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Thread #104378   Message #2710684
Posted By: Amos
28-Aug-09 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: BS: Random Traces From All Over
Subject: RE: BS: Random Traces From All Over
Thanks, gents!

Also from the NYT:

On Aug. 28, 1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

On Aug. 28, 1828, Leo Tolstoy, the Russian author considered one of history's greatest novelists was born., Following his death on Nov. 7, 1910, his obituary appeared in The Times.

On August 28, 1886, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a scandal involving the Department of Public Works in New York City.

1609           English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reached present-day Delaware Bay.

1828            Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.

1917           Ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.

1922            The first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City. It was a 10-minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid $100.