On this day: August 28
POSTED: 03:07 PM PDT Aug 27, 2012
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Aug 27, 2012
Pepsi and UPS are born, Emmett Till is murdered, Martin Luther King Jr. shares his dream, and Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce, all on this day.
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1565: Spanish explorer and admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near what is now St. Augustine, Fla. Calling the territory San Agustín in honor of the feast day of Augustine of Hippo, Menéndez's settlement will become the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
