Today's Highlight in History:
On August 28th, 1963, 200-thousand people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington DC, where Dr. Martin Luther King Junior delivered his I Have a Dream speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
On this date:
In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
In 1749, German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt.
In 1916, Italy's declaration of war against Germany took effect during World War One.
In 1922, the first-ever radio commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City (the ten-minute advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Company, which had paid a fee of $100).
In 1947, legendary bullfighter Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he died the following day at age 30.
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally murdered 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.
In 1973, more than 520 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico.
In 1981, John W. Hinckley Junior pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Reagan (he was later acquitted by reason of insanity).
In 1996, the troubled 15-year marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree.
Ten years ago: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, saying he sympathized with his foreign captives, pledged to free detained women and children.
Five years ago: Chase Manhattan and Chemical Banking announced a $10 billion deal to create the biggest bank in the nation. A mortar shell tore through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing 38 people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs. California Governor Pete Wilson formally entered the GOP presidential race.
One year ago: Three crewmen aboard the Mir space station returned safely to Earth after bidding farewell to the 13-year-old Russian orbiter. (The Russian government had planned to abandon Mir this year because of a shortage of funds, but has since extended its mission.)
Mother dies from heat
Glass pyramid rises in Hebei
Duck neck eating contest
Toilets converted into restaurant
Millionaire turns to monk
Eat from a paper hotpot
Drinking basins of beer
Water lily leaves torn by coins
Proposal with lychees
Dining in the sky in Kunming
Cleaner runs 225 km in a day
'Marry me, Chen Qiaorong!'
Punishment for traffic violations
Twisted mail boxes prevail
Activists rescue dogs in truck
Square dancing rocks school
Overwhelming turtle 'plague'
Dinosaur eggs seized
Massive umbrella sets world record
Veteran searches for friends
Man drove 'van convertible'
Pet dog turns out to be fox
Train pulls out of sidewalk
Scan the QR code to find class
The pole-dancing grandma
Graduate buys house for parents
Man arrested for phone case
Car crash for divorce
Climbing trees for sport
Cab drivers start band
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