1963: Civil Rights March on Washington.
The civil rights movement in the United States reached one of its climaxes on this day when Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders organized the March on Washington, addressing problems of racial equality. An interracial assembly of more than 200,000 gathered in the nation's capital, in the shadow of the (Abraham) Lincoln Memorial, to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. There King delivered his famous I Have A Dream speech.
More events on this day
| 1993: | | The spacecraft Galileo took pictures of the asteroid Ida. |
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| 1914: | | The first major engagement of the British and German navies during World War I occurred at the Battle of Helgoland Bight. |
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| 1850: | | Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin was performed for the first time, at Weimar, Germany. |
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| 1793: | | The Siege of Toulon in the French Revolutionary Wars began. |
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| 476: | | The Western Roman Empire fell as Emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the German warrior Odoacer. |
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