Historical Events for 28th August 2023

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1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1918 - Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly
1939 - Netherland mobilizes
1966 - 27th Venice Film Festival: "The Battle of Algiers" directed by Gillo Pontecorvo wins Golden Lion
1988 - 70 killed in crash of three Italian air force fighters at air show at Ramstein, Germany
1990 - Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
1994 - 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
2011 - Canadian Open Women's Golf, Hillsdale CC: Brittany Lincicome wins by 1 stroke from Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis
2017 - Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail
2018 - Aretha Franklin lies in state at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit in a 24 carat coffin

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