Today is Saturday, June 10, the 161st day of 2006. There are 204 days left in the year. On this date in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.

Today is Saturday, June 10, the 161st day of 2006. There are 204 days left in the year. On this date in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.
In 1801, the north African state of Tripoli declares 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" premieres in Munich, Germany. In 1940, Italy declares war on France and Britain; Canada declares war on Italy. In 1942, the Gestapo massacres 173 male residents of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of a Nazi official. In 1946, Italy replaces its abolished monarchy with a republic. 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 agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. In 1978, "Affirmed" wins the Belmont Stakes and with it, horse racing's Triple Crown. 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, 1981: Both victims of an industrial accident at Sentco Paint Manufacturing Co. die in the burn unit at Akron Children's Hospital. Dead are Bill Brewer, 15, of Lowellville and Larry Brothers, 22, of Youngstown.
Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania continue to bailout from a torrential downpour that caused a break in an earthen dam at Cascade Park and caused raw sewage overflows at South Shenango that contaminated the Pymatuning Reservoir.
Baldwin-Wallace College confers honorary degrees on two Youngstown natives, James L. Beeghly and the Rev. Forrest J. Waller.
June 10, 1966: Three West Mifflin, Pa., teenagers who were released by Mercer County Judge John Q. Stranahan, who found insufficient evidence to have them held in the March 21 shooting death of a Greenville policemen, were immediately rearrested, taken before Justice of the Peace Virginia Palmer and bound over to the grand jury.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Adelbert J. Cook is named pastor of St. Charles Church, succeeding the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John L. Bardon, who is retiring after serving as pastor of the church since 1945.
An estimated 5,000 people watch a parade of 74 marching units in East Palestine in connection with the tri-county VFW Spring Festival.
June 10, 1956: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles says America cannot buy security at bargain-basement prices and says the nation will have to spend $40 billion a year to combat the threat of international Communism.
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Many prominent families are well represented at the 90th annual reunion of Rayen School alumni. Among the 1,200 attending were five members of the Wick family and five members of the Renner family.
June 10, 1931: U.S. Route 62, with a western terminus in Maysville, Ky., will be extended through Youngstown and will run north and east to Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Indicating an almost imperceptible bettering of conditions in the Mahoning Valley, payroll figures for the period of April 15 through May 15 increase by $21,000 over the previous 30-day period for the third straight time. The total was $5,541,197.
Cyrus Huston, 93, the father of six children and grandfather of 76, dies at his home near New Waterford of infirmities.