Missed a day again! :( On August 28th in history: In 1648 during the English Civil War Royalist forces in Colchester surrendered to Parliamentarian forces after an 11-week siege. In 1657 John Lilburne, leader of Levellers during the English Revolution, died. In 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, playwright, author and diplomat, was born. In 1830 the first threshing machine was destroyed at Lower Hardres, near Canterbury, England. In 1833 the Slaver Abolition Act abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire received the royal assent. In 1844 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels met for the first time in person at the Café de la Régence on the Place du Palais in Paris. In 1849 after a month-long siege Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrendered to the Austrians. In 1848 Mathieu Luis became the first Black member of the French parliament as a representative of Guadaloupe. In 1879 Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, was captured by the British. In 1896 Liam OFlaherty, left-wing Irish author, was born. In 1907 the Belfast Dock Strike (led by James Larkin) ended after 4 months. In 1916 Germany declared war on Romania. In 1916 C. Wright Mills, left-wing American sociologist and author, was born. In 1917 10 American Suffragettes were arrested while picketing the White House in Washington DC. In 1923 the Georgian opposition staged the August Uprising against Soviet rule in Georgia. In 1941 the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR decreed the deportation of all Volga Germans to Siberia and Kazakhstan because of alleged collaboration with the German invaders. In 1943 in Denmark a general strike started against the German occupation. In 1955 African American teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi, after allegedly flirting with a white woman. In 1957 Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and human rights campaigner, was born. In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to over 250,000 demonstrators during the March on Washington. In 1964 race riot broke out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1968 riots broke out in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic Party National Convention. In 1987 John Huston, American film director, died. In 1987 John Sayless film “Matewan” about attempts by coal miners to organise a union was released. In 1990 Iraq declared Kuwait to be its newest province. In 1994 1,500+ marched in Japan’s first gay pride parade in Tokyo.
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