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ond straight Eastern Conference title by beating the Boston Celtics 101-88 in Game 7 on Saturday night.
• Miami opens the title series in Oklahoma City on Tuesday night. The Heat got there by outscoring Boston 28-15 in the fourth quarter, with the "Big Three" of Dwyane Wade, Bosh and James scoring every Miami point.
• "We decided to come together and play together for a reason," Wade said.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Sunday, June 10, the 162nd day of 2012. There are 204 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 10, 1942, during World War II, German forces massacred 173 male residents of Lidice (LIH'-dyiht-zeh), Czechoslovakia, in retaliation for the killing of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
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• On this date:
• In 1692, the first official execution resulting from the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts took place as Bridget Bishop was hanged.
• In 1861, during the Civil War, Confederate troops routed Union soldiers in the Battle of Big Bethel in Virginia.
• In 1907, eleven men in five cars set out from the French embassy in Beijing on a race to Paris. (Prince Scipione Borghese of Italy was the first to arrive in the French capital two months later.)
• In 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed into law the Budget and Accounting Act, which created the Bureau of the Budget and the General Accounting Office.
• In 1922, singer-actress Judy Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn.
• In 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.
• In 1940, Italy declared war on France and Britain; Canada declared war on Italy.
• In 1967, the Middle East War ended as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
• In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon lifted a two-decades-old trade embargo on China.
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