MONDAY, June 10, 2026

452-Attila the Hun invades Italy

793-Vikings in longships from modern-day Norway plunder St. Cuthbert's monastery on Lindisfarne Island off the northeast coast of England, capturing and killing monks

1191-King Richard I of England arrives at Acre in modern-day Israel to join the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade

1783-Laki volcano in southern Iceland begins an 8-month eruption, killing 10,000 people and causing widespread famine throughout Europe and Asia

1789-James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives

1918-Nova Aquilae is discovered, the brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604

1987-New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels, the only nation to legislate against nuclear power