June 10th

The final episode of "The Sopranos" aired on HBO.

ImClone chief Sam Waksal was sentenced to more than seven years in prison in connection with a stock-trading scandal.

Syrian President Hafez Assad died at age 69.

Yugoslav troops departed Kosovo, prompting NATO to suspend its punishing 78-day air war.

Jaycee Dugard, 11, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., was abducted by Phillip and Nancy Garrido; Jaycee was held by the couple for 18 years before she was found by authorities.

Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow.

Affirmed won horse racing's Triple Crown by taking the Belmont Stakes.

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 three days later.).

The Six-Day War between Israel and Syria, Egypt, and Jordan ended.

The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers.

US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy.

Italy replaced its abolished monarchy with a republic.

The entire male population of the Czech village of Lidice was massacred in retaliation for the death of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.

Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.

The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is established. The film studio produced at total of 1530 movies, among them some of the best-known films of the Soviet era, such as Hedgehog in the Fog and The Bremen Town Musicians.

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.

Singer-actress Judy Garland was born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.

Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks.

Autochrome Lumière color photography is introduced. The process was invented by the legendary Lumière brothers in 1903. It was the first practical and commercially successful technology for the production of color photos.

US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War.

Wagner's opera, Tristan and Isolde, premiered in Munich.

The North African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the Mediterranean.

A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.

Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (modern Turkey) leading an army to Jerusalem.