Today In History

Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 162nd day of 2020. There are 204 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 1971: President Richard M. Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.

ON THIS DATE

› 1942: During World War II, German forces massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.

› 1944: German forces massacred 642 residents of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane.

› 1963: President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at eliminating wage disparities based on gender.

› 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.

› 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.

› 1978: Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, won the 110th Belmont Stakes to claim horse racing’s 11th Triple Crown. (Alydar was second while Darby Creek Road came in third in a five-horse field.)

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Britain’s Prince Philip is 99. Attorney F. Lee Bailey is 87. Actress Alexandra Stewart is 81. Actor Frankie Faison is 71. Football Hall of Famer Dan Fouts is 69. Country singer-songwriter Thom Schuyler is 68. Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., is 67. Actor Andrew Stevens is 65. Singer Barrington Henderson is 64. Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is 61. Rock musician Kim Deal is 59. Actor Ben Daniels is 56. Actress Kate Flannery is

56. Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 55. Rock musician Joey Santiago is

55. Rock musician Emma Anderson is 53. Country musician Brian Hofeldt (The Derailers) is 53. Rapper The D.O.C. is 52. Rock singer Mike Doughty is 50. Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is 49. R&B singer Faith Evans is

47. Actor Hugh Dancy is

45. R&B singer Lemisha Grinstead (702) is 42. Singer Hoku is 39. Actress Leelee Sobieski is 38. Olympic gold medal figure skater Tara Lipinski is

38. Actor Titus Makin is

31. Actress Tristin Mays is 30. Sasha Obama is 19. Actress Eden McCoy is 17.