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2019

Activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic to speak about climate change.

Kenya enacts the world’s strictest ban on plastic bags, with penalties of up to $38,000 and four years in prison.

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and Princess Diana divorce, ending their 15-year marriage.

Premiere of Michel Tremblay’s play “Les Belles-soeurs.”

The first Subway restaurant opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

In Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his civil rights speech “I Have a Dream” before more than 200,000 people.

Two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan, founded the American Messenger Company. The company would later change its name to UPS.

Bishop Bourget announces the construction of Montreal Cathedral.

Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins invent Worcestershire sauce.

It happened on… August 28