This day in history - August 28

[seamusTX]

1609 - Henry Hudson, the English captain of the Dutch ship Half Moon, arrived in Delaware Bay on his first exploration of North America.

1955 - Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was murdered in Money, Mississippi, after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. The murder was a motivating event of the civil rights movement.

1955 - I was born.

1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in one of the largest demonstrations ever to take place in the U.S., at the Lincoln Memorial.

1968 - Police and anti-war demonstrators rioted in Grant Park in downtown Chicago and outside the Democratic National Convention in the Conrad Hilton (across Michigan Avenue). I remember watching on TV, with the demonstrators chanting, “The whole world is watching.”

That week was also the only time I saw with my own eyes armed National Guardsmen and barbed-wire barricades.

- Jim

[longtooth]

Happy B-day sir & many more.

[USA1]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAMUS !!!!!!

[seamusTX]

Thank you.

- Jim

[USA1]

you thought you could slip that in and we wouldn't notice

[joe817]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! from me to Jim!

[dicion]

Happy Birthday Jim!!!!

Tried to sneak that one in there, huh?
Thought we wouldn't notice?
Ha!..

Wait... you don't have a special Birthday Horse avatar to switch to?

How often do you change em anyways, it sometimes seems daily :P

[longhorn_92]

1955 - I was born.

- Jim

Wow... Ancient History!!

Happy Birthday!

[seamusTX]

This is the best that I could do on short notice: ----->

I used to change avatars often, but I'm fond of the miniature donkey.

- Jim

[USA1]

I'm fond of the miniature donkey.

me too

[mikeintexas]

Happy Birthday, Seamus!

(the banana was my grandson's idea!)

[Keith B]

Happy BD Jim sir!!!

[Kevinf2349]

Hoppie birdie UU