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This day in history
Claus von Bulow (left) and his attorney, Alan Dershowitz, spoke to reporters after von Bulow’s aquittal in 1985. (George Rizer/Globe Staff/File 1985)

Today is Sunday, June 10, the 161st day of 2018. There are 204 days left in the year.

►Birthdays: Britain’s Prince Philip is 97. Biologist E.O. Wilson is 89. Attorney F. Lee Bailey is 85. Actress Alexandra Stewart is 79. Singer Shirley Alston Reeves (the Shirelles) is 77. Media commentator Jeff Greenfield is 75. Actor Andrew Stevens is 63. Singer Barrington Henderson is 62. Singer Maxi Priest is 57. Actress Kate Flannery is 54. Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 53. Rock musician Joey Santiago is 53. Actor Doug McKeon is 52. Rock musician Emma Anderson is 51. Rapper The D.O.C. is 50. Rock singer Mike Doughty is 48. Rhythm and blues singer JoJo is 47. Rhythm and blues singer Faith Evans is 45. Actor Hugh Dancy is 43. Olympic gold medal figure skater Tara Lipinski is 36. Actress Tristin Mays is 28. Sasha Obama is 17.

In 1610, Englishman Lord De La Warr arrived at the Jamestown settlement to take charge of the Virginia Colony.

In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged in the first execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.

In 1907, 11 men in five cars set out on a race from Peking to Paris; Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in the French capital, two months later.

In 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.

In 1944, German forces massacred 642 residents of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane.

In 1957, in Canadian elections, John Diefenbaker led the Progressive Conservatives to an upset victory over the Liberal party of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.

In 1967, six days of war in the Mideast involving Israel, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq ended as Israel and Syria accepted a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.

In 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.

In 1978, Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, won the 110th Belmont Stakes to claim horse racing’s 11th Triple Crown.

In 1985, socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., at his retrial of trying to murder his heiress wife, Martha ‘‘Sunny’’ von Bulow.

In 1990, Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru by a narrow margin over novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.

Last year, British Prime Minister Theresa May struck a deal in principle with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party to prop up the Conservative government, which had been stripped of its majority in a disastrous election.