On Aug. 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted in Money, Mississippi, and found brutally slain three days later. In 1845 the first issue of Scientific American was published, becoming the oldest continuously published U.S. magazine. In 1862 the Second Battle of Bull Run began, and the Union army retreated after heavy casualties. In 1898 Caleb Bradham renamed his beverage Pepsi-Cola. In 1957 Strom Thurmond began a 24-hour-plus filibuster against civil rights legislation. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech. Other events include 1968 convention clashes, the 1988 Ramstein disaster, the 2005 Katrina evacuation, the 2013 Fort Hood sentencing and a 2016 Mars simulation.
Today in history: On Aug. 28,1955, Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had allegedly whistled at a white woman four days prior; he was found brutally slain three days later. Also on this date: In 1845, the first issue of Scientific American magazine was published; it remains the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.
In 1957, then U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (D-South Carolina) began what remains the longest speaking filibuster in Senate history (24 hours and 18 minutes) seeking to stall the passage of the Civil Rights Act of that year. In 1963, during the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech before an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
In 1988, 70 people were killed when three Italian Air Force stunt planes collided during an air show at the U.S. Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany. In 2005, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation as Hurricane Katrina approached the city. In 2013, a military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed 13 lives and left 30 people injured.
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