Today in History in 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream speech, calling for Civil Rights and equal opportunities.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

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EVENTS

489 - Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into present-day Italy.

663 - Silla-Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.

1189 - Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre, present-day Lebanon, under Guy of Lusignan.

1521 – Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.

1524 - The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.

1565 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles sights land near St. Augustine, Florida, which becomes the oldest-continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.

1609 - Henry Hudson reaches Delaware Bay.

1619 – Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor.

1640 - Second Bishop's War: Charles I of England's army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.

1709 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.

1789 – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.

1845 – The first edition of the Scientific American magazine is published.

1850 - Richard Wagner's Lohengrin Romantic opera is first performed in Weimar, under direction of Franz Liszt.

1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extends its blockage strategy by capturing the Confederate forts on North Carolina's Center Banks.

1862 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run.

1867 – The United States annexes the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

1879 – Cetshwayo, the last king of the Zulus is captured by the British.

1898 - Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will become known as Pepsi Cola.

1909 - A military coup d'état against the government of Dimitrios Rallis in Greece begins.

1913 – The Peace Palace in The Hague is inaugurated.

1914 - World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet at the First Battle of Heligoland Bight.

1916 - World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. On the same day, Italy declares war on Germany.

1917 - Ten suffragettes (campaigners for women's right to vote) are arrested after a protest outside the White House in Washington, DC.

1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.

1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

1943 - World War II: A general strike in Denmark against the occupiers begins.

1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

1953 – Nippon TV broadcasts Japan's first television programme.

1955 – African American teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi.

1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream speech, calling for Civil Rights and equal opportunities.

1963 - The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina in Washington state, United States.

1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.

1968 - Riots occur in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic Party's National Convention.

1971 - A fire on the Greek ferry Heleanna kills 26 people.

1972 - Mark Spitz wins the first two of his total of seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

1973 - Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca in Mexico are struck by an earthquake, killing 1,200 people.

1979 - An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium.

1984 - In Amstetten, Austria, Josef Fritzl locks up his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar behind his house. She would remain imprisoned there for over 23 years until April 26, 2008.

1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolore demonstration team collide, with the wreckage falling into the crowd, killing 75 people and injuring 346.

1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait its newest province.

1990 - A Force 5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.

1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales officially divorce.

2003 – A power blackout in southeastern England affects 500,000 people.

2005 – Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi.

2007 - Abdullah Gül becomes President of Turkey.

2008 - Barack Obama accepts the Democrats' nomination for President of the United States, becoming the first African American to do so.

2014 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan becomes President of Turkey.