History for August 28 - On-This-Day.com
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749, Elizabeth Ann Seton 1774 - She was also the first American-born saint beatified by the Roman Catholic Church., Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 1828
David Soul 1943 - Actor ("Starsky and Hutch"), Shania Twain 1965 - Country singer, LeAnn Rimes 1982 - Singer
1939 - The first successful flight of a jet-propelled airplane took place. The plane was a German Heinkel He 178.
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, DC. More than 200,000 people attended.
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