TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY 1963

Over 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.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1917

Ten

suffragists demanding that President Woodrow Wilson support a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote were arrested as they picketed outside the White House.

1964

Two days of race-related rioting erupted in North Philadelphia over a false rumor that white police officers had beaten to death a pregnant Black woman.

1968

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

1996

Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago. The troubled 15year marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree.

2005

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina grew to a monster storm.

2009

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office announced that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol and a powerful sedative lorazepam.

2017

Floodwaters reached the rooflines of single-story homes as Hurricane Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day.