Talk:August 28
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- 475 - Flavius Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.
- 1565 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (pictured) founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
- 1845 - The first issue of Scientific American was published.
- 1850 - The romantic opera Lohengrin by Richard Wagner was first performed in Weimar, Germany.
- 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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The Battle of Jutand also wasn't 1914, and the author may not even have been thinking of Jutland anyway (I just left it in as Jutland as that was the only battle anywhere near there during that war). There was no full blown sea battle in that war before the Battle of the Falklands either, so just what engagement could there have been as early as August 1914? PML.
Moved birth from article:
Unverifiable. Lupo 11:35, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Needs article
Gyula Várady Rklawton 18:21, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
