Publisher's Synopsis
Here's a chance for anyone with a birthday on June 10th to view a very special slice of the past...the events that occurred over the past two millennia on that exact day of the year. How many times did something that happened on June 10 steer the path of history in a different direction from that moment forward? Some were born, some died, ships sailed and ships sank, music was composed, technology totally changed the way we communicated, wars were won (or lost, depending upon one's viewpoint), and weather events changed the face of the earth. And then there are the little things that amaze and inspire us to wonder why we didn't think of this before, like when on June 10, 1903, Binney & Smith Company began developing a product line of wax crayons. The product was named Crayola
