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This Date in History (Aug. 28)

1981 – John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Ronald Reagan.

1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.

2005 – New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered everyone in the city to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina.

2008 – Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination with a speech at Invesco Field in Denver.