Today is Thursday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2008. There are 125 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Thursday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2008. 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, 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 1907, United Parcel Service has its beginnings as the American Messenger Company of Seattle. In 1947, legendary bullfighter Manolete is mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he was 30. In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager 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 was found brutally slain 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 600 people die as an earthquake shakes central Mexico. In 1983, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, reportedly despondent over the death of his wife and the rising casualty toll of Israeli troops in Lebanon, announces his resignation. 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 1995, a mortar shell tears through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing some three dozen people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs.

August 28, 1983: Dr. John Coffelt, president of Youngstown State University, says there will be no increase in tuition or fees at the university for the 1984-85 school year, the first time in 10 years that there will be no increase.

City officials declare the Chukas Building on Phelps Street adjacent to City Hall a nuisance and “imminent danger” and will seek bids for its demolition. The building once housed the Youngstown Billiard Parlor and was the site of an illegal numbers operation.

Some 1,200 to 1,400 Youngs-towners have invested in a Canadian gold mine at Rouyn, Canada, about 750 miles north of Youngstown. The Augmitto Explorations Ltd. stock opened at 20 cents and rose to $1.80 (Canadian).

August 28, 1968: Two gunmen rob the cashier’s office at St. Elizabeth Hospital for $154.

Youngstown delegates to the Democratic National Convention had a bird’s-eye view from the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago of antiwar demonstrators outside the Democratic National Convention.

Peter Ceymour, 39, who was injured when a wall collapsed during demolition of the old Sirbu building at South Avenue and Front Street, dies of his injuries in South Side Hospital.

August 28, 1958: The 1958 Canfield Fair opens its five day run, featuring appearances by Gabby Hayes, The Lennon Sisters, the June Taylor Dancers and Dennis Day. Grandstand admissions range from 75 cents in the bleachers to $2.75 for box seats.

Don Robinson, Boardman’s chief constable, tells the Boardman Rotary Club that the police department would be better able to serve Boardman if it were incorporated.

Youngstown police arrest 12 youths at Wick Park after receiving a tip that youth from the North and East sides were going to meet at the park for a “rumble.”

August 28, 1933: The Most Rev. Edward A. Mooney, Youngstown native and apostolic delegate to Japan, is designated bishop of Rochester, N.Y. The diocese is slightly larger than that of Cleveland, with a Catholic population of 207,943, 160 parishes and 265 priests.

Infantile paralysis claims the life of Robert Carlson, 12, of 219 E. Second St., Girard. There are 18 children in the district under quarantine, but this was the first death.

An Alliance man, Dr. Charles Armstrong, a surgeon with the U.S. Public Health Service, is assigned to St. Louis, Mo., where an epidemic of encephalitis (sleeping sickness) has claimed 39 lives.