| On this day, August 28th
It was on this day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech in Washington D.C. during a civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial.
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| On this day, August 27th
Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859 becoming the world's first successful oil well.
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| On this day, August 26th
A man is given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain in 1994.
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| On this day, August 25th
The White House is destroyed and Washington, D.C. burned in 1814 during the War of 1812.
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| On this day, August 24th
Mark David Chapman is sentenced for murdering John Lennon and Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling. These are a couple of events to take place on this day throughout history.
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| On this day, August 23rd
Two Italian anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, are executed on this day in 1927 after a controversial murder trial.
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| On this day, August 22nd
Someone steals the Mona Lisa from The Louvre in Paris on this day in 1911.
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| On this day, August 21st
Aloha! Hawaii became the 50th state today in 1959.
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| On this day, August 20th
Some music firsts today as Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in 1812 and The Rolling Stones release Satisfaction in Britain in 1965.
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| On this day, August 19th
Afghanistan celebrates its independence from the United Kingdom in 1919 today.
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