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UPI Almanac for Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016

On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before more than 200,000 people gathered for a "Freedom March" in Washington.

By United Press International
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famed "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on August 28, 1963. The speech galvanized the nation's civil rights movements and led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. UPI File Photo
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his famed "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, on August 28, 1963. The speech galvanized the nation's civil rights movements and led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act. UPI File Photo | License Photo

Today is Sunday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2016 with 125 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Venus, Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Neptune.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include German poet/novelist/dramatist Johann von Goethe in 1749; Elizabeth Ann Seton, first U.S.-born saint of the Roman Catholic Church, in 1774; French actor Charles Boyer in 1899; psychologist Bruno Bettelheim in 1903; actor Nancy Kulp in 1921; actor/dancer Donald O'Connor in 1925; actor Ben Gazzara in 1930; former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen in 1940 (age 76); former baseball Manager Lou Piniella in 1943 (age 73); singer/actor David Soul in 1943 (age 73); actor Daniel Stern in 1957 (age 59); Olympic gold medal ice skater Scott Hamilton in 1958 (age 58); actor Emma Samms in 1960 (age 56); singer Shania Twain in 1965 (age 51); actor Billy Boyd in 1968 (age 48); actor Jack Black in 1969 (age 47); actor Jason Priestley in 1969 (age 47); figure skater Todd Eldredge in 1971 (age 45); Olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans in 1971 (age 45); singer LeAnn Rimes in 1982 (age 34); Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured in 2006 and held captive by Palestinian militants for more than five years, in 1986 (age 30); actor Armie Hammer in 1986 (age 30).

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On this date in history:

In 1922, a New York City realty company paid $100 for the first radio commercial, on station WEAF.

In 1955, while visiting family members in Money, Miss., 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African-American from Chicago, was slain for supposedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His alleged killers were acquitted.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before more than 200,000 people gathered for a "Freedom March" in Washington.

In 1968, the Democratic Party nominated Hubert Humphrey for president as thousands of anti-Vietnam War demonstrators battled police in the streets and parks of Chicago.

In 1986, Soviet spy Jerry Whitworth was sentenced to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000.

In 1990, a tornado struck Will County in Illinois, southwest of Chicago, killing at least 27 people and injuring more than 350.

In 1996, after four years of separation, Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana, were formally divorced.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina picked up strength as it roared toward the U.S. Gulf Coast, reaching Category 5 status, with winds of almost 150 miles an hour, touching off one of the largest evacuations in U.S. history.

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In 2008, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumed Republican nominee for president, chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate.

In 2009, the June 27 death of entertainer Michael Jackson was ruled a homicide by drug overdose after his personal physician admitted giving him the powerful anesthetic propofol and the sedative lorazepam on the day of his death.

In 2011, Tony Tan was elected the seventh president of Singapore after more than 83 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots.

In 2012, delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., chose Mitt Romney as the party's presidential nominee.

In 2013, U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan, who admitted to killing 13 people and wounding many others at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, was sentenced to death.

In 2014, a World Health Organization report said an Ebola epidemic had killed more than 1,552 people in four West African countries: Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.


A thought for the day: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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