Today is Tuesday, June 8, the 159th day of 2010. There are 206 days left in the year.

On this date:

In A.D. 632, the prophet Muhammad died in Medina.

In 1861, Tennessee seceded from the Union.

In 1864, Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party's convention in Baltimore.

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt offered to act as a mediator in the Russo-Japanese War.

In 1915, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement with President Woodrow Wilson over US handling of the sinking of the Lusitania.

In 1967, during the Six-Day War, 34 US servicemen were killed when Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship stationed in the Mediterranean. (Israel later said the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.)

In 1978, a jury in Clark County, Nev., ruled the so-called "Mormon will," purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.

In 1995, US Marines rescued Capt. Scott O'Grady, whose F-16C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.

Thought for Today:

"Malice drinks one-half of its own poison." — Seneca, Roman statesman (circa 5 B.C.-A.D. 65).