Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/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.
