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This day in history: August 28

1. 1950

   American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.

2. 1955

   African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.

3. 1963

   American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

4. 1973

   Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; the hostages had bonded with their captors during the incident, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.

5. 1987

   Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.

6. 1993

   The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon.

7. 2021

   The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.

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