Associated Press
On June 10, 1967, the Six-Day War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
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.
1922 Singer-actress Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.
1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
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.
1991 Jaycee Dugard, 11, 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.
1999 Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.
2000 Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69.
2003 ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal.
2007 The final episode of “The Sopranos” aired on HBO.
Today’s Birthdays:
Prince Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, turns 94 years old today.
F. Lee Bailey, Attorney, 82
Jeff Greenfield, TV commentator, 72
Dan Fouts, Football Hall of Famer, 64
John Edwards, Former U.S. senator, D-N.C. 62
Eliot Spitzer, Former governor of New York, 56
Kim Deal, Rock musician (Pixies), 54
Maxi Priest, Reggae singer, 54
Gina Gershon Actress, singer, 53
Jeanne Tripplehorn, Actress, 52
Kate Flannery, Actress (“The Office”), 51
Elizabeth Hurley, Model, actress, 50
Doug McKeon, Actor, 49
Faith Evans, R&B singer, 42
Hugh Dancy, Actor, 40
Lemisha Grinstead, R&B singer (702), 37
DJ Qualls, Actor, 37
Shane West, Actor, 37
Hoku, Singer, 34
Tara Lipinski, Figure skater, 33
Leelee Sobieski, Actress, 33
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal turns 44 years old today.