Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 28
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August 28: Feast of Dormition/Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar)
- 1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in Weimar, present-day Germany.
- 1914 – In the first naval battle of World War I, British ships defeated the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea.
- 1924 – The August Uprising, an unsuccessful insurrection against the Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, began.
- 1955 – African-American teenager Emmett Till was murdered near Money, Mississippi, for flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- 1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., describing his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals.