Historical Events for 10th June 2024

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1942 - Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Czech Republic) which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”; over 170 adult men were executed by firing squad on site, women and children were sent to concentration camp gas chambers, and the village was burned down and plowed under
1954 - KQED TV channel 9 in San Francisco, California (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 - John Diefenbaker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
1966 - The Beatles release single "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" in UK; "Rain" featured experimental studio tricks of slowed down bass and drums tracks, and backwards vocals in the fade out
1967 - 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California
1967 - American pole vaulter Bob Seagren sets a world record mark of 17'7" in San Diego, California
1974 - "Feel Like Makin' Love" single released by Roberta Flack (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)
1991 - David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" final episode airs on ABC-TV
2013 - Superman film "Man of Steel" directed by Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill and Amy Adams premieres in New York City
2019 - New DNA research on grapes shows one French wine Savagnin Blanc has been grown for 900 years in Jura published in "Nature Plants"

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