Friday, August 27, 2010

Today in History

- Today is Saturday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2010. There are 125 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

It is Aug. 28, 1963, 200.000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, DC, M Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Delivered at his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

It is this date:

In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson sea & His ship, the Half Moon reached present-day Delaware Bay.

In 1774, Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint, was born in New York City.

In 1910, the Kingdom of Montenegro was proclaimed.

In 1947, Legendary bull fighter Manolete at last on Being gored During a fight in Linares, Spain; they was 30

In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from Chicago, was abducted from at his uncle's home in Money, Miss. by two white men on, they had supposedly whistled at a white woman, who was found brutally slain three days later.

In 1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

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