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• ... that the British Army changed its plans for operations in Greece during World War II on medical advice from Australian Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley (pictured)?
• ... that the Cathedral Church of the Prince of Peace, the episcopal see of the bishop of the Christ Catholic Church founded by Karl Pruter, is said to be the smallest cathedral in the world?
• ... that the 2006 visit by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to India was officially described as "heralding a new era in Indo-Saudi Arabian relations"?
• ... that the jazz album To the Stars by Chick Corea was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel of the same name?
• ... that the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda?
• ... that the lifting of the Siege of Hull in 1643 was marked by an annual public holiday in Hull, England, until the Restoration?
• ... that employee uniforms at the Topaz Hotel in Washington, D.C. have been described as "punk Buddhist"?
  

• IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner (pictured).
• Following a coal mine collapse in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, 24 miners are rescued with 12 still missing and one reported death.
• Seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
• The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.
• In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open.
• The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time.
• Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz threatens an attack on Iran's nuclear program.
• Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles.

June 10: Portugal Day (Portugal's National Day and the date of Luís de Camões' death (de Camões pictured))

• 1190 – The Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia.
• 1719 – Jacobite risings: British forces defeated an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards at the Battle of Glen Shiel in the Scottish Highlands.
• 1829 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Boat Race held on the Thames in London.
• 1838 – More than twenty-five Australian Aborigines were massacred near Inverell, New South Wales.
• 1935 – American physician Bob Smith had his last alcoholic drink, marking the traditional founding date of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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