TODAY IN HISTORY

On June 8, 1845, Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tennessee.

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 1978, a jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled the so-called “Mormon will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery.

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.”

In 2018, celebrity chef, author and CNN host Anthony Bourdain was found dead in his hotel room in eastern France.