TODAY IN HISTORY

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2018 THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire.

1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.

1859 – The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.

1894 - Paddlesteamer Rodney is burnt near Menindee, NSW by unionist shearers in protest at it being used to break a strike.

1898 – Caleb Bradham’s beverage “Brad’s Drink” is renamed “Pepsi-Cola”.

1914 – World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.

1914 – World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland

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1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.

1917 – Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House for women’s rights.

1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the budding civil rights movement.

1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gives his famous I Have a Dream speech

1968 – Rioting in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention is followed by a brutal police crackdown.

1988 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Italian Air Force demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd, killing 75 and seriously injuring 346.

1996 - The final divorce decree is granted to Prince Charles and Lady Diana.