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August 28th, 1963:


Martin Luther King, Junior caps a major civil rights march in Washington with a speech for the ages at the Lincoln Memorial.

1968:

In Chicago, police and anti-Vietnam War protesters clash in the streets during the Democratic National Convention.

Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff condemns the police for the violence, when he nominates a fellow senator for president.


But Vice President Hubert Humphrey is the nominee for the deeply-divided Democrats. He narrowly loses to Republican Richard Nixon that fall. 1955:
Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi.

Two white men seize Till after he supposedly whistled at a white woman. He's found brutally murdered days later.

An all-white jury acquits the men of the crime. They later confess in a magazine interview.1996:
In London, a royal split becomes final, as Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana are granted a divorce.

Diana is killed in a Paris car crash a year later. Charles marries long-time love Camilla Parker-Bowles in the following decade. Today in History, August 28th, 2026. The Associated Press

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