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Monday, August 28, 2006


8/28/06
Today seemed so long. Hopefully it's just Monday. Anyways, agian I'm staying up to watch the Reds, this time play the Dodgers. Hopefully, the Reds will win.

DID YOU KNOW...
...that Haraldskaer Woman who lived in 540 BC is one of the best preserved bog people ever discovered, and forensic analysis reveals her last meal was blackberries and millet?

TODAY IN HISTORY
475 - Flavius Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.
1565 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
1845 - The first issue of Scientific American was published.
1850 - The romantic opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner was first performed in Weimar, Germany.
1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.


Crowds surrounding the Reflecting Pool, during the August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. An estimated 200,000 to 500,000 people participated in the march, which featured Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. It was a major factor leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The march was also condemned by the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X, who termed it the "farce on Washington".

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