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August 28

3 sourced moments from August 28 in history: Henry Hudson Reached Delaware Bay (1609); Herschel found Enceladus in 1789; it was named in 1847; and Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech (1963).

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3 things happened on August 28

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1963 Society & Economy · Politics & Law

Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King turned a scripted address into an improvised vision that reshaped the civil rights era.

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1789 Space · Solar System

Herschel found Enceladus in 1789; it was named in 1847

William Herschel spotted Saturn's sixth moon with the world's largest telescope; it waited 58 years for a name and two centuries to reveal its ocean.

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1609 Geography · Borders & Maps

Henry Hudson Reached Delaware Bay

Sailing for the Dutch in search of a shortcut to Asia, an English captain stumbled into a wide American bay instead.

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