Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 28, 1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Sound Bites: "I have a dream", "Sisters and brothers", "Free at last".On this date:
Four hundred years ago, in 1609, English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reached present-day Delaware Bay.In 1749, German poet, novelist and dramatist Johann von Goethe was born.
In 1774, Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint, was born in New York City.
In 1828, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
In 1907, United Parcel Service had its beginnings as the American Messenger Company of Seattle.
In 1917, ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.
In 1922, the first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City. It was a 10-minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid $100.
In 1947, legendary bullfighter Manolete died after being gored during a fight in Linares, Spain; he was 30.
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he 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.
More Sound Bites: Sen. Abraham Ribicoff: "Gestapo tactics", Chicago Mayor Richard Daley defends police, "The whole word is watching"
In 1973, more than 600 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico.
In 1981, John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
In 1983, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announced his resignation.
In 1988, more than 50 people were killed in the Philippines in an unsuccessful coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino. Seventy people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany.
More Sound Bites: Sen. Abraham Ribicoff: "Gestapo tactics", Chicago Mayor Richard Daley defends police, "The whole word is watching"
In 1973, more than 600 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico.
In 1981, John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
In 1983, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announced his resignation.
In 1988, more than 50 people were killed in the Philippines in an unsuccessful coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino. Seventy people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany.In 1995, a mortar shell tore through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing some three dozen people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.
In 1996, Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago. Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana were divorced after 15 years of marriage. [Coincidence? We think not. — Ed.]
Ten years ago: Three crewmen aboard the Mir space station returned safely to Earth after bidding farewell to the 13-year-old Russian orbiter.
In 2002, prosecutors indicted WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. in connection with the company's collapse. Both later pleaded guilty to criminal fraud.
Five years ago: Islamic militants claiming to be holding two French journalists in Iraq gave France 48 hours to overturn the law banning the wearing of Islamic head scarves in schools. (The reporters, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, were released in December 2004.) U. S. Secretary of State Colin ["Chickenshit"] Powell canceled plans to attend closing ceremonies at the Summer Olympics in Athens after protests against U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. men's basketball team won the bronze, the 100th U.S. medal of the Athens Games.
In 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
In 2006, U.S. schoolteacher John Mark Karr was returned to the United States to face charges of killing JonBenet Ramsey, the 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen 10 years earlier and whose slaying he had admitted. But the case against him quickly crumbled when DNA tests showed he wasn't involved.
In 2007, U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, admitted he pleaded guilty without consulting a lawyer to disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport men's room incident in June but insisted he had done nothing wrong.
One year ago: Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd at Invesco Field in Denver, Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, promising what he called a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush." Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee for president, chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. Former U.S. Marine Jose Luis Nazario Jr., accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter in Riverside, Calif. As part of a $3 billion deal, China agreed to provide Iraq with technical advisers, workers and equipment to develop the Ahdab oil field.
5 comments:
Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton is 51.
No mention of Brian Boitano, I see. Elitist bastards
Copy & Paste Editor Declares:
AP: Elitist bastards, if it isn't your birthday!
Like they couldn't say "birthday of some skating guy, who is not as good as BB'. is this too much to ask??? No.
Glassy-Eyed Telebision Editor, who will watch almost anything, & considers much of humanoid existence to be valid only if it's a subset of tee vee (And what isn't?) draws the line just before figger skating.
I am seriously in tune with you there. Hardly any of them fall over anymore.
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