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Historical Events
on August 28th
- Lead Story
- Charles and Diana divorce,1996
- American Revolution
- St. Elizabeth born in New York City,1774
- Automotive
- Charles S. Rolls born,1877
- Civil War
- Alfred Terry is promoted,1864
- Cold War
- Riots in Chicago fracture the Cold War consensus,1968
- Crime
- A twisted scheme leaves an unsuspecting wife dead,1965
- Murdered students are discovered at the University of Florida,1990
- Disaster
- Air-show accident burns spectators,1988
- General Interest
- Zulu king captured,1879
- The death of Emmett Till,1955
- King speaks to March on Washington,1963
- Protests at Democratic National Convention in Chicago,1968
- Hollywood
- John Huston dies,1987
- Literary
- Robertson Davies is born,1913
- Music
- Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, puts her stamp on the March on Washington,1963
- Old West
- Three leave Powell's Grand Canyon expedition,1869
- Presidential
- President Woodrow Wilson picketed by women suffragists,1917
- Sports
- Pele leads Cosmos to title,1977
- Vietnam War
- North Vietnamese pilots being trained in Soviet Union,1966
- More voices raised against the war,1967
- DNC endorses Johnson administration platform on the war in Vietnam,1968
- U.S. Air Force gets its first ace since Korean War,1972
- World War I
- Battle of Heligoland Bight,1914
- World War II
- Mass slaughter in Ukraine,1941
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