August 28

In literary history

• 1963Martin Luther King delivered 'I Have a Dream' at the Lincoln Memorial to 250,000 people, departing from his prepared text when Mahalia Jackson called out 'Tell 'em about the dream, Martin.' The improvised passage became the most quoted in American oratory.

Writers born on August 28

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749),
• Sheridan Le Fanu (1814)

The Daily Canon for August 28

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832).