Today in History.....August 28

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1609, Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay

1879, King Cetshwayo, the last great ruler of Zululand, is captured by the British following his defeat in the British-Zulu War. He was subsequently sent into exile. Cetshwayo's defiance of British rule in southern Africa led to Britain's invasion of Zululand in 1879

1916, Italy's declaration of war against Germany took effect during World War I

1941, more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews are murdered by the Gestapo, ym"sh, in occupied Ukraine

1963, 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial

1968, police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic national convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president

1973, more than 520 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico

1981, John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Reagan (he was later acquitted by reason of insanity)

1986, retired Navy warrant officer Jerry A. Whitworth, convicted for his role in a Soviet spy ring, was sentenced by a federal judge in San Francisco to 365 years in prison 1988, 70 people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany

1996, he troubled 15-year marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree

2001, Gateway, the nation's No. 4 manufacturer of personal computers, said it was laying off 4,700 employees -- 25% of its global work force -- because of an increasingly bleak market

2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina grew to a monster storm
ALSO: Iraqi negotiators finished a new constitution but without the endorsement of Sunni Arabs