A4 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 2021
TODAY
Today is Monday, Jan. 18, the
18th day of 2021. There are 347
days left in the year. It is Martin
Luther King Jr. Day.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 18, 1911, the first
landing of an aircraft on a ship
took place as pilot Eugene B. Ely
brought his Curtiss biplane in for
a safe landing on the deck of the
armored cruiser USS Pennsylva-
nia in San Francisco Harbor.
In 1778, English navigator Cap-
tain James Cook reached the
present-day Hawaiian Islands,
which he named the “Sandwich
Islands.”
In 1782, lawyer and statesman
Daniel Webster was born in
Salisbury, New Hampshire.
In 1943, during World War II,
Jewish insurgents in the Warsaw
Ghetto launched their initial
armed resistance against Nazi
troops, who eventually succeed-
ed in crushing the rebellion.
The Soviets announced they’d
broken through the long Nazi
siege of Leningrad (it was an-
other year before the siege was
fully lifted).
In 1952, Jerome “Curly” Howard
of Three Stooges fame died in
San Gabriel, Calif., at age 48.
In 1957, a trio of B-52 s com-
pleted the first non-stop, round-
the-world flight by jet planes,
landing at March Air Force Base
in California after more than 45
hours aloft.
In 1967, Albert DeSalvo, who
claimed to be the “Boston Stran-
gler,” was convicted of armed
robbery, assault and sex offens-
es. (Sentenced to life, DeSalvo
was killed in prison in 1973.)
In 1990, a jury in Los Angeles
acquitted former preschool
operators Raymond Buckey and
his mother, Peggy McMartin
Buckey, of 52 child molestation
charges.
In 1991, financially strapped
Eastern Airlines shut down
after more than six decades in
business.
In 1993, the Martin Luther King
Jr. holiday was observed in all 50
states for the first time.
In 1998, the motion picture “Ti-
tanic” won four Golden Globes,
including best drama and best
director for James Cameron;
“Ally McBeal” beat out “Seinfeld”
as the best TV comedy.
In 2005, the world’s largest
commercial jet, the Airbus A380
“superjumbo” capable of flying
up to 800 passengers, was un-
veiled in Toulouse, France.
In 2019, Jason Van Dyke, the
white Chicago police officer
who gunned down Black teen-
ager Laquan McDonald in 2014,
was sentenced to nearly seven
years in prison.
Ten years ago: Chinese
President Hu Jintao arrived at
Andrews Air Force Base outside
Washington for a four-day state
visit; President Barack Obama
welcomed him with a private din-
ner in the White House residence.
Five years ago: For the first
time in 17 years, civil rights
leaders gathered at the South
Carolina Statehouse to pay hom-
age to the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. without the Confederate
flag present; it was one of many
rallies throughout the country.
Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey,
67, died in New York.
One year ago: Ahead of open-
ing statements in the impeach-
ment trial of President Donald
Trump, House prosecutors
wrote that Trump had “used
his official powers to pressure a
foreign government to interfere
in a United States election for his
personal political gain,” while
Trump’s legal team denounced
what it called a “brazen and
unlawful attempt to overturn
the results of the 2016 election.”
Buckingham Palace said Prince
Harry and his wife, Meghan,
would no longer use the title
“royal highness” or receive pub-
lic funds for their work under a
deal allowing them to step aside
as senior royals.
Today’s Birthdays: Movie di-
rector John Boorman is 88. Sing-
er-songwriter Bobby Goldsboro
is 80. Comedian-singer-musician
Brett Hudson is 68. Actor-director
Kevin Costner is 66. Country sing-
er-actor Mark Collie is 65. Actor
Mark Rylance is 61. Actor Alison
Arngrim (TV: “Little House on the
Prairie”) is 59. Former Maryland
Gov. Martin O’Malley is 58. Come-
dian Dave Attell is 56. Actor Jesse
L. Martin is 52. Rapper DJ Quik is
51. Rock singer Jonathan Davis
(Korn) is 50. Former NAACP Pres-
ident and CEO Benjamin Todd
Jealous is 48. Actor Derek Rich-
ardson is 45. Actor Jason Segel is
41. Actor Samantha Mumba is 38.
Country singer Kristy Lee Cook
(TV: “American Idol”) is 37. Actor
Devin Kelley is 35. Actor Ashleigh
Murray (TV: “Riverdale”) is 33. Ac-
tor Zeeko Zaki is 31. Tennis player
Angelique Kerber is 33.
— Associated Press
HE HAD A DREAM
By Charles Apple | THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
Fifty-seven years ago last August, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. took the
struggle for civil rights up a notch with his nationally-televised “I Have a Dream”
speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
While
King’s
speech has
become
one of the
most
recognized
pieces of
oratory in
American
history, the
fact is, King
built up to
that
moment
over the
course of
months.
King reportedly first used “I have a dream”
in Rocky Mount, N.C., on Nov. 17, 1962:
On June 23, 1963, King
told a large rally in Detroit:
“And so, my friends of Rocky
Mountain, I have a dream tonight. It
is a dream deeply rooted in the
American dream ... I have a dream
tonight: One day my little daughter
and my two sons will grow up in a
world not conscious of the color of
their skin but only conscious of the
fact that they are members of the
human race ... I have a dream
tonight. Someday, we will be free.”
“I have a dream this afternoon that my
four little children, that my four little
children will not come up in the same
young days that I came up within, but they
will be judged on the basis of the content
of their character, not the color of their skin
... I have a dream this afternoon that one
day, right here in Detroit, Negroes will be
able to buy a house or rent a house
anywhere that their money will carry
them, and they will be able to get a job.”
The 1963 March on Washington speech
“When it came to my speech
drafts,” wrote King’s
speechwriter, Clarence
Jones, King “often acted like
an interior designer. I would
deliver four strong walls and
he would use his God-given
abilities to furnish the place
so it felt like home.”
Jones wrote a draft for King’s
remarks to the March on
Washington for Jobs and
Freedom. As usual, he delivered
the draft to King’s hotel room.
Clarence Jones
At 4 a.m., an exhausted King gave
a revised copy of the text to his
aides to distribute. The “I have a
dream” section was not in it.
As the final speaker of 16 on a
hot, humid day, King neared
the end of his prepared
remarks when gospel singer —
and one of King’s favorite
entertainers — Mahalia
Jackson, who was sitting
behind him, urged King: “Tell
them about the dream, Martin!
Tell them about the dream!”
“When he was reading
from his text, he stood
like a lecturer,” Jones
wrote, but then King set
that text aside. Jones
wrote that he turned to a
person next to him and
said: “These people don’t
know it, but they’re
about to go to church.”
That day — Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial — King said, in part:
“I have a
dream that my
four little
children will
one day live in
a nation
where they
will not be
judged by the
color of their
skin but by the
content of
their character.
“I have a dream today. I have
a dream that one day down
in Alabama, with its vicious
racists, with its governor
having his lips dripping with
the words of interposition
and nullification; that one day
right down in Alabama, little
black boys and black girls will
be able to join hands with
little white boys and white
girls as sisters and brothers.
“I have a dream today.”
“Though (King) was extremely well known before he
stepped to the lectern,” Jones wrote, “he had stepped
down on the other side of history.”
The King estate owns the copyright of the speech, and rights to publishing the “I Have a
Dream speech” are fiercely guarded by EMI group. Both CBS News and USA Today have
been successfully sued for copyright infringement.
Sources: Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, The Guardian, Smithsonian Institution, Motherboard magazine
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