A bit of June 10th history…
1190 - Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (modern Turkey) leading an army to Jerusalem
1692 - 1st victim of the Salem witch trials, Bridget Bishop, is hanged for witchcraft in the colony of Massachusetts (pictured)
1845 - Andrew Jackson’s African Gray Parrot “Poll” is removed from his funeral for swearing “so loud and long as to disturb the people”
1955 - 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1984 - US missile shoots down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission
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