Today In History: June 10

[Seneca]

June 10, 2005

Today in history

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 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.

• In 1940, Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.

• 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 1978, Affirmed won the Belmont Stakes and with it, horse racing's Triple Crown.

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

• In 2002, organized crime figure John Gotti died at 51 in a Missouri prison hospital.

[Bullwinkle925]

1. June 10, 1958 - I survived a 'killer' tornado in El Dorado, Kansas.

A day I will never forget!