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Today's Highlight in History: On August 28th, 1963, 200-thousand people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington DC, where Dr. Martin Luther King Junior delivered his I Have a Dream speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. On this date: In 1609, Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay. In 1749, German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt. In 1916, Italy's declaration of war against Germany took effect during World War One. In 1922, the first-ever radio commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City (the ten-minute advertisement was for the Queensboro Realty Company, which had paid a fee of $100). In 1947, legendary bullfighter Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he died the following day at age 30. In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teen-ager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally murdered three days later. In 1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic national convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president. In 1973, more than 520 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico. In 1981, John W. Hinckley Junior pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Reagan (he was later acquitted by reason of insanity). | 
