*On this date in 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was nearly fatally stabbed to death.
While signing copies of his first book Stride Toward Freedom, a woman named Izola Ware Curry stabbed King with a letter opener in Blumsteins Department store in New York City.
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