TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Friday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2015. There are 125 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History
On Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager 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 slain three days later.
On this date
1609 — English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reached Delaware Bay.
1862 — The Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as Second Manassas) began in Prince William County, Virginia, during the Civil War; the result was a Confederate victory.
1922 — The first-ever radio commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City; the 10-minute advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid a fee of $100.
1944 — During World War II, German forces in France, surrendered to Allied troops.
1963 — More than 200,000 people listened as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
1988 — Seventy people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany.
Today’s Birthdays
Movie director David Fincher is 53. Country singer Shania Twain is 50. Jefferson Southern Co. employee Timothy L. Loftin of Rome is 48. Actor Jack Black is 46. Country singer LeAnn Rimes is 33. Actress Katie Findlay is 25. Actress Quvenzhane Wallis is 12. Alana Thompson, AKA “Honey Boo Boo,” is 10.
Thought for today
‘The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.’ Elie Wiesel Romanian-born journalist-author