1688
Jun 10, Mary of Modena, the wife of Britain’s King James II, gave birth to a male heir. This placed England, much to the dismay of Parliament, in line for a succession of Catholic monarchs.

1720
Jun 10, Mrs. Clements of England marketed the 1st paste-style mustard.

1688
Jun 10, Mary of Modena, the wife of Britain’s King James II, gave birth to a male heir, James Francis Edward Stuart (d.1766). This placed England, much to the dismay of Parliament, in line for a succession of Catholic monarchs. On 10 December, within six months of his birth, Mary of Modena took baby James to France, worried about his safety, while his father, James II, continued to fight (unsuccessfully) to retain his crown.

1911
Jun 10, Queen Wilhelmina opened the Rembrandt house in Amsterdam.

1915
Jun 10, Girl Scouts were founded.

1922
Jun 10, Judy Garland, singer-actress was born as Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn. She starred in The Wizard of Oz and Easter Parade.

1996
Jun 10, In Malaysia Irene Fernandez, head of the human rights group Tenaganita, went on trial for her 1995 published report on prison conditions of immigrant inmates. 71 deaths have been caused by alleged abuse. She was charged under a 1986 law that banned the publication of "malicious allegations" against the government. Seven years later, she was sentenced to one year in prison but appealed. In 2008 she was acquitted.

2000
Jun 10, Frenchwoman Mary Pierce beat Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5 to win the French Open women’s singles title.

2000
Jun 10, A UN Women’s Conference in NYC approved a new plan to advance the 1995 Beijing Agenda.

2008
Jun 10, Levonda J. Selph, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, pleaded guilty to steering a Pentagon contract for warehouses in Iraq to a contractor in return for $4,000 cash and a $5,000 trip to Thailand. She agreed to cooperate in the investigation and to pay the government $9,000 in restitution and serve a prison term.

2009
Jun 10, In Ingushetia gunmen shot and killed Aza Gazgireeva, a top judge, as she dropped her children off at school in Russia's North Caucasus. Five other people were reported wounded, including a small child. Investigators said Gazgireeva likely was killed for her role in investigating a Chechen militants' attack on Ingush police forces in 2004.

2011
Jun 10, In a surgical procedure that took more than twenty hours, Charla Nash (57), a Connecticut woman disfigured in a Feb 16, 2009, attack by her friend’s chimpanzee Travis, received a face transplant at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is only the third person in the United States to receive a full face transplant. At the same time, surgeons also attempted to give Nash a hand transplant, but this procedure was not successful.