About the day » Monday June 10, 1878Calender converter

• Agnes Maria Johanna Plag, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1885)
• Arie Nuis, Charlois, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1960)
• Antoinette Petronella Jarman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1878)
• Albert John Frost, Pendleton, Kentucky († 1937)
• Abraham Gaal, 's-Gravenhage († 1879)
• (l.l.) Post, Hillegersberg († 1878)
• Adriana KETTENIS, Rotterdam
• Alphonsina Maria Verschraegen (Stuer), Gent († 1942)
• Annigje Arentsdr Talen, Tjalleberd († 1881)
• Alfredo Ernesto Mery, Cêrro Azul, Paraná, Brasil

• Adriana KETTENIS (7), Rotterdam
• Berend van Dam (80), Zalk en Veecaten
• Antonius LATHOUWERS (32), Sint Oedenrode
• Arie Koppert (6), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Wilhelmina Frederika Kort (42), Leiden
• Adriana van de Wal (72), Oirschot,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Benedictus Engelbertus Breugelmans (34), Geel
• Ruijgrok, 's Gravenzande
• Aaltje Hindriks Comsaris (84), Scheemda
• Arend Van Engelen (39), Monnickendam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1862 » Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress († 1937)
• 1863 » Louis Couperus, Dutch author and poet († 1923)
• 1864 » Ninian Comper, Scottish architect († 1960)
• 1865 » Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer († 1940)
• 1880 » André Derain, French painter and sculptor († 1954)
• 1882 » Nils Økland, Norwegian Esperantist and teacher († 1969)
• 1884 » Leone Sextus Tollemache, English captain († 1917)
• 1886 » Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer († 1973)
• 1891 » Al Dubin, Swiss-American songwriter († 1945)
• 1895 » Hattie McDaniel, American actress († 1952)

• 1849 » Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (b. 1773)
• 1849 » Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician (b. 1784)
• 1868 » Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia (b. 1823)
• 1899 » Ernest Chausson, French composer (b. 1855)
• 1901 » Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1841)
• 1902 » Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (b. 1845)
• 1906 » Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1845)
• 1909 » Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (b. 1822)
• 1914 » Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect (b. 1845)
• 1918 » Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer (b. 1842)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
• January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
• February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
• February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

The temperature on June 10, 1878 was about 18.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 24 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%.