August 1963 Thursday 08: Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal 2.6 million pounds in bank notes. Sunday 18: American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi. Saturday 24: The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58). Wednesday 28: During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech. Friday 30: Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.

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