#OTD On 10 June 1918, Luigi Rizzo's MAS-15 torpedo boat sank the 21,000-ton Austro-Hungarian dreadnought SMS Szent István near Premuda. The attack is regarded as one of the most successful motor torpedo boat attacks in naval history
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On June 10, 1940, Norwegian forces signed a treaty of capitulation to Nazi Germany,ending 62 days of resistance. This surrender allowed Germany to drive out Allied forces, gain crucial naval and submarine access to the North Atlantic and secure its supply of Swedish iron ore for the war machine
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#OTD On June 10, 1967, the Six-Day War ended, exposing Europe's subordinate geopolitical standing and prompting independent foreign policies. European powers lost imperial leverage, accelerating diplomatic realignments that led to critical energy dependencies during the 1973 oil crisis
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#OTD On June 10, 1898, the 1st Marine Battalion landed at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, establishing an advanced naval base that secured a foothold for U.S. forces. This amphibious operation was part of the broader Spanish-American War, a conflict that propelled the U.S. onto the global stage
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#OTD On June 10, 1944, Nazi Waffen-SS Das Reich division decimated Oradour-sur-Glane. Soldiers systematically murdered 642 civilians—245 women and 207 children—in the worst civilian massacre on French soil during WWII. The village was burned to the ground
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#OTD On June 10, 1945, the 24th Infantry Brigade of the Australian 9th Division landed on Labuan Island, northwest Borneo. This assault was part of Operation Oboe, the final Allied campaign to liberate Borneo from Japanese occupation
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#OTD On June 10, 1940, Benito Mussolini opportunistically declared war on France and the UK from the Palazzo Venezia balcony. Seeking territorial spoils as France collapsed, he brought Italy into WWII with Germany, expanding the conflict into Africa and the Mediterranean.
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On June 10, 1944, Waffen-SS troops committed one of the gravest atrocities of the German occupation of Greece. In a brutal reprisal for partisan activity, soldiers went door-to-door in Distomo, slaughtering 228 defenseless men,women and children before burning the village to the ground
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On June 10, 1942, Nazi forces obliterated the Czech village of Lidice in a brutal reprisal for the assassination of top SS leader Reinhard Heydrich. SS troops rounded up and executed 173 men, sent most women and children to concentration camps and razed the entire village to the ground
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#OTD Enraged by Italy's invasion of France, Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his historic "Stab in the Back" speech at the University of Virginia. FDR declared: "On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor."
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