Once Upon A Time – August 28 – 1972 – Soviet Gymnast, Olga Korbut Wins Gold In Teams all-round At Munich Olympics

1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan

1609 English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay

1830 1st American built locomotive, “Tom Thumb” races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I have a dream” speech addressing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Historical Events Today
Today in Film & TV
1956 17th Venice Film Festival opens. No Golden Lion awarded

Today in Music
1965 Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guitar In concert at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York City

Today in Sport
1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes media darling at the Munich Olympics; wins gold in the teams all-round ; follows with 2 gold and a silver

MORE FACTS…
1837 Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce

1917 Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House

Famous Weddings
1775 Statesman John Hancock (38) weds hostess Dorothy Quincy (28) in Fairfield, Connecticut

1811 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16)

1924 British children’s writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36)