TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS MONDAY, JUNE 8, the 160th day of 2020. There are 206 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:
On this date in 1967, during the Six-Day War, 34 American servicemen were killed when Israel attacked the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship, in the Mediterranean Sea. (Israel later said the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.)
In 1864, Abraham Lincoln was nominated for another term as president during the National Union (Republican) Party’s convention in Baltimore.
In 1867, modern American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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 1972, during the Vietnam War, an Associated Press photographer took a picture of a screaming 9-year-old girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, as she ran naked and severely burned from the scene of a South Vietnamese napalm attack.
In 1998, the National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston to be its president.
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.” (The women were pardoned in early August 2009 after a trip to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton.)
In 2018, celebrity chef, author and CNN host Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in eastern France in what authorities determined was a suicide.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Millicent Martin is 86. Singer Nancy Sinatra is 80. Singer Chuck Negron is 78. Musician Boz Scaggs is 76. Country musician Tony Rice and rock singer Bonnie Tyler are 69. Actor-director Keenen Ivory Wayans is 62. Singer Mick Hucknall (Simply Red) is 60. Musician Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran) is 58. Actress Julianna Margulies and actor Dan Futterman are 53. Actor Kent Faulcon, rhythm-andblues singer Nicci Gilbert, actress Kelli Williams and former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., are 50. Rapper Kanye West is 43. TV personality-actress Maria Menounos and country singersongwriter Sturgill Simpson are 42. Blues-rock musician Derek Trucks (The Derek Trucks Band) is 41. Former tennis player Kim Clijsters is 37. Actress Torrey DeVitto is 36.