Today in History - History - August 28th

200320th MTV Awards: Missy Elliott, Beyoncé f/ Jay-Z & Justin Timberlake wins

1850Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar, Germany

199494th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

1983Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic

1977Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year

1981John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan

1921Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games

1965Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guiter at a concert in New York's Forest Hills

1943Benito Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso

1962Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"

1917Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America)

1965Shania Twain, Windsor Ontario, Canadian singer (You're Still the One)

1749Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust), (d. 1832)

1774Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975), (d. 1821)

1969Pierre Turgeon, Rouyn Quebec, NHL center (NY Islanders, Montreal Canadiens)

1938Paul Martin, Windsor Ontario, 21st Prime Minister of Canada (2003-2006)

1999Actress Cathy Moriarty (38) weds financier Joseph Gentile

2004"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Mariska Hargitay (40) weds actor-writer Peter Hermann (37) at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, California

2009Blake Fielder-Civil (27) divorces Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (25) due to adultery after 2 years of marriage

1953Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (36) divorces bass player Ray Brown (27) after 6 years of marriage

1903Frederick Law Olmsted, American writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park) dies aged 81

1955Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi