August 28
1609 - Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1862 - The Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as Second Manassas) began in Prince William County, Virginia, during the Civil War; the result was a Confederate victory.
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 teen from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally slain three days later.
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.
1988 - Seventy people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany.
1996 - The troubled 15-year marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree.
2005 - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina grew to a monster storm.
2012 - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney swept to the Republican presidential nomination at a storm-delayed national convention in Tampa, Florida. Hurricane Isaac spun into the southern Louisiana coast, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds, as residents hunkered down behind boarded-up windows.
2013 - A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed 13 lives.
2016 - Six scientists completed a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they emerged after living in a dome in near isolation on a Mauna Loa mountain.
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 - Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said he was stepping down because a chronic illness had resurfaced. (Abe was succeeded by his right-hand man, Yoshihide Suga. Abe was assassinated in July 2022.)
2021 - Taliban forces sealed off Kabul’s airport to most Afghans hoping for evacuation, as the U.S. and its allies prepared to end a chaotic airlift. In the aftermath of a suicide attack that killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport, President Joe Biden warned that another attack was “highly likely”; the State Department issued a new security alert instructing people to leave the airport area immediately.
Birthdays
21 - Talia Jackson (actress)
24 - Ari Fournier (model)
25 - Johnnie Guilbert (singer)
25 - Emilia McCarthy (actress)
31 - Kyle Massey (actor)
31 - Samuel Larsen (actor/singer)
32 - Katie Findlay (actress)
33 - Cassadee Pope (singer)
34 - Shalita Grant (actress)
36 - Florence Welch (singer)
36 - Armie Hammer (actor)
38 - Sarah Roemer (actress)
39 - Alfonso Herrera (actor)
40 - Kelly Thiebaud (actress)
40 - LeAnn Rimes (singer)
41 - Jake Owen (singer)
42 - Carly Pope (actress)
49 - J. August Richards (actor)
51 - Janet Evans (swimmer)
51 - Daniel Goddard (actor)
53 - Jason Priestley (actor)
53 - Jack Black (actor)
54 - Billy Boyd (actor)
57 - Shania Twain (singer)
57 - Amanda Tapping (actress)
61 - Jennifer Coolidge (actress)
62 - Emma Samms (actress)
63 - John Allen Nelson (actor)
64 - Scott Hamilton (figure skater)
65 - Daniel Stern (actor)
71 - Wayne Osmond (singer)
75 - Debra Mooney (actress)
76 - Barbara Bach (actress)
79 - Lou Piniella (baseball player/manager)
79 - David Soul (actor)
82 - Ken Jenkins (actor)
84 - Marla Adams (actress)
87 - Sonny Shroyer (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 28
1918 - Tris Speaker is suspended from baseball for the season for an 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 - American swimmer Mark Spitz captured the first of what would become a record seven gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany.
1972 - Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes a media darling at the Munich Summer Olympics, winning gold in the team all-around and in two other individual gymnastics events.
1977 - New York Yankees starting pitcher Ron Guidry faces just 28 batters in a 1-0 win over the Texas Rangers.
1977 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for the fifth consecutive season.
1994 - Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Amateur Championship.
1994 - #4 Nebraska defeats #24 West Virginia 31-0 to open the season at the Kickoff Classic in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
2004 - In a huge Olympic upset, Great Britain defeats the United States in the men's 4x100 meter relay at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
2004 - Argentina defeats Italy 84-69 to win the gold in men's basketball at the Athens Olympics; the star-studded U.S. team takes bronze.
2004 - The U.S. women's basketball team wins its fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal, defeating Australia 74-63.
2021 - Pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels becomes the first player in team history to reach 20 stolen bases and hit 40 home runs in a season.
1609 - Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1862 - The Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as Second Manassas) began in Prince William County, Virginia, during the Civil War; the result was a Confederate victory.
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 teen from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally slain three days later.
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.
1988 - Seventy people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany.
1996 - The troubled 15-year marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree.
2005 - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina grew to a monster storm.
2012 - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney swept to the Republican presidential nomination at a storm-delayed national convention in Tampa, Florida. Hurricane Isaac spun into the southern Louisiana coast, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds, as residents hunkered down behind boarded-up windows.
2013 - A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed 13 lives.
2016 - Six scientists completed a yearlong Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they emerged after living in a dome in near isolation on a Mauna Loa mountain.
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 - Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said he was stepping down because a chronic illness had resurfaced. (Abe was succeeded by his right-hand man, Yoshihide Suga. Abe was assassinated in July 2022.)
2021 - Taliban forces sealed off Kabul’s airport to most Afghans hoping for evacuation, as the U.S. and its allies prepared to end a chaotic airlift. In the aftermath of a suicide attack that killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport, President Joe Biden warned that another attack was “highly likely”; the State Department issued a new security alert instructing people to leave the airport area immediately.
Birthdays
21 - Talia Jackson (actress)
24 - Ari Fournier (model)
25 - Johnnie Guilbert (singer)
25 - Emilia McCarthy (actress)
31 - Kyle Massey (actor)
31 - Samuel Larsen (actor/singer)
32 - Katie Findlay (actress)
33 - Cassadee Pope (singer)
34 - Shalita Grant (actress)
36 - Florence Welch (singer)
36 - Armie Hammer (actor)
38 - Sarah Roemer (actress)
39 - Alfonso Herrera (actor)
40 - Kelly Thiebaud (actress)
40 - LeAnn Rimes (singer)
41 - Jake Owen (singer)
42 - Carly Pope (actress)
49 - J. August Richards (actor)
51 - Janet Evans (swimmer)
51 - Daniel Goddard (actor)
53 - Jason Priestley (actor)
53 - Jack Black (actor)
54 - Billy Boyd (actor)
57 - Shania Twain (singer)
57 - Amanda Tapping (actress)
61 - Jennifer Coolidge (actress)
62 - Emma Samms (actress)
63 - John Allen Nelson (actor)
64 - Scott Hamilton (figure skater)
65 - Daniel Stern (actor)
71 - Wayne Osmond (singer)
75 - Debra Mooney (actress)
76 - Barbara Bach (actress)
79 - Lou Piniella (baseball player/manager)
79 - David Soul (actor)
82 - Ken Jenkins (actor)
84 - Marla Adams (actress)
87 - Sonny Shroyer (actor)
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Today in Sports History - August 28
1918 - Tris Speaker is suspended from baseball for the season for an 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 - American swimmer Mark Spitz captured the first of what would become a record seven gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany.
1972 - Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes a media darling at the Munich Summer Olympics, winning gold in the team all-around and in two other individual gymnastics events.
1977 - New York Yankees starting pitcher Ron Guidry faces just 28 batters in a 1-0 win over the Texas Rangers.
1977 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for the fifth consecutive season.
1994 - Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Amateur Championship.
1994 - #4 Nebraska defeats #24 West Virginia 31-0 to open the season at the Kickoff Classic in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
2004 - In a huge Olympic upset, Great Britain defeats the United States in the men's 4x100 meter relay at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
2004 - Argentina defeats Italy 84-69 to win the gold in men's basketball at the Athens Olympics; the star-studded U.S. team takes bronze.
2004 - The U.S. women's basketball team wins its fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal, defeating Australia 74-63.
2021 - Pitcher/designated hitter Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels becomes the first player in team history to reach 20 stolen bases and hit 40 home runs in a season.
