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From: "Mary" <>
Subject: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - June 10th
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 06:42:41 -0400


Today is Saturday, June tenth, the 162nd day of 2000.
There are 204 days left in the year.


Today's Highlight in History:
On June tenth, 1940, Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada
declared war on Italy.

On this date:
In 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.

In 1865, the Richard Wagner opera "Tristan und Isolde" premiered in
Munich, Germany.

In 1922, singer-actress Judy Garland was born in Grand Rapids,
Minnesota.

In 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.

In 1942, the Gestapo massacred 173 male residents of Lidice,
Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official.

In 1946, Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.

In 1964, the Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil
rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.

In 1967, the Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to
observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Junior, escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison
in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured June 13th.

In 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in
Providence, Rhode Island, at his retrial on charges he'd tried to
murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.

Ten years ago: Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru by a
narrow margin over novelist Mario Vargos Llosa. Two members of the rap
group 2 Live Crew were arrested in Hollywood, Florida (they and a
third band member were acquitted of obscenity charges October 20th.)

Five years ago: US Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, rescued after
being shot down over Bosnia, described his six-day ordeal at a news
conference at Aviano Air Base in Italy, saying he was no Rambo and no
hero. A bomb blamed on drug traffickers exploded in Medellin,
Colombia, killing 26 people. "Thunder Gulch" won the Belmont Stakes.

One year ago: Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to
suspend its punishing 78-day air war. The Supreme Court ruled, 6-to-3,
that the city of Chicago went too far in its fight against street
gangs by ordering police to break up groups of loiterers.

Today's Birthdays:
Britain's Prince Philip is 79.
Columnist Nat Hentoff is 75.
Actress June Haver is 74.
Actor-director Lionel Jeffries is 74.
Author Maurice Sendak is 72.
Actor Gardner McKay is 68.
Attorney F. Lee Bailey is 67.
Actress Alexandra Stewart is 61.
Singer Shirley Alston (The Shirelles) is 59.
Actor Jurgen Prochnow is 59.
Media commentator Jeff Greenfield is 57.
Country singer-songwriter Thom Schuyler is 48.
Actor Andrew Stevens is 45.
Singer Barrington Henderson is 44.
Actress Gina Gershon is 38.
Actress Elisabeth Shue is 37.
Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn is 37.
Rock musician Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins) is 36.
Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 35.
Model Linda Evangelista is 35.
Country singer-songwriter Ken Mellons is 35.
Actor Doug McKeon is 34.
Rock musician Emma Anderson is 33.
Rock singer M. Doughty (Soul Coughing) is 30.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Jo-Jo is 29.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Faith Evans is 27.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Lemisha Grinstead (702) is 22.
Actor Shane West is 22.
Actress Leelee Sobieski is 18.
Olympic gold medal figure skater Tara Lipinski is 18.

Thought for Today:

"Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder."
-- Paul Valery, French poet (1871-1945).


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