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plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into New York's East River. However, there are doubts about whether the dive actually took place.
• In 1888, author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago.
• In 1914, Austria-Hungary issued a list of demands to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to World War I.
• In 1945, French Marshal Henri Petain (ahn-REE' pay-TAN'), who had headed the Vichy (vee-shee) government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted.
• In 1951, Petain died in prison.
• In 1952, Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launched a successful coup against King Farouk I.
• In 1967, a week of deadly race-related rioting that claimed 43 lives erupted in Detroit.
• In 1977, a jury in Washington, D.C., convicted 12 Hanafi (hah-NAH'-fee) Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.
• In 1986, Britain's Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London. The couple divorced in 1996.
• In 1997, the search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace (JAH'-nee vur-SAH'-chee) and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, an apparent suicide.
• In 2011, singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.
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• Ten years ago: A new audiotape purported to be from toppled dictator Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to resist the U.S. occupation. Massachusetts' attorney general issued a report saying clergy members and others in the Boston Archdiocese probably had sexually abused more than 1,000 people over a period of six decades. New York City Councilman James Davis was shot to death by political rival Othniel Askew (AHTH'-neel AS'-kyoo) at City Hall; a police officer shot and killed Askew.
• Five years ago: Hurricane Dolly slammed into the South Texas coast with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph. Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama toured Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, laying a wreath in memory of the 6 (Continued on page 34)
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