HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY

Today’s highlight:

On June 10, 1978, Affirmed, ridden by Steve

Cauthen, won the 110th Belmont Stakes to claim horse racing’s 11th Triple Crown.

On this date:

1610: Englishman Lord De La Warr arrived at the Jamestown settlement to take charge of the Virginia Colony.

1692: The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.

1892: The Republican national convention in Minneapolis nominated President Benjamin Harrison for re-election and Whitelaw Reid for vice president. Harrison, however, lost the election to former President Grover Cleveland.

1907: Eleven men in five 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. 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

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.

1957: In Canadian elections, John Diefenbaker led the Progressive Conservatives to an upset victory over the Liberal party of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent

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.