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This is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining in 2024.

It was on this date in 1565, that Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sighted land near St. Augustine, Florida and founded the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
August 28, 1609, Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
That same date in 1830, The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive raced a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in U.S. railroads.
It was also this date in 1845 that The first issue of Scientific American magazine was published.
The Carrington event was the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service was widely disrupted on this date in 1859.
It was on this date in 1898, that Caleb Bradham’s beverage “Brad’s Drink” was renamed “Pepsi-Cola”.
Also on August 28, 1937, Toyota Motors became an independent company.
Also today in 1993, NASA’s Galileo probe performed a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discovered a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
August 28, 1999, The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reached completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approached the end of its life.
It was on this date in 2016, that The first experimental mission of ISRO’s Scramjet Engine towards the realization of an Air Breathing Propulsion System was successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota..

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

French mathematician and philosopher, Antoine Augustin Cournot, born on this date in 1801.
Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate, Tjalling Koopmans was born 114 years ago today.
American author and illustrator, Jack Kirby, born on this date in 1917.
Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate was born on that same date in 1919.
John Herbert Chapman, the Canadian physicist and engineer was born 103 years ago today.
American atmospheric scientist Warren M. Washington is 88 today.
English mathematician and academic, John Kingman, born on this date in 1939.
Also born on that same date in 1954, American geneticist, chemist, and engineer, George M. Church.
British-Canadian actress and director, Amanda Tapping is 59 today.
Also turning 56 today is Scottish actor and singer Billy Boyd.
Also born on that same date in 1969, American actor and comedian, Jack Black.
Swedish game designer and programmer, Johan Andersson, born on this date in 1974.

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