📅 August 28 · Battle of Newburn, Enceladus, 1909 Monterrey hurricane, I Have a Dream, 243 Ida

Friday, August 28, 2026 All day

August 28 in history: • 1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England. → go there • 1789 – With the first use of his 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus (pictured). → go there • 1909 – The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico. → go there • 1963 – American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. → go there • 1993 – The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon. → go there Died 919: He Gui Wiki link Died 1646: Johannes Banfi Hunyades Wiki link Born 1954: Katharine Abraham Wiki link Born 1971: Alex Polizzi Wiki link Pictured: [[Enceladus]] imaged by the ''[[Cassini–Huygens.

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📅 August 28 · Battle of Newburn, Enceladus, 1909 Monterrey hurricane, I Have a Dream, 243 Ida