Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 10
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June 10: National holiday of Portugal observed: Camões, who wrote the national epic The Lusiads, dies in 1580.
- 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in a river in Anatolia while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- 1829 - Oxford beat Cambridge in the first Boat Race.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Confederates defeated a much larger Union force at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads.
- 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.