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Calendar day; June 10, 2015

Wednesday, the 10th of June, 2015 is the 161th day in 2015 and in the 24th calendar week.

General Events:

Alcoholics Anonymous (Founders Day)
June 10, 2015 in the World

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an international mutual aid fellowship founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio. AA states that its primary purpose is to help alcoholics “to stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety”.

AA’s initial Twelve Traditions were introduced in 1946 to help the fellowship be stable and unified while disengaged from “outside issues” and influences. The Traditions recommend that members and groups remain anonymous in public media, altruistically helping other alcoholics and avoiding affiliations with any other organization. The Traditions also recommend that those representing AA avoid dogma and coercive hierarchies.

Where is the event?
Worldwide

Portugal Day 2015
June 10, 2015 in Portugal

Portugal Day is celebrated on June 10, 2015. The day is Portugal’s national day. Although officially observed only in Portugal, Portuguese citizens and emigrants throughout the world celebrate this holiday. The date commemorates the death of national literary icon Luís de Camões on 10 June 1580.

Where is Portugal Day?
Nationwide Portugal

National Iced Tea Day 2015
June 10, 2015 in the USA

Iced Tea Day is celebrated on June 10, 2015. Iced tea or ice tea is a form of cold tea, usually served in a glass with ice. It may or may not be sweetened. Iced tea is also a popular packaged drink. It can be mixed with flavored syrup, with common flavors including lemon, peach, raspberry, lime, passion fruit, strawberry and cherry. While most iced teas get their flavor from tea leaves, tisanes are also sometimes served cold and referred to as iced tea.

In the United States, iced tea makes up about 85% of all tea consumed and is very popular as an alternative to carbonated soft drinks, especially in the hotter southern states: it is ubiquitous in restaurants, convenience stores, vending machines, and grocery stores. It may be freshly made on premises, or available in bottles and cans, and at self-serve soda fountains. Restaurants typically give the customer the choice of sweetened or unsweetened.

Iced tea’s popularity in the United States has led to an addition to standard cutlery sets: the iced tea spoon is a teaspoon with a long handle, suitable for stirring sugar into glasses. In the summer, iced tea is at its most popular. It is a common stereotype of the Southeastern United States due to the popularity of sweet iced tea in that region that unsweetened iced tea is not available and/or frowned upon. It is true that often the term “iced tea” is assumed to mean sweetened iced tea by default in that region.

Where is the event?
Nationwide USA

National Herbs and Spices Day
June 10, 2015 in the USA

National Herbs and Spices Day, an “unofficial” National holiday is celebrated annually on June 10.

It is the season for fresh herbs and spices and they are an essential part of flavorful cooking as well as fun and easy to grow.

Gardening your own herbs can be a form of relaxing therapy.

Herbs and spices have been used for many hundreds of years and besides making our food delicious, each has its own specific health benefits.

Where is the event?
Nationwide USA

Historical Events on 10th June:

1190 – Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (now called the Göksu in modern Turkey) while leading an army to Jerusalem

1605 – False Dimitri I, an impostor, crowned Russian tsar (rules 1605-1606)

1648 – Moscow’s people uprise against regent Boris Morozov

1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China

1794 – France revolutionary regime begins trials

1801 – Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute

1838 – Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.

1847 – Chicago Tribune begins publishing

1854 – Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved

1882 – Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans

1898 – US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War

1900 – In China, a relief column of some 2000 men set out from Tientsin to relieve foreigners trapped in Peking.

1903 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, a military coup d’etat- led by the Queen’s brother-in-law and other offices – kills King Alexander I of Serbia, Queen Draga, and many officers

1907 – France and Japan sign an agreement to maintain the independence and integrity of China, equality for all nations in trading with China, and the status quo in the Far East

1908 – The Australian Parliament passes the Invalid and Old Age Pensions Act providing for pensions for British subjects (excluding aborigines) at age 65

1916 – Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks

1917 – 60,000 people of Petrograd Russia welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years) returning after February Russian Revolution

1925 – Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena

1932 – 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass

1935 – Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous

1944 – World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops

1946 – Italian Republic established

1955 – 1st separation of virus into component parts reported

1963 – US President JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women

1967 – Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end “6-Day War” with UN help

1975 – Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans

1986 – In South Africa, the three-year-old ‘State of Emergency’ is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it

1994 – Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel

2002 – The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom