Michelle Carr Crowe’s Five Favorite Stories From This Date August 28
By Michelle Carr Crowe, Cupertino real estate agent
When I take a break from selling houses in San Jose, Cupertino and Santa Clara, Calif., I love learning new facts. Here are five favorite tales from this date in history, August 28, courtesy of Wikipedia.
· 1867 – The United States takes possession of the unoccupied Midway Atoll, which will come to play a huge place in 
world war history ("The Battle of Midway".
· 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, and his open casket revealing his savagely beaten face galvanizes the American Civil Rights Movement.
· 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
· 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his powerfully stirring I Have a Dream speech.
· 1996 – In the end of the storybook romance of Great Britain, Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
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 30-second sample from "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963
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