A.D. 632: The prophet Muhammad dies in Medina. 2008: Average price of regular gas creeps up to $4 a gallon. 2018: CNN host Anthony Bourdain found dead in his hotel room.
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 leaderThis 1959 photo provided by the St. Louis Police Department shows James Earl Ray, arrested on an armed robbery charge. On April 4, 1968, Ray shot and killed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn.
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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