TODAY IN HISTORY

1955

Emmett Till, a Black teen 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.

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.

2005

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

2009

L.A. County coroner’s office announced that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol and another sedative, lorazepam.

2017

Floodwaters reached the rooflines of singlestory homes as Hurricane Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day; thousands of people had been rescued from the flooding.

Birthdays

Actor Sonny Shroyer is 86. Former MLB manager and player Lou Piniella is 78. Singer Wayne Osmond (The Osmonds) is 70. Actor Jennifer Coolidge is 60. Actor Jack Black is 52. Country singer LeAnn Rimes is 39. Rock singer Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) is 35. Actor Kyle Massey is 30. Actor Quvenzhane Wallis is 18.