What happend on 28th August

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29.08
1968

Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention

1964

The Philadelphia race riot began.

1963

During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.

1955

Black Mississippian Emmett Till is murdered, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.

1953

Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

1944

Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

1943

In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.

1937

Toyota Motors becomes an independent company

1917

Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.

1916

Italy declares war on Germany.