On Jackie Robinson Day across the major leagues, the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics jointly walked off the field following a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter T-shirt across home plate as they chose not to play. One year ago: Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown as well as the regal Black Panther on screen, died at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
Juan Gabriel, a superstar Mexican songwriter and singer who was an icon in the Latin music world, died at his home in California at age 66. Beyonce received eight honors at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York.
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Ryan Harlost led Endwell, New York, to the Little League World Series title, striking out eight and limiting South Korea to five hits in six innings in a 2-1 victory. Katy Perry won three MTV Video Music Awards, including video of the year for the inspirational clip “Firework.”įive years ago: Six scientists completed a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they emerged after living in a dome in near isolation on a Mauna Loa mountain. California returned the Little League World Series title to the United States with a 2-1 victory over Hamamatsu City, Japan. Ten years ago: A suicide bomber struck inside Baghdad’s largest Sunni mosque, killing 29 people during prayers. In 2018, a white former police officer, Roy Oliver, was convicted of murder for fatally shooting a Black 15-year-old boy, Jordan Edwards, while firing into a car packed with teenagers in suburban Dallas Oliver was sentenced the following day to 15 years in prison. In 2017, floodwaters reached the rooflines of single-story homes as Hurricane Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day thousands of people had been rescued from the flooding. On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, President Barack Obama stood on the same steps as he challenged new generations to seize the cause of racial equality. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed 13 lives. In 2009, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office announced that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol (PROH’-puh-fahl) and another sedative, lorazepam (lor-AZ’-uh-pam). In 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (NAY’-gin) ordered everyone in the city to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina grew to a monster storm. In 1996, the troubled 15-year marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree. Air Base in Ramstein (RAHM’-shtyn), West Germany. In 1988, 70 people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. In 1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. In 1964, two days of race-related rioting erupted in North Philadelphia over a false rumor that white police officers had beaten to death a pregnant Black woman.
In 1955, Emmett Till, a Black teen 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 slain three days later. Roosevelt from Japan’s prime minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, expressing a desire for improved relations. In 1941, Japan’s ambassador to the U.S., Kichisaburo Nomura, presented a note to President Franklin D. In 1609, English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reached present-day Delaware Bay.
delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people listened as the Rev.
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