Today is Monday, August 28th, the 240th day of the year. There are 125
days remaining until the end of the year.
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES National Catfish Month,
National Golf Month, National Picnic Month, Peach Month,
Romance Awareness Month, Be Kind to Humankind Week,
Race Your Mouse Day
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
Eugene Byrd, 48, actor
Nate Washington, 40, football player
Tanisha Thomas, 38, reality star
Jeff Green, 37, basketball player
Kyle Massey, 32, actor
Quvenzhane Wallis, 20, actress
HISTORIC BIRTHDAYS
Rokie Roker, 94, actress (The Jeffersons) (d. 1995)
DEATHS
Jean Baptiste Pont Du Sable, 1818, founder of Chicago (b. 1750)
Emmett Till, 1955, murder victim (b. 1941)
ON THIS DATE IN…
1565 – The oldest city in the U.S. and the location of all Black, Fort Mose, St.
Augustine, Fla. is established.
1864 – Fugitive slave laws repealed by Congress.
1949 – Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, N.Y.
1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi,
galvanizing the nascent Civil Rights Movement.
1957 – Sen. Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate
from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours
and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single
Senator.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: the Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his “I Have A Dream” speech.
1968 – Riots in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention.
1978 – Alan Bakke wins reverse discrimination case when the Supreme
Court orders the Univ. of California Medical School at Davis to admit
him.
1986 – Tina Turner’s star unveiled in Hollywood.
2003 – 20th MTV Awards: Missy Elliott, Beyonce fea. Jay-Z & Justin
Timberlake win.
2005 – Hurricane Katrina hammers the south eastern United States,
especially New Orleans, Louisiana, and coastal Mississippi.
HOROSCOPE
While choosing a career path is always difficult, your sociability, generosity and focus create a variety of career options for you to select from. Among the many communication based careers, writing, education or sales may be especially rewarding for you. Your quick whit may lead you to pursue a career in entertainment. If this is the case, look to the comedic work of Jack Black or the commercial success of Shania twain, who were both born on August 28th, for encouragement.
