August 25 1978 Albino Cardinal Luciani was elected pope as John Paul I, but he died of a heart attack 33 days later. Sean Connery British actor Born August 25, 1930 Edinburgh, Scotland Died October 31, 2020 (aged 90) The Bahamas
August 26, 2011 The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Boeing’s all-new composite airliner, receives certification from the EASA and the FAA
August 27 1859 Edwin Laurentine Drake struck oil while drilling in Titusville, Pennsylvania, becoming the first driller of a productive oil well in the United States. 1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was assassinated by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who placed on a bomb on his boat, which was in Donegal Bay, Ireland.
August 28th, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
August 29 1833 Britain’s 1st Factory Act becomes law "to regulate the Labour of Children and young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom" 1844 1st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win When the Mohawk Lacrosse Team Played at the Olympics 1904 1882 Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket" with Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth posting 14-90 (7-46 & 7-44)