Good morning. It's August 28th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — August 28
🎀 (It's also National Bow Tie Day.)
1955 — Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi — a killing whose horror, laid bare, helped awaken the nation and galvanize the civil rights movement.
1965 — Gemini 5 completed a record eight-day mission, proving astronauts could endure long enough to reach the Moon and back.
1993 — NASA's Galileo probe discovered the first known moon orbiting an asteroid — a tiny companion circling the rock named Ida.
1996 — Prince Charles and Princess Diana finalized their divorce, ending one of the most scrutinized marriages of the century.
2003 — The MTV Video Music Awards delivered one of their most talked-about nights ever, the kind of pop-culture moment that ruled water-cooler conversation.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1963…
⏪ REWIND: 1963 John F. Kennedy is president, a first-class stamp is 5 cents, gas is about 30 cents a gallon — and today, the nation's capital witnesses something it will never forget.
📰 The Headlines Today, some 250,000 people gather on the National Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers the words the world will remember forever: "I have a dream." It is one of the defining moments of the American century.
🎬 At the Movies Filling theaters: The Great Escape — Steve McQueen, that motorcycle leap, and an all-star cast tunneling out of a POW camp. Three hours of pure, rousing adventure.
🎵 On the Charts New at #1 is "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels — the sassy, hand-clapping girl-group anthem that's the sound of the summer.
🏆 In Sports In Los Angeles, Sandy Koufax is in the middle of maybe the greatest season a pitcher has ever had — rolling toward 25 wins, a microscopic ERA, and the MVP, with the Dodgers cruising to the pennant.
🏰 The Disney Vault In theaters from Disney: Summer Magic — Hayley Mills and a warm, tuneful tale of a widow and her children starting over in small-town Maine.
— a couple of quick things before you go —
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💡 Health Snap: a walk can be a good time to think — or to not think at all. Either way, your body is glad you went. More easy wellness reading is at ourfreehealthreport.com.
🎉 Born on an August 28th — or know someone who was?
Forward this to them right now — there's no better "this is the day you were born" gift than a little time travel.
🎂 In good company: August 28 babies include writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Starsky & Hutch's David Soul (1943), country star Shania Twain (1965), Jack Black (1969), and singer LeAnn Rimes (1982).
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