This Day In History

	On this day, August 28th It was on this day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech in Washington D.C. during a civil rights rally at the Lincoln Memorial.
	On this day, August 27th Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859 becoming the world's first successful oil well.
	On this day, August 26th A man is given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain in 1994.
	On this day, August 25th The White House is destroyed and Washington, D.C. burned in 1814 during the War of 1812.
	On this day, August 24th Mark David Chapman is sentenced for murdering John Lennon and Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling. These are a couple of events to take place on this day throughout history.
	On this day, August 23rd Two Italian anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, are executed on this day in 1927 after a controversial murder trial.
	On this day, August 22nd Someone steals the Mona Lisa from The Louvre in Paris on this day in 1911.
	On this day, August 21st Aloha! Hawaii became the 50th state today in 1959.
	On this day, August 20th Some music firsts today as Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in 1812 and The Rolling Stones release Satisfaction in Britain in 1965.
	On this day, August 19th Afghanistan celebrates its independence from the United Kingdom in 1919 today.