TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – AUG 28
1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1619 Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor. His policy of “One church, one king” was his way of trying to outlaw Protestantism. 1676 Indian chief King Philip, also known as Metacom, is killed by English soldiers, ending the war between Indians and colonists.
1907 “American Messenger Company” was started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The company’s name was later changedto “United Parcel Service.”
1941 The German U-boat U-570 is captured by the British and renamed Graph
1945 Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung arrives in Chunking to confer with Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek in a futile effort to avert civil war.
1955 Emmett 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.
1956 The price of milk is to be raised to 27 cents per quart for delivery and 24 cents per quart when purchased at a shop.
1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.
1968 Clash between police and anti-war demonstrators during Democratic Party’s National Convention in Chicago.
1979 Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb explodes under bandstand in Brussels’ Great Market as British Army musicians prepare for a performance; four British soldiers wounded.
1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to attempting to assassinate Pres. Ronald Reagan.
1981 The 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.
1986 US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth given 365-year prison term for spying for USSR.
1990 Iraq declared Kuwait to be its 19th province and renamed Kuwait City al-Kadhima.
1996 After four years of separation, Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife, Princess Diana, formally divorce.
1998 The Pakistani prime minister created new Islamic order and legal system based on the Koran.
2002 WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. are indicted on charges of criminal fraud in connection with the company’s collapse.
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