Youtube star Johnnie Guilbert

Events in 1997 and 28-8

Events in US in the birth year of Johnnie Guilbert

• US shuttle joins Russian space station (Jan. 17).
• O. J. Simpson found liable in civil suit (Feb. 5).
• Heaven's Gate cult members commit mass suicide in California (March 27).
• US Appeals Court upholds California ban on affirmative action (April 8).
• Clinton exercises new line-item veto (Aug. 11).
• Timothy J. McVeigh sentenced to death for Oklahoma City bombing (Aug. 14).
• Two convicted in New York Trade Center bombing (Nov. 12).

Birthday Johnnie Guilbert (28-8) in history

• Day 28-8 year 1609: British explorer Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay, USA.
• Day 28-8 year 1850: Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin , premiered at Weimar, Germany.
• Day 28-8 year 1922: The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
• Day 28-8 year 1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.
• Day 28-8 year 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.
• Day 28-8 year 1968: Anti-Vietnam war protesters and police clashed in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
• Day 28-8 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.