August 28
What happened on this day:
1565 St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1898 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink Pepsi-Cola””.”
1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream”” speech.”
1972 Mark Spitz gets his first of seven Olympic gold medals in swimming.
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Famous Birthdays:
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1828 Leo Tolstoy : Author wrote War and Peace
1958 Scott Hamilton : Gold medal figure skater
1965 Shania Twain : Country Music Singer
1969 Jason Priestley : Movie Actor
1969 Jack Black : Movie Actor
1971 Janet Evans : Swimmer
1982 LeAnn Rimes : Country Music Singer
1991 Kyle Massey : Movie Actor played Cory on Cory in the House
