MLK’s Dream Coming True?
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I Have a Dream Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Moe‘uhane: Dream PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Kundu: Drum HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The smoke seen in the dream now rises.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” (Kahil Gibran) WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — MAPA WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Dream Manifesto GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Make a Wish Foundation
August 28, 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gives his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 200,000 marchers, in Washington DC, peacefully demonstrating for civil rights. )(See video below.) x
Today: Barack Obama will accept the Democratic Party nomination for the 44th U.S. president in Denver, Colorado. He will speak to a crowd of 80,000 at Invesco Field where the Denver Broncos play. Obama will be preceded by singers Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and John Legend, then former VP, winner of the 2000 presidential popular vote & Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore. Read more in the Denvert Post >
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — August 28th
1565: Spanish explorers land in Florida to establish the first permanent European settlement in America (they name their settlement for St. Augustine)
1609: Henry Hudson discovers and explores Delaware Bay for the Netherlands
1655: New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bar persons of the Jewish faith from military service
1830: “Tom Thumb”, the first passenger carrying locomotive, starts running
1957: Senator Thurmond begins a 24-hour filibuster against the civil rights bill
1981: John W. Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
1996 Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce after 15 years of marriage.
2002: Prosecutors indict 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 orders everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
1609: Henry Hudson discovers and explores Delaware Bay for the Netherlands
1655: New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bar persons of the Jewish faith from military service
1830: “Tom Thumb”, the first passenger carrying locomotive, starts running
1957: Senator Thurmond begins a 24-hour filibuster against the civil rights bill
1981: John W. Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
1996 Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce after 15 years of marriage.
2002: Prosecutors indict 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 orders everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
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BORN ON THIS DAY — August 28th
1749: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher
1828: Leo Tolstoy, novelist
1908: Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist/writer
1916: C Wright Mills, sociologist/writer
1930: Ben Gazzara, actor
1940: William Cohen, (Sen-R-Me)
1958: Scott Hamilton, figure skating champion
1965: Shania Twain, country singer
1969: Jack Black, comedian/actor
1982: Lee Ann Rimes, country singer
1749: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher
1828: Leo Tolstoy, novelist
1908: Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist/writer
1916: C Wright Mills, sociologist/writer
1930: Ben Gazzara, actor
1940: William Cohen, (Sen-R-Me)
1958: Scott Hamilton, figure skating champion
1965: Shania Twain, country singer
1969: Jack Black, comedian/actor
1982: Lee Ann Rimes, country singer
