A Siege of Herons

August 28 in History

After a delay due to cable going out for a few hours, I present, sans plus de cérémonies:

On August 28,

• 1565: St. Augustine, Florida was established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
• 1609: Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
• 1830: The Tom Thumb started the first railway service in the united States.
• 1845: Scientific American published its first issue.
• 1861: Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, fell to Union troops after a two-day operation.
• 1864: Union General Alfred Terry is promoted from brigadier general to major general of the United State Volunteers.
• 1908: Future President Lyndon Johnson was born near Stonewall, Texas.
• 1937: The Toyota Motor Company became a corporation, originally having been a division of the Toyota Automatic Loom Works.
• 1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of Price Administration, charged with controlling prices in the face of war. Also on this day, more than twenty-three thousand Hungarian Jews were murdered by the Gestapo in the occupied Ukraine.
• 1962: The United States launched the Mariner II probe, which flew past Venus in December of that year.
• 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. gave the well-known "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington.
• 1968: After three hours of debate, the Democratic National Convention endorsed the Johnson Administration's platform on the Vietnam War, nominating Vice President Hubert Humphrey as the Democrat candidate for the Presidency. Outside, a full-scale riot erupted, seeing antiwar protesters battling police and National Guardsmen.
• 1972: President Nixon announced that the military draft would end by July of the following year.
• 1987: Famed director John Huston died at age 81.

Sources: The History Channel, The Indianapolis Star, Wikipedia

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