Apple shipped the first Apple II computer on June 10, 1977.
Born on this day: historian, jazz critic and civil libertarian Nat Hentoff (1925); children’s writer Maurice Sendak (1929); scientist and pioneer of “sociobiology” E. O. Wilson (1929).
June 10 deaths include military leader Alexander the Great (323 BC), playwright and poet Angelina Weld Grimké (1958); and novelist Louis L’Amour (1988).