Friday, June 10, 2005

Friday, June 10

This Day In History

  • 1801   The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.
  • 1854   The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD graduated its first class on this day.
  • 1922   Singer-actress Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.
  • 1935   Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
  • 1940   Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
  • 1942   The Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.
  • 1946   Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.
  • 1964   The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers.
  • 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 won horse racing's Triple Crown by taking the Belmont Stakes.
  • 1985   Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha ''Sunny'' von Bulow.
  • 1999   Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
  • 2000   Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69.
  • 2002   Organized crime figure John Gotti died at a prison hospital in Missouri at age 61.
Happy Birthday To
  • 1922   Judy Garland
  • 1933   F. (Francis) Lee Bailey (defense attorney: O.J. Simpson, Patty Hearst)

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