28 AUGUST

1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan

1609 English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay

1830 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Famous Birthday's

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832)

Jack Kirby
(1917 - 1994)

Shania Twain
52nd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Albert Frederick
(1553 - 1618)

Frederick Law Olmsted
(1822 - 1903)

Emmett Till
(1941 - 1955)

Famous Weddings

1775 Statesman John Hancock (38) weds hostess Dorothy Quincy (28) in Fairfield, Connecticut

1811 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16)

1924 British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36)

1968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown

1997 British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West

Famous Divorces

1953 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (36) divorces bass player Ray Brown (27) after 6 years of marriage

2009 Blake Fielder-Civil (27) divorces Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (25) due to adultery after 2 years of marriage