Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.
Today is Wednesday, June 8, the 159th day of 2022. There are 206 days left in the year.On June 8, 1864, Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president during the National Union Party’s convention in Baltimore.In 1867, modern American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
In 1966, a merger was announced between the National and American Football Leagues, to take effect in 1970. In 1968, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1995, U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O’Grady, whose F-16C fighter jet had been shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2. Mickey Mantle received a liver transplant at a Dallas hospital; however, the baseball great died two months later.In 2009, North Korea’s highest court sentenced American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years’ hard labor for trespassing and “hostile acts.”
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