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Today in History: June 10
1190 Frederick Barbarossa drowns in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade.

1692 Bridget Bishop is hanged in Salem, Mass., for witchcraft.

1776 The Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Declaration of Independence.

1801 Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute.

1854 The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation.

1898 U.S. Marines land in Cuba.

1925 Tennessee adopts a new biology text book denying the theory of evolution.

1940 The Norwegian army capitulates to the Germans.

1942 Germany razes the town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and kills more than 1,300 citizens in retribution of the murder of Reinhard Heydrich.

1944 The U.S. VII and V corps, advancing from Normandy's beaches, link up and begin moving inland.

1948 The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.

1963 Buddhist monk Ngo Quang Duc dies by self immolation in Saigon to protest persecution by the Diem government.

1970 A 15-man group of special forces troops begin training for Operation Kingpin, a POW rescue mission in North Vietnam.

1985 The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation.

1999 Serb forces begin their withdrawal from Kosovo after signing an agreement with the NATO powers.

2007 'The Sopranos' ends, not with a bang
HBO's crime-family drama wraps up its sixth and final season with the closing scene abruptly cutting to black. The ending will leave many of the show's 12 million viewers puzzled as to whether lead character Tony Soprano is dead or alive—or wondering if their cable got whacked.

2021 Zahid Quraish confirmed as America's first Muslim federal judge for the District of New Jersey by the US Senate

Born on June 10
1922 Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm), American actress and singer (The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade).

1933 F. Lee Bailey, American defense attorney.

JOKE of the Gay
Many years ago a man was travelling through the mountains of Switzerland. Nightfall was rapidly approaching and he had nowhere to sleep.

He went up to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the night. The farmer told him that he could sleep in the barn.
As the story goes, the farmer's daughter asked her father, "Who is that man going into the barn?" "That fellow is travelling through," said the farmer. "Needs a place to stay for the night, so, I told him he could sleep in the barn."
The daughter said, "Perhaps he is hungry." So she prepared him a plate of food for him and then took it out to the barn. About an hour later, the daughter returned. Her clothing dishevelled and straw in her hair.
Straight up to bed she went. The farmer's wife was very observant. She then suggested that perhaps the man was thirsty. So she fetched a bottle of wine, took it out to the barn, and she too did not return for an hour. Her clothing was askew, her blouse buttoned incorrectly. She also headed straight to bed.
The next morning at sunrise the man in the barn got up and continued on his journey, waving to the farmer as he left. When the daughter awoke and learned that the visitor was gone, she broke into tears. "How could he leave without even saying goodbye," she cried. "We made such passionate love last night!"
"What?" shouted the father as he angrily ran out of the house looking for the man, who by now was halfway up the mountain. The farmer screamed up at him, "I'm going to get you! You had sex with my daughter!" The man looked back down from the mountainside, cupped his hand next to his mouth, and yelled out... "LAIDTHEOLADEETOO!"