On This Day:
Thursday August 28, 2014 This is the 240th day of the year, with 125 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: flags Flags are thought to be the invention of China or India. The first "national" flags in Europe didn't appear until the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Holidays Feast Day of St. Augustine of Hippo, S.t Alexander of Constantinople, St. Edmund Arrowsmith, St. Julian of Brioude, and St. Moses of Abyssinia.
Scotland: Lammas Term.
Events 1609 - Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1917 - Ten suffragists were arrested when they picketed the White House.
1922 - The first-ever radio commercial aired on station WEAF in New York City, for the Queensboro Realty Company.
1963 - A peaceful civil rights rally took place in Washington, D.C. where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 people.
1968 - Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president. In the convention's aftermath, a federal commission investigating the convention described the confrontation as a "police riot" and blamed Chicago Mayor Richard Daley for inciting his police to violence.
1996 - The troubled 15-year marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree.
2000 - The New York Stock Exchange began listing the prices of seven stocks in dollars and cents; previously all stock was listed in fractions.
2005 - An evacuation is ordered by New Orleans, Louisiana mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco as Hurricane Katrina moves closer to Louisiana.
Births 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author.
1774 - Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, first American-born saint.
1828 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist.
1877 - Charles Stewart Rolls, English motorist, aviator, founder of Rolls-Royce Ltd.
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist, conservationist.
1917 - Jack Kirby (Born Jacob Kurtzberg), American comic book artist.
1924 - Janet Frame, New Zealand author.
1925 - Donald O'Connor (born Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor), American singer, dancer, and actor.
1938 - Paul Martin, 21st Prime Minister of Canada.
1965 - Shania Twain (born Eilleen Regina Edwards), Canadian singer.
1969 - Jack Black (born Thomas Jack Black, Jr.), American actor.
1969 - Jason Priestley, Canadian actor.
Deaths 1955 - Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon.
1987 - John Huston, American film director.
1989 - Joseph Alsop, an American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist from the 1930s through the 1970s.
2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate.
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