^B{^#!16!10 June^N! Feast day of St Ithamar, St Bogumilus, St Landericus of Paris, and St Getulius and his Companions.
^B{1829^B} The Oxford team won the first-ever Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. ^B{1891^B} L Starr Jameson became administrator of the South Africa Company's territories. ^B{1893^B} Alarmed at Belgian advances in the Congo, France sent an occupying force to forestall further annexations. 1899^B} US Congress appointed a canal commission to report on routes through Panama. ^B{1942^B} The Czech village of Lidice was destroyed and every man in it killed in reprisal for the assassination of Nazi leader Richard Heydrich. ^B{1943^B} The ball-point pen was patented in the US.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender), ^B{1688^B}; John Dollond, English optician, ^B{1706^B}; Gustave Courbet, French painter, ^B{1819^B}; Henry Morton Stanley, US journalist and explorer, ^B{1840^B}; G E Buckle, English newspaper editor, ^B{1854^B}; Saul Bellow, US novelist, ^B{1915^B}; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, ^B{1921^B}; Judy Garland, US film actress and singer, ^B{1922^B}; Maurice Sendak, US illustrator, ^B{1928^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Luis Vaz de Camoens, Portuguese poet, ^B{1580^B}; Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor, ^B{1654^B}; Thomas Hearne, English antiquary and keeper of the Bodleian Library, ^B{1735^B}; AndrΘe AmpΦre, French physicist, ^B{1836^B}; 'Pierre Loti' (Julien Viaud), French novelist, ^B{1923^B}; Frederick Delius, English composer, ^B{1934^B}; Spencer Tracey, US film actor, ^B{1967^B}.
