NOW & THEN
10 JUNE
1692: The first of the 14 Salem witches was hanged. Bridget Bishop was one of the 150 respectable citizens accused of witchcraft by an hysterical band of young girls who, for nearly 20 months, mesmerised a Puritan community in Massachusetts.
1719: The Battle of Glenshiel defeat of Scottish Jacobite and Spanish troops by Hanoverian forces.
1768: Forth and Clyde Canal construction started.
1794: Power of French revolutionary tribunals was increased, leading to mass executions.
1829: The first Oxford and Cambridge University boat race took place. Oxford triumphed.
1854: Queen Victoria opened Crystal Palace on its new site at Sydenham, south London.
1864: Over-arm bowling was legalised for cricket matches.
1909: SOS signal first used in an emergency. The SOS call was recognised by two steamers which went to the rescue of the Cunard liner SS Slavonia, wrecked off the Azores.
1917: Sinn Fein riots broke out in Dublin.
1943: Ballpoint pens, devised by Hungarian Laszlo Biro, were patented in the United States.
1967: Israel agreed to United Nations ceasefire with Egypt, with Israel holding conquered territory four times its own size.
1971: United States lifted 21-year-old embargo on trade with China.
1978: Larry Holmes won the world heavyweight boxing title in Las Vegas, defeating Ken Norton on points.
1983: Margaret Thatcher won her second term as prime minister.
1988: Britain’s last lightship was towed from its position northwest of Guernsey to Harwich, ending an era of 157 years for such vessels, which had been replaced by technology.
1989: Police arrested 1,000 people in Seoul, Korea, as radical students fought with riot police in demand for overthrow of President Roh Tae-woo.
1990: BA pilot Captain Timothy Lancaster was sucked halfway out of his BAC 1-11 cockpit after the windscreen blew out at 23,000 feet. His legs were held by crew until the plane landed.
1992: The IRA continued its renewed terror campaign in London with a bomb in Victoria Street, near the House of Commons. No-one was hurt.
1996: Peace talks began in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Fein.
1997: Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot ordered the killing of his defence chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen’s family members.
1999: Nato suspended its air strikes after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
2003: The Spirit Rover was launched, beginning Nasa’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2014: More than 4,000 people took part in a midnight march in Glasgow to “reclaim their streets” after a series of rapes in the city.
2014: Sunni Islamist militants seized control of Iraq’s mainly Kurdish second city, Mosul after four days of fighting.
BIRTHDAYS
Arthur Campbell Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice-general, 2005-2012, 77; Elizabeth Hurley, actress, 54; Sir Simon Jenkins, columnist, editor of the Times 1990-2, 76; Bill Longmuir, Scottish golfer, 66; Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actress, 56; Mark-anthony Turnage CBE, British composer, 59; Helen Young, weather forecaster, 50; Carlo Ancelotti, Italian football manager, 60
ANNIVERSARIES
Births: 1688 James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender; 1901 Frederick Loewe, composer of My Fair Lady; 1911 Sir Terence Rattigan, playwright; 1915 Saul Bellow, novelist; 1922 Judy Garland, US actress and singer; 1926 Lionel Jeffries, actor, writer and film director; 1928 Maurice Sendak, US author and book illustrator.
Deaths: 1560 Marie of Guise, Queen Regent of Scotland; 1727 King George I; 1934 Frederick Delius, composer; 1946 Jack Johnson, world heavyweight boxing champion; 1967 Spencer Tracey, actor; 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, film director; 1993 Les Dawson, comedian; 2004 Ray Charles, singer; 2004 Graeme Kelling, rock guitarist (Deacon Blue)