Today In History
What happened this day in history?
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Today in History: August 28
Today in History: August 28: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech; Emmett Till was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi, following an accusation that he had whistled at a white woman; U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond from South Carolina embarked on the longest speaking filibuster in Senate history.
Today in History: August 27
Today in History: August 27, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted, Barack Obama was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention, “Mary Poppins” made its world premiere in Los Angeles, California., Hurricane Irene made landfall in the United States, and more….
Today in History: August 26
August 26: On this day in history: in 1944 French Gen. Charles de Gaulle led a victory march through Paris; the 1968 opening of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago; John Paul I became Pope in 1978, ….. and more
Today in History: August 25
Today in History: August 25, President Woodrow Wilson enacted the National Park Service Organic Act, Richard E. Byrd embarked from Hoboken, New Jersey for Antarctica, Neil Armstrong Passed Away at 82, and more . . .
Today in History: August 24
On August 24, Hurricane Andrew made landfall in 1992, In 1814 British troops set fire to the White House. In 1991 Ukraine declared independence. Declaration of Independence for Ukraine.
Today in History: August 23
August 23: On this day in history Cesar Chavez led the Salad Bowl Strike, Japan entered WW1, a Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf, a magnitude-5.8 earthquake struck near Mineral, Virginia, and more . . .
Today in History: August 22
The schooner America wins race off the English coast. Haitian Revolution of 1791. San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers get into a fight. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is shot.
Today In History August 21
On this day in history, a violent slave rebellion began in 1831. Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas began their debates. 2010, saw the beginning of operations at Iran’s first nuclear power plant,,
Today In History August 20
August 20 In History: Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, Soviet suppression of ‘Prague Spring’ in Czechoslovakia, End of U.S. Civil War, Trotsky is shot, Postal worker goes postal