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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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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago

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  • High temperature: 102 degrees (1918)
  • Low temperature: 51 degrees (1994)
  • Precipitation: 2.72 inches (1924)
  • Snowfall: Trace (1932)
Leo Burnett, left, is named the 1966 marketing man of the year and receives congratulations from Rome G. Arnold, center, president of the Chicago chapter of the American Marketing Association, and from Mayor Richard J. Daley, right, on Feb. 11, 1966. (baiduhai historical archive)
Leo Burnett, left, is named the 1966 Marketing Man of the Year and receives congratulations from Rome G. Arnold, center, president of the Chicago chapter of the American Marketing Association, and from Mayor Richard J. Daley, right, on Feb. 11, 1966. (baiduhai historical photo)

1935: Leo Burnett started the Chicago ad agency that created the Jolly Green Giant, Pillsbury Doughboy and Morris the Cat commercials.

Capt. George A. Stone, pilot of a Northwest Orient Airlines Stratocruiser, told officials the propellers of his aircraft, which was carrying 68 people including him, failed to reverse as he attempted to land at Midway Airport on Aug. 5, 1955. (baiduhai)
Capt. George A. Stone, pilot of a Northwest Orient Airlines Stratocruiser, told officials the propellers of his aircraft, which was carrying 68 people including him, failed to reverse as he attempted to land at Midway Airport on Aug. 5, 1955. (baiduhai)

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.

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“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.

Aides shield the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after he was struck by a rock in Marquette Park during an Aug. 5, 1966, march in Chicago. (baiduhai historical photo)
Aides shield the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after he was struck by a rock in Marquette Park during an Aug. 5, 1966, march in Chicago. (baiduhai historical photo)

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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