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Today in Chicago History: The Rev. Martin Luther King felled by rock during Marquette Park protest
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 5, according to the Tribune's archives.
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1935: Leo Burnett started the Chicago ad agency that created the Jolly Green Giant, Pillsbury Doughboy and Morris the Cat commercials.
1955: Capt. George A. Stone, the pilot of a Northwest Orient Airlines Stratocruiser, was credited when all 68 people survived a crash landing at Chicago's Midway Airport. The crash occurred in the same area as a Braniff International Airways on July 17, 1955.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Plane crashes that stunned our city'Stone told officials of Northwest Orient Airlines that the propellers of the plane failed to reverse as he made a normal landing after a flight from Minneapolis,' the Tribune reported.
1966: During a march in Marquette Park to protest racial inequality in housing, Martin Luther King Jr. was struck by a rock.
'I've been in many demonstrations all across the South, but I can say that I have never seen — even in Mississippi and Alabama — mobs as hostile and as hate-filled as I've seen here in Chicago,' King told reporters afterward.
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