August 28 is the 241st day of the year. There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year.
1565 Oldest city in the US, St. Augustine, Florida, is established despite the giant flying cockroaches they always forget to mention in the travel brochures
1655 New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service who have no problem telling even though they aren’t asked
1898 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola"
1907 "American Messenger Company" is started in Seattle by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The company's name is later changed to "United Parcel Service."
1922 WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio commercial (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins) [~$1,270 in 2009)
1957 Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill despite generously donating his sperm to a black woman
1961 Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1968 Police riot against anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention
1981 John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan but guilty of having shot countless times dreaming of Jodie Foster
1986 Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade is remarkably sedate and free of fantastic gadgetry
1997 Belgian amusement park riders are stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, maybe gay German poet and literary giant
1921 Nancy Kulp, gay US actress/Miss Jane Hathaway
1980 TJ Cummings/Nick Steele , gay US pornographic actor
430 Saint Augustine, probably gay Carthaginian priest/saint/Doctor of the Church/plagiarizer, is received in the city of God
1955 14-year-old Emmett Till is abducted from his uncle's home in Mississippi and brutally lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman. cf: John Hinckly, above
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