Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is Aug. 28 More than 200,000 civil rights protesters, led by Martin Luther King Jr., staged an orderly "Freedom March" in Washington, D.C., on this date in 1963. It was at this rally that King delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech. Advertisement Things were far from orderly on this date in 1968 in Chicago, as the Democratic Party nominated Hubert Humphrey for president. Outside, on the streets and in the parks of the Windy City, thousands of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators battled police. It was during this time that Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley made his famous comment that, "the police are here to preserve disorder." Broadcasters realized radio could earn profits from the sale of advertising time on this date in 1922, when the Queenboro Reality Corp. of Jackson Heights, N.Y., paid $100 for the first radio commercial. The spot -- promoting Hawthorne Court, an apartment complex in Queens -- aired on New York radio station WEAF. At least 27 people were killed and more than 350 injured on this date in 1990 when a tornado roared through Will County, Ill., southwest of Chicago. Advertisement And, in 1996, after four years of separation, Prince Charles and Princess Diana were formally divorced. We now return you to the present, already in progress.
