Local

July 14, 1989: Earl and Bev Thompson of Clarks Grove were featured in the Albert Lea Tribune for their humanitarian efforts in Nepal.

July 10, 1979: Freeborn’s veteran firefighters Art Christiansen, Roger Hendensten, Melvin Young and Marvin Munsch were pictured in the Evening Tribune with their department’s new fire truck.

July 8, 1969: Eight cars of a Rock Island freight train derailed southwest of Albert Lea. The derailment occurred about half a mile from where another train had left the tracks a week earlier. Officials could make no determination as to a cause for either accident.

July 8, 1959: Joe Kvale found a mysterious, unidentified object in his farm field east of Emmons. The object, 19 inches long and 5 inches in diameter, seemed to be hollow and made of metal. Freeborn County Sheriff Everette Stoven could not make any determination as to what the object was and notified U.S. Army officials. The object was then sent to Write-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio for analysis.

 

National

2018: President Donald Trump escalated his threats to punish China for its trade policies, warning in an interview airing on CNBC that he was prepared to impose tariffs on all Chinese imports.

2014: Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 into four refrigerated boxcars in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing condemnation from Western leaders who said the rebels were tampering with the site.

2012: James Holmes opened fire inside a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises,” killing 12 people and wounding 70 others.

1990: Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, one of the court’s most liberal voices, announced he was stepping down.

1982: Irish Republican Army bombs exploded in two London parks, killing eight British soldiers, along with seven horses belonging to the Queen’s Household Cavalry.

1969: Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon after reaching the surface in their Apollo 11 lunar module.

1968: The first International Special Olympics Summer Games, organized by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, were held at Soldier Field in Chicago.

1944: An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb failed as the explosion only wounded the Nazi leader.

1861: The Congress of the Confederate States convened in Richmond, Virginia.

 

— Information from Albert Lea Tribune archives and the Associated Press.