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430 \u2013 Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis<\/em>, Saint Augustine, dies in Hippo Regius, Numidia, in what is now Algeria.<\/p>\n 1189 \u2013 Forces of the 3rd Crusade under the command of Guy of Lusignan begin the Siege of Acre.<\/p>\n 1521 \u2013 The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade, Serbia.<\/p>\n 1565 \u2013 Pedro Men\u00e9ndez de Avil\u00e9s founds St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied European\u00a0established city in the continental U.S.<\/p>\n 1609 \u2013 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.<\/p>\n 1830 \u2013 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb<\/em> steam locomotive races\u00a0\u00a0a horse drawn rail car, and although pulling far away at the beginning, suffers a mechanical failure and ultimately loses.<\/p>\n 1845 \u2013 The first issue of Scientific American<\/em> magazine is published.<\/p>\n 1861 \u2013Combined Union Army and Naval forces begin an attack that ends with the capture of the Hatteras Inlet Batteries near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas begins in Prince William County, Virginia.<\/p>\n 1867 \u2013Captain William Reynolds of USS Lackawanna<\/em> formally takes possession of Midway Atoll, which is later built up to be used as a mid-Pacific supply point.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 Caleb Bradham’s beverage “Brad’s Drink” is renamed “Pepsi-Cola”.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 Germany declares war on Romania. Italy declares war on Germany.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 U.S. Army troops land at the Atsugi airfield, Kanagawa Prefecture, to prepare for arrival of the 11th Airborne Division to begin the occupation of Japan. Combatant elements of Naval Task Force 31 enter Tokyo bay in preparation for the arrival of Naval Task Force 38 and the flagship USS Missouri.<\/em><\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957;<\/em> stopping 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n 1988 \u2013 3 jet aircraft of the Italian Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide over Ramstein Air Base and the wreckage falls into the crowd, killing 75 people and seriously injuring 346 more.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 Convicted spy John Anthony Walker completes his life sentence by dying of unknown causes in the Federal Prison at Butner, North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 28 430 \u2013 Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Saint Augustine, dies in Hippo Regius, Numidia, in what is now Algeria. 1189 \u2013 Forces of the 3rd Crusade under the command of Guy of Lusignan begin the Siege of Acre. 1521 \u2013 The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade, Serbia. 1565 \u2013 Pedro Men\u00e9ndez de Avil\u00e9s founds St. Augustine, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58785"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95483,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58785\/revisions\/95483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}