August 28th, 1963:
Martin Luther King Jr. capped a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial.
Martin Luther King Jr.: I have a dream: My four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
1968:
In Chicago, police and anti-Vietnam War protesters clashed in the streets during the Democratic National Convention.
Connecticut senator Abraham Ribicoff condemned the police for the violence when he nominated a fellow senator for President.
But Vice President Hubert Humphrey was the nominee for the deeply divided Democrats. He ended up losing narrowly to Republican Richard Nixon in the fall.
1955:
Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi.
Two white men seized Till after he supposedly whistled at a white woman.
He was found brutally murdered days later.
An all-White jury acquitted the men of the crime.
They later confessed in a magazine interview.
1996:
In London, a royal split became official, as Prince Charles and Princess Diana were granted a divorce.
Diana was killed in a Paris car crash a year later.
Charles married longtime love Camilla Parker Bowles in the following decade.
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