Today in History: August 28, Emmett Till’s brutalized body found

In the current era is Thursday Aug the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On Aug 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 detected brutally slain three days later Also on this date In the first issue of Scientific American magazine was published it remains the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States Related Articles Amish woman accused of killing her -year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake Nvidia s AI chip sales surged again in latest quarter but worries about a tech bubble persist Pro-DEI organizers fired up to maintain Target boycott as promises go unfulfilled A Mississippi city s tax break spurred post-Katrina building But will homes stand the next storm A deadly truck crash in Florida has fueled an immigration fight Here s what to know In the Second Battle of Bull Run began in Prince William County Virginia during the Civil War the Union army retreated two days later after suffering casualties In pharmacist Caleb Bradham of New Bern North Carolina changed the name of the carbonated beverage he d created five years earlier from Brad s Drink to Pepsi-Cola In then U S Senator Strom Thurmond D-South Carolina began what remains the longest speaking filibuster in Senate history hours and minutes seeking to stall the passage of the Civil Rights Act of that year In during the March on Washington the Rev Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I Have a Dream speech before an estimated people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D C In police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets of Chicago as the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H Humphrey for president In 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 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation as Hurricane Katrina approached the city In a military jury sentenced Maj Nidal Hasan to death for the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that claimed lives and left people injured In six scientists completed a yearlong Mars simulation on the big island of Hawaii where they emerged after living in a dome in near isolation on Mauna Loa This day s Birthdays Actor Ken Jenkins TV Scrubs is Former MLB manager and participant Lou Piniella pih-NEHL -uh is Former MLB pitcher Ron Guidry GIH -dree is Former U S Poet Laureate Rita Dove is Artist Ai Weiwei is Actor Daniel Stern is Olympic gold medal figure skater Scott Hamilton is Actor Jennifer Coolidge is Film director David Fincher is Country singer Shania shah-NY -uh Twain is Pokemon creator Satoshi Tajiri is Actor Billy Boyd is Actor Jack Black is Hockey Hall of Famer Pierre Turgeon is Actor Jason Priestley is Olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans is Actor Carly Pope is Country singer Jake Owen is Country singer LeAnn Rimes is Rock singer Florence Welch Florence and the Machine is Actor Quvenzhane kwuh-VEHN -zhah-nay Wallis is