TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SUNDAY, JUNE 10, the 161st day of 2018. There are 204 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1978, Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, won the 110th Belmont Stakes to claim horse racing’s 11th Triple Crown.
In 1610, Englishman Lord De La Warr arrived at the Jamestown settlement to take charge of the Virginia Colony.
In 1692, the first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.
In 1907, 11 men in 5 cars set out on a race from “Peking 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.
In 1942, during World War II, German forces massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
In 1967, six days of war in the Mideast involving Israel, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq ended as Israel and Syria accepted 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 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., at his retrial of trying to murder his heiress wife, Martha “Sunny” von Bulow.
In 1990, Two members of the rap group 2 Live Crew were arrested in Hollywood, Fla., (they and a third band member were later acquitted of obscenity charges).
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Britain’s Prince Philip is 97. Actress Alexandra Stewart is 79. Singer Shirley Alston Reeves (The Shirelles) and actor Jurgen Prochnow are
77. Media commentator Jeff Greenfield is 75. Country singer-songwriter Thom Schuyler is 66. Actor Andrew Stevens is 63. Singer Barrington Henderson is
62. Rock musician Kim Deal and singer Maxi Priest are 57. Actress Gina Gershon is 56. Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn is 55. Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley and rock musician Joey Santiago are 53. Actor Doug McKeon is 52. Rapper The D.O.C. is 50. Rock singer Mike Doughty is 48. Rhythm and blues singer Faith Evans is
45. Actor Hugh Dancy is 43. Rhythm and blues singer Lemisha Grinstead (702), and actors DJ Qualls and Shane West are 40. Singer Hoku is 37. Actress Leelee Sobieski and Olympic gold medal figure skater Tara Lipinski are 36. Americana musician Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Drive) is 33. Actress Tristin Mays is 28. Sasha Obama is 17.