Today is Monday, June 10, the 161st day of 2013. There are 204 days left in the year.
1752 ― Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning ― what a shock!
1846 ― Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1854 ― Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
1865 ― Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” first performance Munchen, Germany
1946 ― Italian Republic established
1966 ― Janis Joplin’s first live concert (Avalon Ballroom in S.F.)
1967 ― Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end “Six-Day War” with U.N. help
1977 ― Apple Computer ships its first Apple II
1985 ― Coca Cola announces they’d bring back their 99-year-old formula
1988 ― Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)