DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Saturday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2021. There are 125 days left in the year.
1609: English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reached present-day Delaware Bay.
1941: Japan’s ambassador to the U.S., Kichisaburo Nomura, presented a note to President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Japan’s prime minister, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, expressing a desire for improved relations.
1955: Emmett Till, a Black teen from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman; he was found brutally slain three days later.
1963: More than 200,000 people listened as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,
D.C.
1964: Two days of race-related rioting erupted in North Philadelphia over a false rumor that white police officers had beaten to death a pregnant Black woman.
1968: Police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
1988: 70 people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany.
1996: The troubled 15-year marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially ended with the issuing of a divorce decree.
2005: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate after Hurricane Katrina grew to a monster storm.
2009: The Los Angeles County coroner’s office announced that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide caused primarily by the powerful anesthetic propofol and another sedative, lorazepam.
2013: A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed 13 lives. On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial, President Barack Obama stood on the steps as he challenged new generations to seize the cause of racial equality.
2017: Floodwaters reached the rooflines of single-story homes as Hurricane Harvey poured rain on the Houston area for a fourth consecutive day; thousands of people had been rescued from the flooding.
Actor Sonny Shroyer (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) is 86. Actor Marla Adams (“The Young and the Restless”) is 83. Actor Ken Jenkins (“Scrubs”) is 81. Actor David Soul (“Starsky and Hutch”) is 78. Actor
Barbara Bach is 75. Actor Debra Mooney (“The Practice,” “Everwood”) is 74. Singer
Wayne Osmond of The Osmonds is 70. Actor Daniel Stern is 64. Actor Emma Samms is 61. Actor
Jennifer Coolidge is 60. Actor
Amanda Tapping (“Stargate: Atlantis,” “Stargate SG-1”) is 56. Country singer Shania Twain is 56. Actor Billy Boyd (“Lord of the Rings”) is 53. Actor-singer Jack Black of Tenacious D is 52. Actor Jason Priestley (“Beverly Hills, 90210”) is 52. Actor
Daniel Goddard (“The Young and the Restless”) is 50. Actor J. August Richards (“Kevin (Probably) Saves The World,” “Angel”) is 48. Singerbassist Max Collins of Eve 6 is 43. Actor Carly Pope (“Outlaw,” “24,”) is 41. Country singer Jake Owen is 40. Country singer Leann Rimes is 39. Actor Kelly Theibaud (“General Hospital”) is 39. Actor Armie Hammer (“The Lone Ranger,” “The Social Network”) is 35. Singer Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine is 35. Actor Shalita Grant (“NCIS: New Orleans”) is 33. Singer Cassadee Pope (“The Voice”) is 32. Actor
Katie Findlay (“How To Get Away With Murder”) is 31. Actor Samuel Larsen (“Glee”) is 30. Actor Kyle Massey (“Cory in the House,” “That’s So Raven”) is 30. Actor Quvenzhane Wallis (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) is 18. Reality TV personality Honey Boo Boo (Alana Thompson) (“Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”) is 16.