Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 10
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June 10: National Day/Deathday of the poet Camões (pictured) in Portugal.
- 1190 - Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River in Anatolia while on the Third Crusade.
- 1719 - Jacobite risings: British forces defeated an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards in the Battle of Glen Shiel.
- 1805 - The United States signed a treaty with Yussif Karamanli, the Pasha of Tripoli, ending the First Barbary War and agreeing to pay Yusuf $US 60,000 in exchange for the American prisoners of war.
- 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio. This is the traditional date of the first day of sobriety of Dr. Bob Smith, AA's cofounder.