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Third Crusade / I Have a Dream / Charles and Diana

On This Day (August 28): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
August 28, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

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Good morning. It's Thursday, August 28, and we're exploring the Third Crusade, Tomb Thumb's race, the famous "I Have a Dream" speech, Princess Diana and Prince Charles's divorce, Britney Spears and Madonna's infamous kiss, and much more.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1189

The Third Crusade began with the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.

-1609

Henry Hudson was the first European to explore Delaware Bay, which he named South Bay after.

-1830

"Tom Thumb," the first American-built locomotive, races a horse-drawn car from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills; the horse wins due to mechanical problems!

-1845

The first issue of the Scientific American magazine was published.

-1879

During the Anglo-Zulu War, King Cetshwayo, the last great ruler of Zululand, was captured by the British.

-1963

During the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.

-1965

During a concert at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, Bob Dylan gets booed for playing an electric guitar.

-1996

Princess Diana and Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, divorced after four years of separation.

-2003

Britney Spears and Madonna shared a passionate kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards, which became an instantly iconic moment of early 2000s pop culture.

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