June 10: Portugal Day (Portugal's National Day and the date of Luís de Camões' death)
John Diefenbaker
* 1190 – The Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
* 1805 – The United States signed a treaty with Yusuf Karamanli, the Pasha of Tripoli, ending the First Barbary War and agreeing to pay him US$60,000 in exchange for American prisoners of war.
* 1918 – World War I: Italian torpedo boats sank the Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István off the Dalmatian coast.
* 1957 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party led by John Diefenbaker (pictured) won a plurality of the seats in the Canadian House of Commons, bringing an end to 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
* 1961 – The last service trains ran on the Hawkhurst Branch Line in Kent, England.
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