On This day August 28th
OTD
August
28th is the two hundredth-fortieth day of the year, and there are 125 days
remaining until the end of the year.
Event
1565
– Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida, and finds
the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental
United States.
1609
– Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1830
– The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a
horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
1845
– The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1859
– The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm to strike the Earth.
Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
1879
– Anglo-Zulu War: The British captured Cetshwayo, the last king of the Zulus.
1898
– Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed
"Pepsi-Cola."
1914
– World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of
Heligoland Bight.
1937
– Toyota Motors became an independent company.
1955
– Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white
woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
1988
– Ramstein air show disaster: Three Frecce Tricolori demonstration team
aircraft collide, and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five were
killed and 346 seriously injured.
1993
– NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers
later discovered the first known asteroid moon in pictures from the flyby and
named it Dactyl.
Birthdays
1728
– John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
1749
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat
(d. 1832)
1801
– Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)
1833
– Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (d. 1898)
1859
– Matilda Howell, American archer (d. 1938)
1878
– George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1976)
1910
– Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1985)
1918
– L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (d. 1995)
1921
– John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
1931
– Roger Williams, English hepatologist and academic (d. 2020)
1942
– Wendy Davies, Welsh historian and academic.
1954
– George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist, and engineer
1969
– Jack Black, American actor and comedian
1982
– LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
Holiday
Spotlight
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day
Deborah
Barnes had to say goodbye to her cat, Mr. Jazz, on August 28, 2013. She wrote a
really emotional book about her experience, “Purr Prints of the Heart—A Cat’s
Tale Of Life, Death and Beyond.”
After
the book came out, Deborah got a huge response from people who read it. They
shared their own stories of losing a pet, and Deborah realized that her
experience was similar to others. She decided to create Rainbow Bridge
Remembrance Day for people all over the world to share their stories and
memories of beloved pets they've lost. The holiday started in 2015, and now
every year on August 28, people take time to remember their pets.
Holidays
And Observance.
Crackers
Over the Keyboard Day
Dream
Day
International
Read Comics in Public Day
National
Bow Tie Day
National
Cherry Turnover Day
National
Power Rangers Day
NHPI
Women's Equal Pay Day
Race
Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio
Commercials Day
Rainbow
Bridge Remembrance Day
Red
Wine Day
Tug
of War Day
Willing
to Lend a Hand Wednesday
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