AP Highlight in History: On Aug. 28, 1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff: "Gestapo tactics"
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley defends police
"The whole word is watching"
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On this date in:
1828
Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born near Tula.
1917
Ten suffragists were arrested as they picketed the White House.
1922
The first radio commercial aired on WEAF in New York City. It was a 10-minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Co., which had paid $100.
1947
Legendary bullfighter Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he died the following day.
1955
Emmett Till, an African-American teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by two white men after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. He was found murdered three days later.
1963
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech during a civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
"I have a dream"
"Sisters and brothers"
"Free at last"
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1981
John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
1996
Democrats nominated President Bill Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago.
1996
Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana were divorced after 15 years of marriage.
2002
Prosecutors indicted WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. in connection with the company's collapse. Both later pleaded guilty to criminal fraud.
2005
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
