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Today in History ~ August 28
Events0030 - John the Baptist is Beheaded by order of King Herod, perhaps at the whim of Salome
0476 - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted
1565 - Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established
1609 - Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1655 - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bar Jews from military service
1830 - 1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb," runs from Balt to Ellicotts Mill
1837 - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
1849 - Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Count Radetsky, following a siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
1850 - Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
1861 - Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
1862 - Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
1862 - Confederate spy Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
1864 - Democratic National Convention nominated General George B. McClellan -- an incompetent general -- to run for President of the United States against Abraham Lincoln. McClellan's campaign platform called the war in America a failure.
1867 - US occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
1879 - Last great Zulu King, King Cetshwayo, captured by the British following his defeat in the British-Zulu War. The king was sent into exile. [H]
1884 - 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1907 - United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle Mass [H]
1914 - Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1916 - Germany declares war on Romania
1916 - Italy's declaration of war against Germany took effect during World War I.
1922 - A New York City realty company paid $100 for the first radio commercial, on station WEAF.
1938 - Mauthausen concentration camp opens for business in Austria
1938 - Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1943 - Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
1943 - Mussolini transferred from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1944 - Last German troops in Marseille surrender & Toulon cleared
1947 - Legendary bullfighter Manolete was mortally wounded by a bull during a fight in Linares, Spain; he died the following day at age 30.
1949 - Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
1952 - Germans & Israelis reach accord about recovery payments
1957 - Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1963 - 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
1963 - Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech. The Dream Speech was delivered to over 200,000 marchers at the Lincoln Memorial. The speech has come to symbolize peaceful resistance to racism and oppression to which Dr. King dedicated his life's work. [H]
1964 - Race riot in Philadelphia
1968 - The Democratic Party nominated Hubert Humphrey for president as thousands of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators battled police in the streets and parks of Chicago at Chicago's Democratic National Convention
1973 - Judge John Sirica ordered President Nixon to turn over secret Watergate tapes. Nixon refused and appealed the order.
1981 - John W. Hinckley, Jr., pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Reagan. (He was later acquitted by reason of insanity).
1981 - National Centers for Disease Control noting a high incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men, announced a medical task force had been formed to find out why. It was later determined the increased number of illnesses was caused by AIDS.
1982 - "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 performances
1983 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
1986 - US Navy officer Soviet spy Jerry A Whitworth was sentenced in San Francisco to 365 years in prison and fined $410,000.
1988 - More than 50 people were killed in the Philippines in an unsuccessful coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino.
1988 - 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1990 - At least 27 people were killed and more than 350 injured when a tornado struck Will County, Ill., southwest of Chicago.
1990 - A fourth and fifth college student victims of an apparent serial killer were found near the University of Florida at Gainesville.
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev ordered a shake-up of the KGB and sacked his cabinet in the wake of the failed coup by hard-liners.
1992 - The U.S. government mounted two huge relief operations, rushing food and drinking water to hurricane-ravaged Florida while U.S. cargo planes landed in Somalia with tons of food for African famine victims.
1992 - Veteran Rep. Nicholas Mavroules, D-Mass., pleaded innocent to federal charges of racketeering, tax evasion and accepting bribes.
1994 - A supporter of exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was shot to death in Port-au-Prince.
1996 - After four years of separation, Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana, were formally divorced.
1997 - Proposition 209, California's controversial anti-affirmative action measure approved by the state's voters a year earlier, officially took effect.
2000 - Authorities in Peru announced that four years after military judges convicted American Lori Berenson of planning a rebel attack, the military had overturned her life sentence, clearing the way for a new civilian trial. Berenson, who maintained her innocence, was convicted of "terrorist collaboration" and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
2001 - Gateway, the nation's No. 4 manufacturer of personal computers, said it was laying off 4,700 employees, 25 percent of its global work force, because of an increasingly bleak market.
2002 - Four men, three of them working at the airport, were indicted in Detroit as suspected terrorists. Another man, suspected of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon, was indicted in Seattle, Wash.
Birthdays Today
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, prolific author/social philosopher (Faust, The sorrows of Young Werther)
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975)
1828 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer (War & Peace, Anna Karenina) [OS]
1894 - Karl Bohm, Austrian conductor
1898 - Charlie Grimm (baseball)
1899 - Charles Boyer (actor: Around the World in 80 Days, Barefoot in the Park, Casino Royale, The Mad Woman of Chaillot, Algiers)
1905 - Sam Levene (actor: A Dream of Kings, Three Men on a Horse)
1906 - John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion)
1913 - Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], Brooklyn NY, Tenor (NY Met Opera)
1916 - C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite)
1917 - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America)
1919 - Ben Agajanian (football)
1921 - Nancy Kulp (actress) (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Bob Cummings Show, The Brian Keith Show, The Three Faces of Eve)
1924 - Peggy Ryan (actress: Hawaii Five-O, Here Come the Co-Eds, Miss Annie Rooney)
1925 - Billy Grammer (singer: Gotta Travel On, Bonaparte's Retreat)
1925 - Donald O'Connor (actor, dancer: A Time to Remember, Singing in the Rain, Francis the Mule series)
1929 - Istvan Kertesz, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera 1953-57/London Philharmonic)
1929 - Roxie Roker (actress: The Jeffersons)
1930 - Ben (Biago) Gazzara (actor: Run for Your Life, Arrest and Trial, Anatomy of a Murder, The Bridge at Remagen, QB VII, Voyage of the Damned, Bloodline)
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone (Death in Venice)
1932 - Andy Bathgate (Hockey Hall of Famer: New York Rangers: Hart Memorial Trophy winner: [1959]; Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Redwings, Toronto Maple Leafs)
1936 - Tony Gonzalez (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies Second Base)
1941 - Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass (Met Opera)
1943 - Lou Piniella (baseball: Kansas City Royals outfielder: Rookie of the Year [1969]; Seattle Mariners)
1945 - Jim Lynch (football: Kansas City Chiefs linebacker: Super Bowl IV)
1945 - John Demarie (football)
1946 - David Soul (Solberg) (actor: Starsky and Hutch, Salem's Lot; singer: Don't Give Up on Us)
1946 - Mike Torres (baseball)
1948 - Daniel Seriphine (musician: drums: group: Chicago: If You Leave Me Now, Hard to Say I'm Sorry, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?)
1950 - Rod Guidry (baseball: NY Yankees pitcher: Cy Young Award winner [1978]; AP male athlete of the year [1978])
1951 - Joel Youngblood (baseball)
1951 - Wayne Osmond (singer: group: The Osmond Brothers: One Bad Apple, Any Time)
1953 - Bob Avellini (football)
1958 - Scott Hamilton (Olympic Hall of Famer and figure skating Gold Medalist [1984]; Stars on Ice)
1960 - Emma Samms (Samuelson) (actress: Dynasty, General Hospital, Illusions, Delirious)
1969 - Jason Priestley (actor: Beverly Hills 90210, Sister Kate, Calendar Girl, Tombstone, The Boy Who Could Fly)
Famous deaths
0030 - John the Baptist is Beheaded by order of King Herod
0388 - Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed
1521 - Josquin Des Prez, composer, dies
1522 - Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 75
1576 - Titian, [Tiziano Vecelli], Italian painter, dies of plague
1635 - Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72
1646 - Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53
1793 - Adam-Philippe Custine, Duke de Lauzun French) duke/general/fought in American Revolution,/hero in both countries), guillotined in Paris
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
1914 - Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59
1955 - Emmett Till, kidnapped, brutally beaten and lynched by white racists, at 14, in Money, Mississippi. The murder was provoked reportedly because Emmett, an African American from Chicago, supposedly whistled at a white woman and called her "baby" four days earlier. The racists were the woman's husband and brother. [H]
1964 - Gracie Allen, comedian (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1965 - Le Corbusier, [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss/French architect, dies at 77
1967 - Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1967 - Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly, dies
1968 - William E B Dubois, US founder NAACP (Souls of black people) dies at 95 in Accra Ghana,
1971 - Bennett Cerf, (Random House)/panelist (What's My Line), dies at 73
1971 - Margaret Bourke-White, US photographer, dies at 67
1971 - Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924),
1975 - Emperor Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor, strangled at 83
1978 - Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51
1978 - Bruce Catton, US historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78
1979 - Lord Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, killed by IRA
1979 - Nicholas Mountbatten, Lord Mountbatten's grandson, murdered at 14
1985 - Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
1987 - John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
1996 - Alexander Lanusse, military president of Argentina (1971-73)
1997 - Brandon Tartikoff, TV exec (NBC), dies at 48
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