August 28th
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- 1830
The first American-built locomotive, Tom Thumb, races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Due to mechanical problems, the horse wins. View Post →
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- 1884
The first known photograph of a tornado is taken near Howard, South Dakota.
- 1925
A meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island.
- 1980
The first use of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to scan the human body occurs at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland.
- 1982
The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
- 1988
Seventy people are killed in the crash of three Italian air force fighters at an air show at Ramstein, Germany.
- 2019
The discovery of a 3.8-million-year-old skull of the early human ancestor Australopithecus anamensis upends previous evolutionary theory. The skull was found by Yohannes Haile-Selassie at Miro Dora, Ethiopia, and the discovery was published in the journal Nature.
- 1963
Martin Luther King delivers his I Have a Dream speech.
- 1963
The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens in Seattle, Washington.
