August 28
1609
Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1850
Richard Wagner’s opera, Lohengrin, premiered at Weimar, Germany.
1922
The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
1955
Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.
1963
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.
1968
Anti-Vietnam war protesters and police clashed in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
1981
The Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi’s sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.
Birthdays
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749–1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, b. Frankfurt.
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
religious leader (1774)
Charles Boyer
actor (1899)
Bruno Bettelheim
psychologist (1903)
Roger Tory Peterson
ornithologist (1908)
Robertson Davies
writer (1913)
Jason Priestley
actor (1969)