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August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining.
Events
- 475 - The Pannonian general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints Romulus Augustus in his place.
- 489 - Theodoric , king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle Of Isonzo , forcing his way into Italy.
- 1521 - The Turks occupy Belgrade
- 1542 - Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle Of Wofla . The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão Da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
- 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida , established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States .
- 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay .
- 1619 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire .
- 1830 - The '' Tom Thumb '' presages the first railway service in the United States.
- 1845 - '' Scientific American '' magazine publishes its first issue
- 1849 - After a month-long siege, Venice , which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria .
- 1850 - Richard Wagner 's opera '' Lohengrin '' premieres in Weimar, Germany .
- 1862 - Second Battle Of Bull Run , also known as the battle of Second Manassas
- 1867 - The United States occupies Midway Island .
- 1879 - Cetshwayo , last king of the Zulu s, is captured by the British.
- 1884 - First known photograph of a Tornado is made.
- 1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink " Pepsi-Cola ".
- 1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington .
- 1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague .
- 1914 - The British Fleet beats the German fleet in the Battle Of Heligoland Bight .
- 1916 - Germany declares war on Romania .
- 1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.
- 1917 - Ten Suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House .
- 1918 - PFC Spartak Varna founded.
- 1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
- 1943 - In Denmark , a General Strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- 1944 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
- 1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan 's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- 1955 - Black Mississippi an Emmett Till is murdered, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her ''baby''.
- 1963 - During a 200,000-person Civil Rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. , Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous '' I Have A Dream '' speech.
- 1964 - The Philadelphia Race Riot began.
- 1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois , during the Democratic National Convention
- 1971 - The Dollar is allowed to float against the Yen for the first time.
- 1972 - During the Olympic Games in Munich , Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in Swimming events.
- 1975 - Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
- 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels .
- 1981 - The National Centers For Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's Sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an Immune disorder, which will be called AIDS .
- 1986 - Stage of siege declared in Bolivia .
- 1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years Imprisonment for Espionage for the Soviet Union .
- 1988 - At an air show in Ramstein , West Germany , three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
- 1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest Province .
- 1990 - , and Joliet, Illinois , killing 28 people.
- 1991 - A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City . The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.
- 1993 - A dam breaks in Qinghai , China . 223 die.
- 1993 - 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan .
- 1993 - Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore
- 1994 - First Japan ese Gay Pride March .
- 1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo , Bosnia .
- 1996 - Britain's Charles, Prince Of Wales , and Diana, Princess Of Wales , are divorced.
- 1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a Constitutional Amendment to make the " Qur'an and Sunnah " the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate .
- 2001 - Dutch prime minister Wim Kok announces that he will not be available for another term as PvdA party leader or prime minister after the 2002 elections.
- 2005 - A Mandatory Evacuation is ordered by New Orleans, Louisiana mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco as Hurricane Katrina moved nearer to Louisiana.
Births
- 1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068 )
- 1582 (O.S.) - Taichang Emperor , of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620 )
- 1592 - George Villiers, 1st Duke Of Buckingham , English statesman (d. 1628 )
- 1612 - Marcus Zuerius Van Boxhorn , Dutch scholar (d. 1653 )
- 1714 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke Of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774 )
- 1749 - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe , German writer and scientist (d. 1832 )
- 1774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton , American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821 )
- 1814 - Sheridan Le Fanu , Irish writer (d. 1873 )
- 1828 (O.S.) - Leo Tolstoy , Russian writer (d. 1910 )
- 1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim , Scottish merchant in Japan
- 1849 - Benjamin Godard , French composer (d. 1895 )
- 1853 - Vladimir Shukhov , Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939 )
- 1867 - Umberto Giordano , Italian composer (d. 1948 )
- 1878 - George Whipple , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1976 )
- 1894 - Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor (d. 1981 )
- 1899 - Charles Boyer , French actor (d. 1978 )
- 1903 - Bruno Bettelheim , American psychologist (d. 1990 )
- 1904 - Secondo Campini , Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980 )
- 1906 - John Betjeman , English poet (d. 1984 )
- 1908 - Roger Tory Peterson , American ornithologist and illustrator (d. 1996 )
- 1910 - Tjalling Koopmans , Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985 )
- 1911 - Joseph Luns , Dutch politician (d. 2002 )
- 1913 - Robertson Davies , Canadian writer (d. 1995 )
- 1913 - Richard Tucker , American tenor (d. 1975 )
- 1916 - Jack Vance , American author
- 1917 - Jack Kirby , American comic book artist (d. 1994 )
- 1919 - Godfrey Hounsfield , English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 2004 )
- 1924 - Janet Frame , New Zealand author
- 1924 - Peggy Ryan , American actress (d. 2004 )
- 1925 - Donald O'Connor , American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003 )
- 1929 - Istvan Kertesz , Hungarian conductor (d. 1973 )
- 1930 - Ben Gazzara , American actor
- 1931 - John Shirley-Quirk , English bass-baritone
- 1932 - Andy Bathgate , Canadian Ice Hockey player
- 1938 - Paul Martin , Prime Minister Of Canada
- 1938 - Maurizio Costanzo , Italian television journalist
- 1941 - Baroness Sybille De Selys Longchamps , Belgian aristocrat
- 1942 - Sterling Morrison , American guitarist ( The Velvet Underground ) (d. 1995 )
- 1943 - David Soul , American actor
- 1943 - Lou Piniella , baseball manager
- 1944 - Marianne Heemskerk , Dutch swimmer
- 1944 - Melvin Dummar , claimed Howard Hughes heir
- 1947 - Liza Wang , Hong Kong actress
- 1952 - Rita Dove , former U.S. poet laureate
- 1957 - Daniel Stern , American actor
- 1957 - Rick Rossovich , American actor
- 1958 - Scott Hamilton , American figure skater
- 1960 - Emma Samms , English actress
- 1961 - Kim Appleby , British singer
- 1965 - Amanda Tapping , Canadian actress
- 1965 - Shania Twain , Canadian singer
- 1966 - René Higuita , Colombian footballer
- 1968 - Billy Boyd , Scottish actor
- 1969 - Jason Priestley , Canadian actor
- 1969 - Jack Black , American actor and musician
- 1971 - Todd Eldredge , American figure skater
- 1971 - Janet Evans , American swimmer
- 1978 - Jess Margera , American drummer
- 1979 - Robert Hoyzer , German football referee
- 1979 - Markus Pröll , German footballer
- 1981 - Martin Erat , Czech hockey player
- 1982 - LeAnn Rimes , American singer
Deaths
- 388 - Magnus Maximus , Roman Usurper against Valentinian III
- 430 - Augustine Of Hippo , North African saint and theologian (b. 354 )
- 1341 - King Leo V Of Armenia (murdered) (b. 1309 )
- 1481 - King Afonso V Of Portugal (b. 1432 )
- 1645 - Hugo Grotius , Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583 )
- 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna , Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583 )
- 1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley Of Stratton , English soldier (b. 1602 )
- 1757 - David Hartley , English philosopher (b. 1705 )
- 1784 - Junípero Serra , Spanish Franciscan missionary (b. 1713 )
- 1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle , French sculptor (b. 1714 )
- 1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte De Custine , French general (executed) (b. 1740 )
- 1805 - Alexander Carlyle , Scottish church leader (b. 1722 )
- 1818 - Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable , founder of Chicago
- 1839 - William Smith , English geologist (b. 1769 )
- 1900 - Henry Sidgwick , English philosopher (b. 1838 )
- 1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted , American landscape architect (b. 1822 )
- 1919 - Louis Botha , Boer leader (b. 1862 )
- 1943 - King Boris III Of Bulgaria (b. 1894 )
- 1959 - Bohuslav Martinů , Romanian composer (b. 1890 )
- 1965 - Giulio Racah , Israeli physicist (b. 1909 )
- 1975 - Fritz Wotruba , Austrian sculptor (b. 1907 )
- 1981 - Béla Guttman , Hungarian footballer (b. 1900 )
- 1985 - Ruth Gordon , American actress (b. 1896 )
- 1987 - John Huston , American movie director (b. 1906 )
- 1990 - Willy Vandersteen , Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913 )
- 1993 - William Stafford , American writer (b. 1914 )
- 1995 - Michael Ende , German writer (b. 1929 )
- 2005 - Esther Szekeres , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910 )
- 2005 - George Szekeres , Hungarian mathematican (b. 1911 )
Holidays and observances
External links
August 27 - August 29 - July 28 - September 28 – Listing Of All Days
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