ON THIS DAY

TODAY: Friday August 28, 2020

57 years ago (1963)

Martin Luther King made his historic “I have a dream speech” at Washington DC’s Lincoln Memorial.

The civil rights leader spoke in front of a crowd of 250,000 supporters who had marched on the US capital to demand an end to racial segregation in the south.

41 years ago (1979)

We revealed Lord Louis Mountbatten, 79, had been murdered by the IRA near his holiday home in Ireland.

The former “Admiral of the Fleet, last Viceroy of India and hero of Burma” died when a 50lb bomb hidden on board his fishing boat Shadow V, moored at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, was detonated by remote control.

His grandson Nicholas, Nicholas’s grandmother, the 83-year-old Dowager Lady Brabourne, and a crew member also died.

26 years ago (1994)

Shops had opened in Britain for the first time on a Sunday on August 26, following the relaxation of the Sunday trading laws.

Large stores could trade for six hours between 10am and 6pm while small shops could stay open all day.