Today is Friday, June 10, the 161st day of 2011. There are 204 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight:
On June 10, 1921, President Warren Harding signed into law the Budget and Accounting Act, which created the Bureau of the Budget and the General Accounting Office.
On this date:
In 1610, Englishman Lord De La Warr arrived at the Jamestown settlement to take charge of the Virginia Colony.
In 1861, during the Civil War, Confederate troops routed Union soldiers in the Battle of Big Bethel in Virginia.
In 1907, eleven 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 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.
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