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