August 28 in Pop Culture History
1609 – Henry Hudson discovered the Delaware Bay.
1789 – William Herschel discovered another Saturn moon, Enceladus.
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s (B&O) new ‘Tom Thumb’ steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US railroads.
1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 received Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine was published.
1898 – Caleb Bradham invented the carbonated soft drink that would later be called “Pepsi-Cola”.
1955 – Black 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi, for ‘flirting’ with a white woman, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1961 – #1 Hit August 28, 1961 – September 3, 1961: Joe Dowell – Wooden Heart (Muss I Denn)
1963 – At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales got divorced.
