Today is Tuesday, June 10, the 162nd day of 2008. There are 204 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, June 10, the 162nd day of 2008. There are 204 days left in the year. On this date in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.

In 1865, the Richard Wagner opera “Tristan und Isolde” premieres in Munich, Germany. In 1907, 11 men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris. (Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in the French capital two months later.) In 1940, Italy declares war on France and Britain; Canada declares war on Italy. In 1942, the Gestapo massacre 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official. In 1964, the Senate votes to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern states. In 1967, the Middle East War ends as Israel and Syria agree to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. In 1977, James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he is recaptured June 13. In 1978, Affirmed wins the Belmont Stakes and with it, horse racing’s Triple Crown. In 1982, the play “Torch Song Trilogy,” by Harvey Fierstein, opens on Broadway. In 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow is acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., at his retrial on charges he’d tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha “Sunny” von Bulow.

June 10, 1983: A state radiation analyst will soon start working full time in Columbiana County in case of a disaster at the Shippingport nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Kenneth B. Cole, a nuclear program supervisor with the Ohio Disaster Services Agency, says the expert will be in the county as long as the plant is there.

Closing arguments begin in the bribery and tax evasion trial of Mahoning County Sheriff James A. Traficant Jr.

Terry Martin of Warren leaves for San Francisco, where he will begin driving his restored 1903 Packard across country.

June 10, 1968: The Ohio Criminal and Investigation Laboratory at London finds that meat left out in the Poland area that poisoned several dogs was laced with strychnine, a poison that is fatal to humans and animals. A child could be poisoned by handling the meat and then putting his hands to his mouth, the laboratory warned.

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds a New York law that requires public school systems to lend textbooks to children in parochial and other private schools.

An investigation is launched into an accident at Elizabeth, N.J., that killed two spectators and injured five when a northbound express train struck spectators who had just witnessed the southbound funeral train of Robert F. Kennedy pass through the area.

June 10, 1958: TV comedian Danny Thomas is proclaimed a great entertainer, a great Lebanese-American and a great humanitarian by nearly 1,000 people at the first St. Jude Hospital Fund dinner-dance at the Idora Park ballroom.

Youngstown Traction Commissioner James W. Cannon tells City Council that bus fares will be increased, raising cash fares to 25 cents by the fall.

The estate of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Fellow, whose will provides perpetual rose gardens in Mill Creek Park, is appraised at $550,204.

June 10, 1933: Ohio joins the rank of states seeking to stamp out sweatshops by passing a minimum wage for women and children.

Attempts to arrange a meeting of merchants and labor leaders to consider a minimum wage for Youngstown store workers are being made by Jack Rapaport, manager of the Kline Department Store.

Acting as his own lawyer, George L. Oles, market house proprietor and former Youngstown mayor, prevails in a lawsuit brought by Mrs. Alvira Deitsch, who sought $5,000 in damages for injuries suffered when she slipped on a piece of lettuce in Oles’ store.