Today is the 162nd day of 2012 and the 83rd day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1935, Dr. Robert Smith and Bill Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous.

In 1967, India and Syria agreed to a cease-fire, ending the Six-Day War.

In 2003, NASA launched the Mars exploration rover Spirit from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Prince Philip (1921- ), husband of Queen Elizabeth II; Judy Garland (1922-1969), actress/singer; Maurice Sendak (1928-2012), author/illustrator; John Edwards (1953- ), politician; Eliot Spitzer (1959- ), politician; Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963- ), actress; Elizabeth Hurley (1965- ), model/actress; Bobby Jindal (1971- ), politician; Andy Schleck (1985- ), cyclist.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1978, Affirmed won horse racing's Triple Crown.

TODAY'S FACT: California and Texas have the largest prisoner populations, with around 170,000 prisoners each.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "Dentopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I've been practicing it for years." -- Prince Philip

TODAY'S NUMBER: 37.5 -- percentage of Americans under 35 who owned their own home in 2011.

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (June 4) and last quarter moon (June 11).

Today is the 161st day of 2012 and the 82nd day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1790, John Barry's "The Philadelphia Spelling Book" became the first copyrighted work in the United States.

In 1954, Army counsel Joseph Welch confronted Sen. Joseph McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings.

In 1999, Yugoslavia signed a peace treaty pledging that Serbian forces would withdraw from Kosovo in 11 days.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Cole Porter (1891-1964), composer; Robert Cummings (1908-1990), actor; Robert S. McNamara (1916-2009), World Bank head/U.S. secretary of defense; Dick Vitale (1939- ), sportscaster; Michael J. Fox (1961- ), actor; Johnny Depp (1963- ), actor; Natalie Portman (1981- ), actress.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 2010, the Chicago Blackhawks won Game 6 of the Stanley Cup series 4-3 over the Philadelphia Flyers, claiming their first NHL championship since 1961.

TODAY'S FACT: Secretariat, who claimed horse racing's Triple Crown on this day in 1973, was one of three non-human athletes included in ESPN's list of the 100 greatest 20th-century athletes.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "I would rather have a wrong decision made than no decision at all." -- Robert S. McNamara

TODAY'S NUMBER: 5 -- weeks that Robert S. McNamara served as the president of Ford Motor Co. before he was appointed the secretary of defense in 1960. McNamara was the first Ford president to not be related to founder Henry Ford.

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (June 4) and last quarter moon (June 11).

Today is the 160th day of 2012 and the 81st day of spring.

TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1789, James Madison, then a member of the House of Representatives, proposed the Bill of Rights to Congress.

In 1968, James Earl Ray, who was suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested in London.

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan became the first U.S. president to address a joint session of the British Parliament.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Robert Schumann (1810-1856), composer; Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), architect; Francis Crick (1916-2004), biophysicist; Barbara Pierce Bush (1925- ), former first lady; Jerry Stiller (1927- ), comedian/actor; Joan Rivers (1933- ), comedian/actress; Tim Berners-Lee (1955- ), World Wide Web inventor; Julianna Margulies (1966- ), actress; Kanye West (1977- ), musician; Kim Clijsters (1983- ), tennis player.

TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1966, the National Football League and the American Football League announced their merger as the NFL, with American and National conferences.

TODAY'S FACT: Between 1980 and 2010, the percentage of the U.S. population that was foreign-born grew from 6.2 percent to 12.9 percent.

TODAY'S QUOTE: "The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

TODAY'S NUMBER: 65 -- congressmen who served in the first session of the House of Representatives (1789-1791).

TODAY'S MOON: Between full moon (June 4) and last quarter moon (June 11).