Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 28
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This is a list of selected August 28 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.August 28: Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism, 2008)
- 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
- 1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated Charles I's English army at the Battle of Newburn near Newburn, England.
- 1845 – The first issue of the popular-science magazine Scientific American was published, currently the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.
- 1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, featuring the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany.
- 1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., describing his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals.
