THURSDAY, Aug. 28, 2025

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

1609-English explorer Henry Hudson is the first European to sail into Delaware Bay, naming it South Bay

1830-The first American-built locomotive, "Tom Thumb," races a horse-drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills; due to mechanical problems, the horse wins!

1845-Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1963-Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1994-First Japanese Gay Pride Parade

2019-Climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage