Today is the 173rd day of 2016. There are193 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

2011: The Food and Drug Administration announced that cigarette packs in the US would have to carry macabre images that included rotting teeth and gums, diseased lungs and a sewn-up corpse of a smoker as part of a graphic campaign aimed at discouraging Americans from lighting up.

OTHER EVENTS

1788: The United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.

1834: Cyrus Hall McCormick receives a patent for his reaping machine.

1913: Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an aeroplane as she jumped over Los Angeles.

1955: The David Lean movie Summertime starring Katharine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi opened in New York.

1963: Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is chosen during a conclave of his fellow cardinals to succeed the late Pope John XXIII; the new pope took the name Paul VI.

1964: Civil rights workers Michael H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney are slain in Philadelphia, Mississippi; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later. (Forty-one years on this date in 2005, Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman, was found guilty of manslaughter; he was sentenced to 60 years in prison.)

1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols’ film version of the Edward Albee play starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, had its world premiere in Hollywood.

1973: The US Supreme Court, in Miller v California, ruled that states may ban materials found to be obscene according to local standards.

1982: A jury in Washington, DC, found John Hinckley Jr not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings of President Ronald Reagan and three other men.

1985: Scientists announceds that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele.

1989: A sharply divided Supreme Court rules that burning the American flag as a form of political protest was protected by the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom of speech.

2006: The Marine Corps announced that seven Marines and a sailor had been charged with murder for pulling an unarmed Iraqi civilian from his home and shooting him to death the previous April without provocation. (The group’s leader, Sgt Lawrence G Hutchins III, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted of unpremeditated murder; five cut deals with prosecutors in which they pleaded guilty to lesser charges.) President George W Bush, addressing the annual US-European Union summit in Vienna, accused Iran of dragging its feet on a Western incentive package aimed at getting Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment activity.

2011: Amid street protests, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survived a confidence vote.

2015: Four days after it welcomed a young stranger who sat for prayer and then allegedly opened fire, killing nine people, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church held its first worship service with themes of love and healing, plus a note of defiance. (Suspect Dylann Roof faces murder charges.) Jordan Spieth became the sixth player to win the Masters and the US Open after Dustin Johnson three-putted from 12 feet on the final hole at Chambers Bay with a chance to win the championship himself.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Actor Monte Markham is 81. Songwriter Don Black is 78. Actress Mariette Hartley is 76. Comedian Joe Flaherty is 75. Rock singer-musician Ray Davies (The Kinks) is 72. Actress Meredith Baxter is 69. Actor Michael Gross is 69. Actress Robyn Douglass is 63. Actor Leigh McCloskey is 61. Actress Sammi Davis is 52. Actor Doug Savant is 52. Country musician Porter Howell is 52. Actor Michael Dolan is 51. Writer-director Lana Wachowski is 51. Actress Carrie Preston is 49. Actress Paula Irvine is 48. Rapper/producer Pete Rock is 46. Country singer Allison Moorer is 44. Actress Juliette Lewis is 43. Actress Maggie Siff is 42. Rock singer Brandon Flowers is 35. Britain’s Prince William is 34. Actor Jussie Smollett is 34. Actor Benjamin Walker is 34. Actor Michael Malarkey is 33. Pop singer Kris Allen (TV:

American Idol) is 31. Actor Jascha Washington is 27. Pop singer Rebecca Black is 19.

— AP