DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Friday, June 10, the 161st day of 2022. There are 204 days left in the year. On this date in:
1692: The first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.
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.)
1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.
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.
1971: President Richard M. Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.
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 three days later.
1978: Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, won the 110th Belmont Stakes to claim horse racing’s 11th Triple Crown.
1991: Jaycee Dugard, 11, of South Lake Tahoe, California, was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Jaycee was held by the couple for 18 years before she was found by authorities.
2009: James von Brunn, an 88-yearold white supremacist, opened fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., killing security guard Stephen T. Johns. (Von Brunn died at a North Carolina hospital in January 2010 while awaiting trial.) Donald Trump fired Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who’d sparked controversy when she said gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry.
2013: Jury selection began in Sanford, Florida, in the trial of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. (Zimmerman was acquitted.)
2016: Muhammad Ali was laid to rest in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, after an all-day send-off. “Mr. Hockey” Gordie Howe, who set scoring records that stood for decades, died in Sylvania, Ohio, at 88.
June 10
Actor Frankie Faison (“The Village,” “The Wire”) is 73. Actor Kate Flannery
(“The Office”) is 58. Model-actor Elizabeth Hurley is 57. Guitarist Joey Santiago of The Pixies is 57. Actor Doug Mckeon
(“On Golden Pond”) is 56. Guitarist Emma Anderson (Lush) is 55. Country guitarist Brian Hofeldt
of The Derailers is 55. Rapper The D.O.C. is 54. Singer Mike Doughty (Soul Coughing) is 52. Singer Jojo of KCI and Jojo is 51. Singer Faith Evans is 49. Actor Hugh Dancy is 47. Singer Lemisha Grinstead of 702 is 44. Actor DJ Qualls (“Memphis Beat,” “Hustle and Flow”) is 44. Actor Shane West
(“ER,” “Now and Again”) is 44. Country singer Lee Brice is 43.