History Today
In 632 AD, Prophet Muhammad died in Medina.
In 1864, Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as President at the National Union (Republican) Convention in Baltimore.
American modern architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1867.
In 1953, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse service to black people.
In 1966, the merger of the National Football League and the American Football League was announced, to take effect in 1970.
In 1967, during the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War, Israel attacked the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence ship, in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 34 American soldiers. (Israel later said the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian ship.)
In 1968, authorities announced that James Earl Ray, a suspect in the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., had been arrested in London.
In 1978, a jury in Clark County, Nevada, found the so-called “Mormon Will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, to be a forgery.
In 1995, U.S. Marines rescued Capt. Scott O’Grady, whose F-16C fighter jet was shot down by Bosnian Serbs on June 2.
In 2008, the average price of regular gasoline rose to $4 per gallon.
In 2009, North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years’ hard labor for trespass and “hostile acts.” (The women were pardoned in early August 2009, following former President Bill Clinton’s visit to Pyongyang.)
In 2015, siding with the White House in a foreign policy power struggle with Congress, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Americans born in the disputed city of Jerusalem cannot list Israel as their place of birth on their passports.
In 2017, former FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress, alleging that President Donald Trump fired him to obstruct the investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In 2018, celebrity chef, author and CNN host Anthony Bourdain was found dead in a hotel room in eastern France in what authorities ruled a suicide.
George Floyd’s death during an arrest in Minneapolis in 2020 sparked protests against racial injustice in the US and around the world, and thousands of mourners gathered at a Houston church for a funeral in his memory.
In 2021, Ratko Mladic, the military commander known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the Balkan country’s 1992-95 war, lost his final legal battle when a UN judge upheld his life sentence.
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Actor Millicent Martin is 90 years old.
Actor James Darren is 88 years old.
Singer Nancy Sinatra is 84 years old.
Singer Chuck Negron is 82 years old.
Musician Boz Scaggs is 80 years old.
Author Sara Paretsky is 77 years old.
Actress Sonia Braga is 74 years old.
Actress Kathy Baker is 74 years old.
Rock singer Bonnie Tyler is 73 years old.
Actor Griffin Dunne is 69 years old.
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams is 67 years old.
Actor and director Keenen Ivory Wayans is 66 years old.
Singer Mick Hucknall (Simply Red) is 64 years old.
Musician Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) is 62 years old.
R&B singer Doris Pearson (Five Star) is 58 years old.
Actress Julianna Margulies is 57 years old.
Actor Dan Futterman is 57 years old.
Actor David Sutcliffe is 55 years old.
Actor Kent Faulcon is 54 years old.
R&B singer Nikki Gilbert is 54 years old.
Actress Kelli Williams is 54 years old.
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona) is 54 years old.
Actor Mark Feuerstein is 53 years old.
Contemporary Christian musician Mike Schuetzer (MercyMe) is 49 years old.
Actor Ione Bailey is 48 years old.
Former tennis player Lindsay Davenport is 48 years old.
Rapper Ye (formerly Kanye West) is 47 years old.
Television personality and actress Maria Menounos is 46 years old.
Country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson is 46 years old.
Blues rock musician Derek Trucks (Derek Trucks Band) is 45 years old.
Rock singer Alex Band (The Calling) is 43 years old.
Folk-bluegrass singer and musician Sarah Watkins (Nickel Creek, I’m With Her) is 43 years old.
Former tennis player Kim Clijsters is 41 years old.
Actor Torrey DeVitto is 40 years old.
Tennis player Jelena Ostapenko is 27 years old.
U.S. Olympic track and field gold medalist Asing Mu is 22 years old.
