Today in History - 28 August, 2025

Notable Events, Birthdays & Anniversaries

28 August 2025

Events

• 1845
  First issue of Scientific American published.
• 1963
  Martin Luther King Jr. delivers “I Have a Dream” speech.
• 2005
  Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana, USA.

Birthdays

• 1749
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German writer.
• 1965
  Shania Twain — Canadian singer.

Death Anniversaries

• 1900
  William Archibald Spooner — English scholar.