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  June 10: Portugal Day (Portugal's National Day and the Deathday of Luís 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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