Unix Timestamp: 992131200
Sunday, June 10. 2001, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Vietnam said that a Chinese fishing boat had purposefully torn away a seismic research cable laid by Vietnam's Petrovietnam oil company inside Vietnam’s 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone. //en.rian.ru/news/20110610/164551029.html (RIA Novosti) //www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13723443 (BBC)

Fire engulfs Sudan Airways Flight 109 after it lands in Khartoum, killing 44.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologizes to Canada's First Nations for the Canadian residential school system.

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope is launched.

Same-sex marriage in Canada: The Ontario Appeals Court rules that the law restricting marriage to heterosexual couples contravenes the equality provisions in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The court does not permit the province any grace time to bring its law in conformity with the ruling. This appears to mean that Ontario has become the first jurisdiction in North America to recognize same-sex marriages. Toronto announces that its city clerk will begin to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples, and two same-sex couples who filed suit have their marriages retroactively recognized. //www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030611/UGAYYN//?query=gay

Kashmir crisis: Pakistan and India appear to have stepped down their rhetoric over the Kashmir crisis, reducing the threat of nuclear war in the subcontinent slightly.

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

Recent celebrity deaths: Former mob boss John Teflon Don Gotti dies of cancer.

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 (the news does not reach outside Cambodia for 3 days).

An explosion in a São Paulo suburban shopping centre kills 44 and injures more than 100.

Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without Sinn Féin.

A peace convoy carrying Chechen separatist leaders and international diplomats is targeted by a series of remotely controlled land mines 8 are killed.

Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonia, that eventually give name to the Singing Revolution.

Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.

The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.

James Earl Ray escapes from the Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but he will be recaptured on June 13.

In Washington, DC, the Rockefeller Commission issues its report on CIA abuses, recommending a joint congressional oversight committee on intelligence.

The grandson of J. Paul Getty is kidnapped in Rome.

Football: Italy beats Yugoslavia 2–0 in a replay to win the 1968 European Chionship. The original final on June 8 ended 1–1.

Vietnam War ndash Battle of Dong Xoai: About 1,500 Vietcong mount a mortar attack on Dong Xoai, overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound.

Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.

The U.S. Senate votes cloture of the Civil Rights Bill after a 75-day filibuster.

Greece rejects direct talks with Turkey over Cyprus.

Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a 'stop-Goldwater' movement.

In Cologne, Germany, Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in an elementary school with a flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21.

Release of the film "Cleopatra".

Alabama Governor George C. Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama to protest against integration, before stepping aside and allowing African Americans James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll.

In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Ðức commits self-immolation to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Ngo Dinh Diem administration.

Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi (his killer is convicted in 1994).

resident John F. Kennedy delivers his Peace Speech at American University.

President John F. Kennedy delivered a historic Civil Rights Address, in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill, and asks for the kind of equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves.

The University of Central Florida is established by the Florida legislature.

1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden (all other events are held in November in Melbourne, Australia).

Hasan Saka forms the new government of Turkey. (17th government Hasan Saka had served twice as a prime minister)

SAAB produces its first automobile.

Italy is declared a republic.

WWII: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France.

WWII: The Gestapo massacres 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia in retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.

Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2–1 after extra time to win the 1934 World Cup.

Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.

WWI: The Austro-HungariandreadnoughtbattleshipSMS \\'\\'Szent István\\'\\' is sunk by two Italian MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian coast.

WWI: The Austro-Hungarian dreadnought battleship SMS "Szent István" is sunk by two Italian MAS motor torpedo boats off the Dalmatian coast.

Irish author James Joyce meets his future wife Nora Barnacle.

The Mount Tarawera volcano erupts in New Zealand, resulting in the deaths of over 150 people and the destruction of the famous Pink and White Terraces.

The League of Prizren is established.

United States expedition to Korea: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 members of the United States Marine Corps in a naval attack on the Han River forts on Ganghwa Island in Korea.

The first class of the United States Naval Academy graduated at Annapolis, Maryland.

Mexican-American War: The California Republic declares independence from Mexico.

28 Indigenous Australians are killed in the Myall Creek Massacre.

Thomas Carlyle moves to Cheyne Row (Carlyle's House) in London.

The Oxford University Boat Club wins the first inter-university Boat Race,ref name=Pocket On This Day/ rowed at Henley-on-Thames.

The Jardin des Plantes and the Muséum national d\'histoire naturelle are created by the National Convention. The museum opens in Paris the following year and the garden houses one of the first public zoos.

An earthquake-caused landslide dam on the Dadu River gives way, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.

Battle of Glen Shiel: British forces defeat the Jacobites and their Spanish allies.

Salem witch trial investigations and convictions lead to several months of hangings. By the end of September, 14 women including Bridget Bishop and 5 men had been hanged. Another man, Giles Corey was tortured to death in an attempt to coerce a guilty plea from him by crushing him with rocks.

The birth of King James' heir, James Francis Edward Stuart (1688–1766 later to become known as the Old Pretender) increases public disquiet about a Catholic dynasty. The fears are confirmed when the baby is baptised into the Catholic faith.

English Civil War: Oliver Cromwell is confirmed as the Lieutenant-General of the Cavalry.

July or August ndash Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.

August ndash The Siege of Breda begins, and will continue for 10 months.

Treaty of Compiègne, signed between France and the Netherlands

Thirty Years' War ndash Battle of Záblatí: Protestant forces are defeated.

Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr land at Jamestown.

Jamestown: Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council.

Tycho is removed from his job working at Epiphany Chapel in Roskilde.

Barents and Jacob van Heemskerk discover Bear Island.

Manila gains cityhood.

The Kingdom of Livonia is established.

German Protestant troops reinforce Coligny near Limoges.

Revolt of the Comuneros: Blockade of Segovia.

Braganstown massacre, County Louth, Ireland: over 160 killed.

A fire at Chartres Cathedral leads to the start of its rebuilding.

Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.

The Teutonic Knights are founded to defend the Latin states in the Levant.

the Aghlabids sack Reggio Calabria.Giovanni Fiore //books.google.fr/books?id=OEfiHj0umRYCpg=PA536 "Della Calabria illustrata, Volume 3 " Rubbettino Editore srl, 1999 ISBN 978-88-498-0196-5

Silla seizes control of the former Baekje capital of Sabi from the TangProtectorate General to Pacify the East.

A clepsydra is placed in the capital of Japan.ref name=Seiko

ChineseBuddhist pilgrim I-Ching visits the capital of the partly Buddhist kingdom of Srivijaya, Palembang, Indonesia, and stays for 6 months to study Sanskritgrammar. He reports over 1,000 buddhist monks in residence.