Today is Friday, June 10, the 162nd day of 2016. There are 204 days left in the year.
Today’s birthdays: Britain’s Prince Philip is 95. Columnist Nat Hentoff is 91. Biologist E.O. Wilson is 87. Attorney F. Lee Bailey is 83. Singer Shirley Alston Reeves is 75. Media commentator Jeff Greenfield is 73. Football Hall of Famer Dan Fouts is 65. Former senator John Edwards, Democrat of North Carolina, is 63. Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is 57. Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 51. Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is 45. Olympic gold medal figure skater Tara Lipinski is 34. Americana musician Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Drive) is 31. Model Kate Upton is 24. Sasha Obama is 15.
In 1692, the first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.
In 1864, the Confederate Congress authorized military service for men between the ages of 17 and 70.
In 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.
In 1967, the Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.
In 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence at his retrial on charges he’d tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha ‘‘Sunny’’ von Bulow.
Last year, President Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq in an effort to reverse major battlefield losses to the Islamic State.