On this day: Martin Luther King delivered his “I have a dream” speech in 1963

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug. 28: 1910 – Montenegro proclaimed its independence from the Ottoman Empire, with Nicholas I as ruler. 1963 – Martin Luther King delivered his “I have a dream” speech to 200,000 civil rights demonstrators who had marched on Washington. 1988 – Seventy people were […]

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