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| 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. |
