Video: 'Speed' trailer
(Friday, June 10, 1994) — Speed, an action film about a morally ambivalent cop who must remove a bomb planted under a bus that’s triggered to explode when its speed drops below 50 mph, was released today in U.S. and Canadian theaters.
Directed by Jan de Bont, the film starred Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Joe Morton and Jeff Daniels.
(Wednesday, June 10, 1964, during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)) — The U.S. Senate voted today to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern senators. Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill.
Video: 'World at War - Remember - Episode 26 of 26' (part 1; June 10, 1944, at 0:00-1:36)
(Saturday, June 10, 1944; during World War II) — A German Waffen-SS company massacred 642 residents, including women and children, of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane today.
Video: 'Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site'
(Friday, June 10, 1864, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. local time; during the American Civil War) — The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads, fought in Mississippi today, ended in a rout of Union forces and cemented Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s reputation as one of the great cavalrymen.
