy.
1943 – FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
1943 – FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
1945 – US destroyer William D Porter (“Willie Dee”) sunk by kamikaze
1946 – Italian Republic established
1950 – 50th US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA
1955 – 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1963 – JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women
1964 – Rolling Stones record their 12×5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
1964 – Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1965 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Xoai begins.
1966 – Beatles “Paperback Writer” is released in UK
1966 – Beatles record “Rain,” 1st to use reverse tapes
1966 – Janis Joplin’s 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
1966 – Mamas & Papas win gold record for “Monday, Monday”
1968 – AL games at Balt & Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy
1972 – Elvis Presley records a live album at NY’s Madison Square Garden
1975 – Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1977 – Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1977 – James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King’s killer) escapes from prison
1979 – Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1985 – Coca Cola announces they’d bring back their 99-year-old formula
1985 – French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
1990 – “Meet Me in St Louis” closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 perfs
1990 – 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Jack Nicklaus
1990 – Burger King begins using Newman’s Own Salad Dressing
1991 – Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
1991 – South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
1996 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM
1996 – Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
1996 – Stanley Cup: Colo Avalanche sweep Florida Panthers in 4 games
1996 – Colo Avalanche sweeps Fla Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods
1997 – Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen’s family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
1999 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon’s first female saint Saint Rafqa
2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.
Famous passings on June 10th:
323 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian warlord (b. 356 BC)
1190 – Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1122)
1552 – Alexander Barclay, English poet
1899 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
1901 – Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
1903 – Alexander I, King of Serbia is assassinated
1903 – Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
1967 – Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76
1967 – Spencer Tracy, US actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67
1969 – Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game), dies at 64
1971 – Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
1985 – Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball), dies at 68
1985 – George Chandler, actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 87
1988 – Louis L’Amour, western writer (Bowdrie), dies at 80 of cancer
1989 – Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68
1991 – Vercors, [Jean Bruller], French writer (Silence of Mer), dies
1993 – Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himself at 77
1994 – Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a ’38 Dodge), dies at 66
1994 – Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64
1996 – Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89
1998 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2000 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
2001 – Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
2002 – John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
2003 – Donald Regan, Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
2003 – Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
2004 – Ray Charles, Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as “What’d I Say” and ballads like “Georgia on My Mind” dies aged 73
2008 – Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet writer (b. 1928)
Famous Births on June 10th:
1637 – Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder (Chicago)
1657 – James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
1688 – James III Edward, Old Pretender, recognized as King of Britain by Pope
1819 – J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
1888 – Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
1890 – Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
1895 – Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
1898 – Hattie McDaniel, Wichita, 1st Black to win Oscar (Gone With The Wind)
1903 – Theo Lingen, German director/actor (M, Charm of La Boheme) [or Jun 19]
1907 – Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1912 – Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1921 – Philip Mountbatten, Greece, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II
1932 – George Burns, British TV host
1933 – F Lee Bailey, Waltham Mass, attorney (Sam Shepard case, OJ case)
1943 – Jeff Greenfield, NYC, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline)
1953 – John Edwards, American politician and lawyer
1959 – Timothy Van Patten, Bkln NY, actor (White Shadow, Master)
1959 – Eliot Spitzer, American politician
1961 – Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1961 – Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
1961 – Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
1962 – Brent Sutter, Viking, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1962 – Duane Sutter, NHL player (NY Islander)
1962 – Gina Gershon, American actress
1962 – Akie Abe, current First Lady of Japan
1963 – Elisabeth Shue, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting)
1965 – Elizabeth Hurley, Basingstroke England, actress (Christabel)
1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canada, super model/actress (Catwalk, Unzipped)
1965 – Vincent Perez, actor (The Crow-City of Angels)
1967 – Human Beatbox, [Darren Robinson], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1969 – Kate Snow, American TV journalist
1971 – DeWayne Dotson, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 – Jeff Rodgers, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 – Bobby Jindal, American politician; Louisiana Congressman, Governor
1972 – Pat Johnson, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1972 – Steven Fischer, American film producer and director
1973 – Faith Evans, American singer
1973 – Pokey Reese, American baseball player
1977 – Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
1978 – Shane West, American actor
1981 – Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, of Jordan
1981 – Jonathan Bennett, actor (Mean Girls)
1982 – Tara Lipinski, Philadelphia Pa, figure skater (1997 World Champ)
1982 – Princess Madeleine of Sweden
1983 – Leelee Sobieski, American actress
Holidays/Observances for June 10th birthdays:
Catholics around the globe celebrate annually in June during the month long observance honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus. June 10th also is the Catholic feast day of St. Anianus, bishop of Chartres. The fourth day of the Roman Empirical initiated pagan festival of Vestalia is June 10th. For those born on this date living in Portugal it is Portugal Day annually on June 10th.
Hope this look at what makes your birthday of June 10th special and historically unique has been informative-perhaps even that cabbage patch doll stored in a box in your attic from two decades(or three) ago would enjoy checking their “born on” date out too! Feel free to click on any of the resource links for additional specifics and extra info about any of the categories we looked into above that are relative to your June 10th celebration of birth. Oh…and by the way-have a happy birthday!
Sources:
http://www.wikipedia.org/
http://www.historyorb.com/birthdays/june/6
http://www.catholic.org/saints/f_day/jun.php
http://www.history.com/
http://www.timeanddate.com/
