Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 10

June 10: National holiday of Portugal observed: Camões (pictured), who wrote the national epic The Lusiads, died 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.

Recent days: June 9 – June 8 – June 7

More anniversaries:

• May 31
• June 1
• June 2