Hello! Somehow we have arrived at the last weekend in August.
We are glad you are here.
Each Saturday we like to take a peek back in the pages of history before we roll out into the day. So, grab your favorite morning sippin’ drink and let’s take a “scroll down memory lane.”
On this day:
In 1907, the United Parcel Service began service in Seattle, Washington.
In 1922, the first radio commercial was broadcast on WEAF in New York City.
In 1955, in a case that injected momentum into the civil rights movement, black Chicago teenager Emmett Till was kidnapped from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi by two white men after he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Till was found murdered three days later.
In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, D.C. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mahalia Jackson and Peter Paul and Mary were among the artists who performed before an estimated 200-thousand civil rights marchers who gathered for the rally.
In 1965, Bob Dylan was booed at a concert in Forest Hills, New York, for playing an electric guitar.
In 1972, Mark Spitz won the first of seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympic Games.
In 1978, actor Robert Shaw died at the age of 51. He was in many films including “Jaws” and “The Sting.”
In 1981, John Hinckley, Jr., pled innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
In 1988, it was the 40th Primetime Emmy Awards. “Thirtysomething,” “The Wonder Years” and Richard Kiley are among the winners.
In 1996, the Democratic Party nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term.
In 1996, Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s troubled 15-year marriage came to an end with the issuing of a divorce decree.
In 2005, residents in New Orleans were forced to evacuate their homes and seek refuge in the city’s Louisiana Superdome as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the state of Louisiana.
In 2009, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office ruled the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson a homicide. The coroner found the singer died of acute propofol intoxication. Propofol is a powerful, hospital-grade sedative. The coroner also remarked that Jackson’s death was also attributed to another drug called lorazepam. Jackson died suddenly on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50.
In 2014, Joan Rivers suffers complications during a routine surgery that would lead to her death days later.
In 2018, fans flocked to Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to pay respects to Aretha Franklin during an open casket viewing. She lied in a 24 carat gold-plated coffin.
In 2019, climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrived in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage.
And that brings us here to our 8.28.2021. So, whatever you have planned for your day, here’s wishing you a day full of moments for your own pages of history.
Thanks for stopping by.
