“This Week” looks back at the key events from this week in history.
June 8
A.D. 632: The prophet Muhammad died in Medina.
1864, Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party’s convention in Baltimore.
1867: Modern American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
1968: Authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
2018: Celebrity chef, author and CNN host Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in eastern France.
June 9
1692: Bridget Bishop was hanged in the first execution of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1732: James Oglethorpe received a charter from Britain’s King George II to found the colony of Georgia.
1870: Author Charles Dickens died in Gad’s Hill Place, England.
1915: Guitarist, songwriter and inventor Les Paul was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
June 10
1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson.
1977: James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Tennessee with six others; he was recaptured three days later.
1983: Britain’s Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, won a decisive election victory.
June 11
1509: England’s King Henry VIII married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon
1770: Captain James Cook, commander of the British Endeavour, “discovered” the Great Barrier Reef off Australia by running onto it.
1776: The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence calling for freedom from Britain.
1955: More than 80 people were killed during the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, motor racing’s worst disaster.
1962: Three prisoners at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay staged an escape, leaving the island on a makeshift raft; they were never found or heard from again.
June 12
1630: Englishman John Winthrop, leading a fleet carrying Puritan refugees, arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he became its governor.
1776: Virginia’s colonial legislature adopted a Declaration of Rights.
1942: Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis.
1963: Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
1964: Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison along with seven other people, including Walter Sisulu, for committing sabotage against the apartheid regime.
1987: President Ronald Reagan exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
1978: David Berkowitz was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six “Son of Sam” .44-caliber killings that terrified New Yorkers.
1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed outside her Los Angeles home.