TODAY IN HISTORY

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Aug. 28, 1963

More than 200,000people 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.

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1609

English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reached presentday Delaware Bay.

1862

The Second Battle of Bull Run began in Prince William County, Va., during the Civil War; the result was a Confederate victory.

1916

Italy declared war on Germany during World War I.

1941

Japan’s ambassador to the U.S., Kichisaburo Nomura, presented a note to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Japan’s prime minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, expressing a desire for improved relations.

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.

1968

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

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.

1996

Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term.

2005

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