Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2009. There are 204 days left in the year.
552 _ Origin of Armenian calendar
1866 _ Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Mass
1892 _ First concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1918 _ Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established
1923 _ All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy
1925 _ USSR's official news agency TASS established
1951 _ Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Gaeseong
1965 _ Rolling Stones score their first No. 1, ``I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
1980 _ Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
1985 _ Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke