1609
\nHenry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.<\/p>\n
1850
\nRichard Wagner’s opera, Lohengrin, premiered at Weimar, Germany.<\/p>\n
1922
\nThe first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.<\/p>\n
1955
\nEmmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.<\/p>\n
1963
\nDr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.<\/p>\n
1968
\nAnti-Vietnam war protesters and police clashed in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.<\/p>\n
1981
\nThe Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi’s sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.<\/p>\n
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/p>\n
1749\u20131832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, b. Frankfurt.<\/p>\n
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton<\/p>\n
religious leader (1774)<\/p>\n
Charles Boyer<\/p>\n
actor (1899)<\/p>\n
Bruno Bettelheim<\/p>\n
psychologist (1903)<\/p>\n
Roger Tory Peterson<\/p>\n
ornithologist (1908)<\/p>\n
Robertson Davies<\/p>\n
writer (1913)<\/p>\n
Jason Priestley<\/p>\n
actor (1969)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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