posted August 28, 2004 07:20 PM         

28th August

1828
Leo Tolstoy, philosopher & novelist was born

1963
Over 200,000 people participate in the March on Washington, demanding full civil rights for black Americans. The day culminates in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech.

1968
Police in Chicago, Illinois, violently attack protesters against the Vietnam War who have filled the streets outside the Democratic National Convention.

430
Saint Augustine, one of the most influential theologians in the history of the Catholic church, dies at Hippo at the age of 75.

1850
Composer and pianist Franz Liszt conducts the premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin in Weimar, Germany.

1955
Fourteen-year-old African American Emmett Till is abducted and later murdered by two white men in Mississippi, after he allegedly flirts with a white woman. (Civil rights movement)

1749
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet & novelist was born; http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/RefPages/RefMedia.aspx?refid=461535404&artref id=761555180&pn=3&sec=-1

And a bit about Virgos

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Virgoans are practical, no-nonsense people: detail-oriented, analytical, intelligent, and hard-working. They handle complex tasks with seeming effortlessness because they are flexible and good organizers.

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posted August 28, 2004 07:54 PM         

Are you a Virgo? When is your B-day?