Portal:China/Anniversaries/June/June 10

Events

• 1786 – A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.

Births

• 1904 – Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (d. 1955)
• 1927 – Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician, 29th Vice Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (d. 2013)

Deaths

• 223 – Liu Bei, Chinese emperor (b. 161)
• 1992 – Hachidai Nakamura, Chinese-Japanese pianist and composer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia (b. 1916)