On this date
In 1922, singer-actress Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.
In 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by 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 1944, German forces massacred 642 residents of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane. (The remnants of the village still stand as a memorial.)
In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured June 13.
In 1982, Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi fantasy “E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial” had its world premiere in Los Angeles.
In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Jaycee was held by the couple for 18 years before she was found by authorities.
Ten years ago: HBO aired the final episode of “The Sopranos,” featuring an abrupt blackout ending that forever left dangling the fate of mob boss Tony Soprano.
Five years ago: Parts of northern Colorado and southern New Mexico battled wildfires that were spreading rapidly through mountainous forest land, forcing hundreds of evacuations.
One year ago: Singer Christina Grimmie, 22, a finalist on NBC’s “The Voice,” was shot to death during a meetand-greet after giving a concert in Orlando, Fla., by an apparently obsessed fan who then killed himself.