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Today is Sunday, Aug. 28, the 241st day of 2016. There are 125 days left in the year.

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

1862: The Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as Second Manassas) begins in Prince William County, Va., during the Civil War; the result would be a Confederate victory.

1916: Italy declares war on Germany during World War I.

1922: The first-ever radio commercial airs on station WEAF in New York City; the 10-minute advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Co., which paid a fee of $100.

1941: Japan’s ambassador to the U.S., Kichisaburo Nomura, presents a note to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the Japanese prime minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, expressing a desire for improved relations; Roosevelt responds that he considered the note a step forward.

1945: The Allies begin occupying Japan at the end of World War II.

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 would be found brutally slain three days later.

1963: As more than 200,000 people listen, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1968: Police and anti-war demonstrators clash in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominates Hubert H. Humphrey for president.

1972: Mark Spitz of the United States wins the first two of his seven gold medals at the Munich Olympics, finishing first in the 200-meter butterfly and anchoring the 400-meter freestyle relay. The Soviet women gymnasts win the team all-around.

1988: Seventy people are killed when three Italian stunt planes collide during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany.

1990: An F5 tornado strikes the Chicago area, killing 29 people.

1996: Democrats nominate President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.

The troubled 15-year marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ends with the issuing of a divorce decree.

2006: Prosecutors in Colorado abruptly drop their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests have failed to put him at the crime scene despite his insistence that he killed the 6-year-old beauty queen in 1996.

President George W. Bush visits the Gulf Coast on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Columbus, Ga., beats Kawaguchi City, Japan, 2-1 to win the Little League World Series championship game.

2011: A suicide bomber blows himself up inside Baghdad’s largest Sunni mosque, killing 29 people during prayers.

California returns the Little League World Series title to the United States with a 2-1 victory over Hamamatsu City, Japan.

Katy Perry wins three MTV Video Music Awards, including video of the year, for the inspirational clip “Firework”; during the broadcast, Beyonc announces she is pregnant with her first child (Blue Ivy Carter was born in January 2012).

2015: President Barack Obama compares tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the Iranian nuclear deal to a family feud, and says in a webcast with Jewish Americans that he expects quick improvements in ties between the longtime allies once the accord is implemented.

A jury in Concord, N.H., acquits Owen Labrie, a prep school graduate, of rape but convicts him of committing lesser sex offenses against a 15-year-old freshman girl in a case that exposes a tradition in which seniors competed to see how many younger students they could have sex with.

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1991: Brookfield Township police continue a search for “Cleopatra,” an 81/2-foot python that escaped from its owner’s Nellie Street apartment. Owner Michael Mills, 20, says police don’t need the rifles they are carrying because the snake is very mild-tempered, plays with children all the time and doesn’t bite.

U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says he has a plan to save the Youngstown Municipal Airport, but he’s not ready to provide details.

Erika Alden of Petersburg wins rocker Axl Rose’s $400,000 condo on the Sunset Strip, which was the grand prize in MTV’s “Evict Axl Rose Contest.”

1976: Dr. Stanley W. Olsen, provost of Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, tells 550 new graduates of Youngstown State University that education is the work of a lifetime, the time spent in college is only the preparation.

Chuparkoff, Maxin, Sowinski and Prassinos law firm is buying the Metropolitan Savings & Loan Co.’s former downtown office building at 42 N. Phelps St.

A special added attraction to the Sunday program at the Columbiana County Fair is a vintage car race featuring racers from the 1920s and ‘30s.

1966: Mahoning County public and parochial schools open to nearly 80,000 pupils, an increase of 1,500 students over the previous year, a reflection of the area’s increasing population.

A new campaign is under way to enlist full Ohio support behind the proposed Lake Erie-Ohio River Waterway. Kenneth Lloyd, project secretary, says the 120-mile canal would benefit all industry and labor in Ohio.

Strouss budget stores sales have tots’ two-piece snow suits for $9, ladies knit suits for $11.99 and men’s and boys’ famous maker shoes for $6.

Sidney S. Moyer, prominent Youngstown businessman, is named chairman of a levy drive for a Mahoning County community college.

1941: Prices for accommodations at Youngstown’s three major hotels will be increased by 10 percent in September. Hotel managers say they’ve seen a 27 percent increase in operating costs in the past year.

A scale model of the new continuous weld pipe mill will be shown at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube annual picnic at Idora Park. Made by workers at the pattern and tool room machine shop, the model has been exhibited at industrial conventions.

McKelvey’s August sale of furniture has exceptional buys on three-piece bedroom suites. Solid maple ranges from $9 to $179 and mahogany from $104 to $199.

Mahoning County Sheriff Ralph Elser and seven deputy sheriffs raid three alleged disorderly houses in downtown Youngstown, arresting 19 women.