Today is Thursday, June 10, the 161st day of 2010. There are 204 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On June 10, 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
ON THIS DATE
In 1610, Englishman Lord De La Warr arrived at the Jamestown settlement to take charge of the Virginia colony.
In 1865, the Richard Wagner opera “Tristan und Isolde” premiered in Munich, Germany.
In 1907, 11 men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris. (Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in the French capital two months later.)
In 1940, Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking at the University of Virginia, said the U.S. stance toward the conflict was shifting from one of “neutrality” to “nonbelligerency.”
In 1942, the Gestapo killed 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
In 1964, the Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern senators.
In 1967, the Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured June 13.
In 1978, Affirmed won the Belmont Stakes and with it, horse racing’s Triple Crown.
In 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I. at his retrial on charges he’d tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha “Sunny” von Bulow.
In 2000, Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69; he was succeeded by his son, Bashar. The New Jersey Devils won their second Stanley Cup in six seasons with a 2-1 victory in double overtime over the Dallas Stars in Game 6 of the finals. Commendable won the Belmont Stakes. Frenchwoman Mary Pierce beat Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5 to win the French Open women’s singles title.
In 2005, President George W. Bush and visiting South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun pressed North Korea to rejoin deadlocked talks on its nuclear weapons program while trying to minimize their own differences over how hard to push the reclusive communist regime. Democrat Jim Exon, a two-term Nebraska governor and three-term senator, died at age 83.
In 2009, James von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist, opened fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., killing security guard Stephen T. Johns. (Von Brunn died at a North Carolina hospital in January 2010 while awaiting trial.) Donald Trump fired Miss California USA Carrie Prejean.
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