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Today is Thursday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2025. There are 125 days left in the year.
On Aug. 28,1955, Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle’s home in Money, Mississippi, by two white men after he had allegedly whistled at a white woman four days prior; he was found brutally slain three days later.
In 1845, the first issue of “Scientific American” magazine was published; it remains the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.
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