Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2009. 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 1865, the Richard Wagner opera “Tristan und Isolde” premiered in Munich.
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.
In 1942, the Gestapo massacred 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 U.N.-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 2004, singer-musician Ray Charles died at age 73.
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