This day in history (6/11/08)
Issue date: 6/18/08 Section: News
1865 The Richard Wagner opera "Tristan und Isolde" premiered in Munich, Germany.
1907 Eleven men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris.
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.
1964 The Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.
1967 The Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire
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 June 13.
1978 Affirmed won the Belmont Stakes and, with it, horse racing's Triple Crown.
1998 A jury in Jacksonville, Fla., ordered Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. to pay nearly $1 million to the family of Roland Maddox, who had died after smoking Lucky Strikes for almost 50 years.)
2007 HBO aired the final episode of "The Sopranos."
1907 Eleven men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris.
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.
1964 The Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states.
1967 The Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire
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 June 13.
1978 Affirmed won the Belmont Stakes and, with it, horse racing's Triple Crown.
1998 A jury in Jacksonville, Fla., ordered Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. to pay nearly $1 million to the family of Roland Maddox, who had died after smoking Lucky Strikes for almost 50 years.)
2007 HBO aired the final episode of "The Sopranos."
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