Associated Press

On June 8, A.D. 632, the prophet Muhammad died in Medina.

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.

In 1968, authorities announced the capture of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1978, a jury in 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 2020, thousands of mourners gathered at a church in Houston for a service for George Floyd.