Today is Wednesday, August 28, the 241st day of the 12 months 2024. There are 125 days left within the 12 months.
Today in history:
On August 28, 1963, through the March on Washington, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Also on this date:
In 1845, the primary issue of the magazine “Scientific American” was published, which stays the oldest repeatedly published magazine within the USA.
In 1898, pharmacist Caleb Bradham of New Bern, North Carolina, modified the name of the carbonated beverage he had created five years earlier from “Brad's Drink” to “Pepsi-Cola.”
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was kidnapped by two white men from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi, 4 days after allegedly whistling at a white woman; he was found brutally murdered three days later.
In 1957, U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (DS.C.) began what stays the longest filibuster in Senate history (24 hours and 18 minutes) to delay passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
In 1968, clashes between police and anti-war protesters broke out within the streets of Chicago when the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey as its presidential candidate.
In 1988, 70 people were killed when three Italian Air Force aerobatic planes collided during an air show on the US Ramstein Air Base (RAHM'-shtyn) in West Germany.
In 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a compulsory evacuation as Hurricane Katrina approached the town.
In 2013, a military court sentenced Major Nidal Hasan to death for the Fort Hood shooting in 2009, which left 13 people dead and 30 injured.
In 2016, six scientists accomplished a year-long Mars simulation on the Big Island of Hawaii, where they emerged after living in a dome in near-isolation on Mauna Loa.
Today's birthdays:
- Former Defense Secretary William S. Cohen is 84.
- Actor Ken Jenkins (TV: “Scrubs”) is 84.
- Former MLB manager and player Lou Piniella (pih-NEHL'-uh) is 81.
- Former MLB pitcher Ron Guidry (GIH'-dree) is 74.
- Former US poet laureate Rita Dove is 72.
- The artist Ai Weiwei is 67.
- Actor Daniel Stern is 67.
- Olympic figure skating champion Scott Hamilton is 66.
- Actress Jennifer Coolidge is 63.
- Film director David Fincher is 62.
- Country singer Shania (shah-NY'-uh) Twain is 59.
- “Pokemon” creator Satoshi Tajiri is 59.
- Actor Billy Boyd is 56.
- Actor Jack Black is 55.
- Pierre Turgeon, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, is 55.
- Actor Jason Priestley is 55.
- Technology manager Sheryl Sandberg is 55.
- Olympic gold medalist in swimming Janet Evans is 53.
- Actress Carly Pope is 43.
- Country singer Jake Owen is 43.
- Country singer LeAnn Rimes is 42.
- Rock singer Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) is 38.
- Actor Quvenzhane (kwuh-VEHN'-zhah-nay) Wallis is 21.
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