This week: Accused witch hanged in first Salem trial, Mandela sentenced to life in prison

“This Week” looks back at the key events of this week in history.

June 8

632 AD: The Prophet Muhammad dies in Medina.

1864, Abraham Lincoln is nominated for another term as president at the National Union Party (Republican) convention in Baltimore.

1867: Modern American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.

1968: Authorities announce the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2018: Anthony Bourdain, famous chef, author and CNN host, is found dead in his hotel room in eastern France.

June 9

1692: Bridget Bishop is hanged in the first execution of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts.

1732: James Oglethorpe receives a charter from British King George II to found the colony of Georgia.

1870: Author Charles Dickens dies at Gad's Hill Place, England.

1915: Guitarist, songwriter and inventor Les Paul is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

June 10

1935: Alcoholics Anonymous is 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., escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison, Tennessee, with six others; he was recaptured three days later.

1983: The British Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, win a decisive electoral victory.

June 11

1509: King Henry VIII of England marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.

1770: Captain James Cook, commander of the British Endeavor, “discovered” the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia by running across it.

1776: The Continental Congress formed a committee to draft a declaration of independence calling for liberation from Great Britain.

1955: More than 80 people are killed during the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, the worst disaster in motorsport.

1962: Three prisoners from Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, stage an escape, leaving the island on a makeshift raft; they were never found or heard from.

June 12

1630: The Englishman John Winthrop, at the head of a fleet transporting Puritan refugees, arrives at the Massachusetts Bay colony, of which he becomes governor.

1776: Virginia's colonial legislature passes a Bill of Rights.

1942: Anne Frank, a Jewish girl of German descent living in Amsterdam, receives a newspaper for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family go into hiding to escape the Nazis.

1963: Civil rights leader Medgar Evers, 37, is shot and killed outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

1964: Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison with seven others, including Walter Sisulu, for sabotage against the apartheid regime.

1987: President Ronald Reagan urges Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”

1978: David Berkowitz is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of the six .44-caliber “Son of Sam” murders that terrified New Yorkers.

1994: Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are killed outside his Los Angeles home.