Today is Thursday, August 28, the 241st day of 2008. There are 125 days left in the year.
1850 - The opera ``Lohengrin" is produced (Weimar)
1867 - U.S. occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
1916 - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1957 - Sen. Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill
1962 - Dr. Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1963 - 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C.
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr.'s ``I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1981 - John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan
1983 - Israeli P.M. Menachem Begin announces resignation
1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province