Today is Saturday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2004. There are 125 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, 200,000 people participate in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr.

Today is Saturday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2004. There are 125 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, 200,000 people participate in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
In 1609, Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. In 1774, Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born saint, is born in New York City. In 1916, Italy's declaration of war against Germany takes effect during World War I. In 1917, 10 suffragists are arrested as they picket the White House. In 1947, legendary bullfighter Manolete is mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he dies the following day at age 30. In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he is found brutally murdered three days later. In 1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clash in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic national convention nominates Hubert H. Humphrey for president. In 1973, more than 520 people die as an earthquake shakes central Mexico. In 1988, 70 people are killed when three Italian stunt planes collide during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany. In 1996, Democrats nominate President Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.
August 28, 1979: The U.S. Economic Development Administration announces the largest steel loan guarantee in its history, a $100 million package that will enable the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. to improve its nine plants in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
At least 10 people are treated at Youngstown hospitals for wounds inflicted with a powerful pellet gun in a series of random sniping incidents over an eight-hour period on the city's South Side and in Struthers.
Talks reopen in Warren aimed at settling a seven-day strike by Trumbull County deputy sheriffs. About 150 area union members join deputies in picketing the county administration building.
August 28, 1964: For the third successive week, steel operations continue at 81 percent in the Youngstown district. U.S. Steel Corp. is operating 12 open hearths and three blast furnaces; Youngstown Sheet & amp; Tube Corp. is operating eight open hearths at Brier Hill and 10 at Campbell, along with four blast furnaces at Campbell.
Gracie Allen, 58, whose scatterbrained comedy helped make Burns and Allen a top act for 34 years, dies after a heart attack.
Sen. Barry Goldwater, Republican presidential candidate, says President Johnson's choice of Hubert Humphrey, a liberal senator from Minnesota, destroys the myth that Johnson runs a conservative administration.
August 28, 1954: Less than 24 hours after a vehement attack by Mayor Frank X. Kryzan on the flourishing numbers racket in Youngstown, a mysterious blast, the fourth in the city in 1954, rocks a Sharon Line grocery store.
Recording star Kitty Kallen sings at Idora Park at a fund-raiser for the Youngstown Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Larry Fontine's orchestra provides the music. Tickets are $1.50.
A sea of people turns out as the weatherman finally smiles on the fourth day of the Columbiana County Fair. Miss Eileen Bradley of North Georgetown is crowned queen of the fair and Donald Kelch of Lisbon is the king.
August 28, 1929: An enrollment increase of 750 is expected at the 18 Youngstown area parish schools, bringing parochial school enrollment to 7,500. The schools range in size from 875 at St. Patrick to 87 at St. Charles in Boardman.
The American dirigible Los Angeles, which was to pass over Youngstown en route to the air show at Cleveland, is driven north by winds, depriving residents of a glimpse of the great ship.
The 100-mph Cord front-wheel drive car, the latest thing in motor cars, arrives at the James S. Taylor salesroom at Covington and Belmont avenues. The car is built by Auburn under patents owned by Harry Miller, who built front-wheel drive cars that won first, second and third prize money in recent years at the Indianapolis 500-mile race.
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