August 28
1609 - Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
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.
1941 - Japan’s ambassador to the U.S., Kichisaburo Nomura, presented a note to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Japan’s prime minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, expressing a desire for improved relations.
1955 - Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and killed by white men after he allegedly 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.
1964 - Two days of race-related rioting erupted in North Philadelphia over a false rumor that white police officers had beaten to death a pregnant Black woman.
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. (The cause was later found to be AIDS.)
1981 - John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
1996 - President Bill Clinton was nominated for a second term in office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1996 - Britain's Prince Charles and Princes Diana were divorced after 15 years of marriage.
2005 - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
2008 - Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination with a speech at Invesco Field in Denver.
2009 - The Los Angeles County coroner’s office announced that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol and another sedative, lorazepam.
2013 - A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed 13 lives.
2017 - Floodwaters reached the rooflines of single-story homes as Hurricane Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day; thousands of people had been rescued from the flooding.
2018 - A white former police officer, Roy Oliver, was convicted of murder for fatally shooting a Black 15-year-old boy, Jordan Edwards, while firing into a car packed with teenagers in suburban Dallas; Oliver was sentenced the following day to 15 years in prison.
2020 - Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown as well as the regal Black Panther on screen, died at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
Birthdays
20 - Talia Jackson (actress)
23 - Ari Fournier (model)
30 - Kyle Massey (actor)
30 - Samuel Larsen (actor/singer)
31 - Katie Findlay (actress)
32 - Cassadee Pope (singr)
37 - Sarah Roemer (actress)
38 - Alfonso Herrera (actor)
39 - Kelly Thiebaud (actress)
39 - LeAnn Rimes (country singer)
40 - Jake Owen (country singer)
41 - Carly Pope (actress)
48 - J. August Richards (actor)
50 - Janet Evans (swimmer)
50 - Daniel Goddard (actor)
52 - Jason Priestley (actor)
52 - Jack Black (actor)
53 - Billy Boyd (actor)
56 - Shania Twain (country singer)
56 - Amanda Tapping (actress)
60 - Jennifer Coolidge (actress)
61 - Emma Samms (actress)
62 - John Allen Nelson (actor)
63 - Scott Hamilton (figure skater)
64 - Daniel Stern (actor)
70 - Wayne Osmond (singer)
74 - Debra Mooney (actress)
75 - Barbara Bach (actress)
78 - Lou Piniella (baseball player/manager)
78 - David Soul (actor)
81 - Ken Jenkins (actor)
83 - Marla Adams (actress)
86 - Sonny Shroyer (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 28
1918 - Tris Speaker was suspended by MLB for the remainder of the season for his assault on umpire Tom Connolly.
1922 - The Walker Cup was held for the first time at Southampton, NY. It is the oldest international team golf match in America.
1941 - The Football Writers Association of America was organized.
1972 - Mark Spitz captured the first of his seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He set a world record when he completed the 200-meter butterfly in 2 minutes and 7/10ths of a second.
1977 - Nolan Ryan records his 300th strikeout for the fifth consecutive year.
1994 - #4 Nebraska defeats #24 West Virginia 31-0 in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the Kickoff Classic to open the season.
2020 - On Jackie Robinson Day across the major leagues, the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics jointly walked off the field following a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter T-shirt across home plate as they chose not to play. (Other major league clubs had joined teams in the NBA, WNBA and MLS earlier in the week in calling off games while protesting social injustice.)
1609 - Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
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.
1941 - Japan’s ambassador to the U.S., Kichisaburo Nomura, presented a note to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Japan’s prime minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, expressing a desire for improved relations.
1955 - Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and killed by white men after he allegedly 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.
1964 - Two days of race-related rioting erupted in North Philadelphia over a false rumor that white police officers had beaten to death a pregnant Black woman.
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. (The cause was later found to be AIDS.)
1981 - John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.
1996 - President Bill Clinton was nominated for a second term in office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1996 - Britain's Prince Charles and Princes Diana were divorced after 15 years of marriage.
2005 - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.
2008 - Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination with a speech at Invesco Field in Denver.
2009 - The Los Angeles County coroner’s office announced that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol and another sedative, lorazepam.
2013 - A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed 13 lives.
2017 - Floodwaters reached the rooflines of single-story homes as Hurricane Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day; thousands of people had been rescued from the flooding.
2018 - A white former police officer, Roy Oliver, was convicted of murder for fatally shooting a Black 15-year-old boy, Jordan Edwards, while firing into a car packed with teenagers in suburban Dallas; Oliver was sentenced the following day to 15 years in prison.
2020 - Actor Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown as well as the regal Black Panther on screen, died at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
Birthdays
20 - Talia Jackson (actress)
23 - Ari Fournier (model)
30 - Kyle Massey (actor)
30 - Samuel Larsen (actor/singer)
31 - Katie Findlay (actress)
32 - Cassadee Pope (singr)
37 - Sarah Roemer (actress)
38 - Alfonso Herrera (actor)
39 - Kelly Thiebaud (actress)
39 - LeAnn Rimes (country singer)
40 - Jake Owen (country singer)
41 - Carly Pope (actress)
48 - J. August Richards (actor)
50 - Janet Evans (swimmer)
50 - Daniel Goddard (actor)
52 - Jason Priestley (actor)
52 - Jack Black (actor)
53 - Billy Boyd (actor)
56 - Shania Twain (country singer)
56 - Amanda Tapping (actress)
60 - Jennifer Coolidge (actress)
61 - Emma Samms (actress)
62 - John Allen Nelson (actor)
63 - Scott Hamilton (figure skater)
64 - Daniel Stern (actor)
70 - Wayne Osmond (singer)
74 - Debra Mooney (actress)
75 - Barbara Bach (actress)
78 - Lou Piniella (baseball player/manager)
78 - David Soul (actor)
81 - Ken Jenkins (actor)
83 - Marla Adams (actress)
86 - Sonny Shroyer (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 28
1918 - Tris Speaker was suspended by MLB for the remainder of the season for his assault on umpire Tom Connolly.
1922 - The Walker Cup was held for the first time at Southampton, NY. It is the oldest international team golf match in America.
1941 - The Football Writers Association of America was organized.
1972 - Mark Spitz captured the first of his seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He set a world record when he completed the 200-meter butterfly in 2 minutes and 7/10ths of a second.
1977 - Nolan Ryan records his 300th strikeout for the fifth consecutive year.
1994 - #4 Nebraska defeats #24 West Virginia 31-0 in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the Kickoff Classic to open the season.
2020 - On Jackie Robinson Day across the major leagues, the Houston Astros and Oakland Athletics jointly walked off the field following a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter T-shirt across home plate as they chose not to play. (Other major league clubs had joined teams in the NBA, WNBA and MLS earlier in the week in calling off games while protesting social injustice.)
