TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – AUG 28
1609 Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1619 Ferdinand II was elected Holy Roman Emperor. His policy of “One church, one king” was his way of trying to outlaw Protestantism.
1676 Indian chief King Philip, also known as Metacom, is killed by English soldiers, ending the war between Indians and colonists.
1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn’s moon Enceladus
1845 First Issue of Scientific American hits the newsstands
1907 “American Messenger Company” was started by two teenagers, Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The company’s name was later changed to “United Parcel Service.”
1922 The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
1937 Toyota Motor Corporation is Formed
1941 The German U-boat U-570 is captured by the British and renamed Graph
1945 Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung arrives in Chunking to confer with Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek in a futile effort to avert civil war.
1955 Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.
1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1963 Martin Luther King Makes His “I Have a Dream” Speech
1968 Clash between police and anti-war demonstrators during Democratic Party’s National Convention in Chicago.
1981 The Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi’s sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.
1986 US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth given 365-year prison term for spying for USSR.
1990 Iraq declared Kuwait to be its 19th province and renamed Kuwait City al-Kadhima.
2002 WorldCom executives Scott Sulivan and Buford Yates Jr. are indicted on charges of criminal fraud in connection with the company’s collaps
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