August 28
August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining.
Events
400-1899
Wednesday, August 28, 475 - The German general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints Romulus Augustus in his place.
Sunday, August 28, 489 - Theoderic , king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo , forcing his way into Italy .
Sunday, August 21, 1521 - The Turks occupy Belgrade
Saturday, August 28, 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida , established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States .
Friday, August 28, 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay .
Wednesday, August 28, 1619 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire .
1830 - The Tom Thumb starts the first railway service in the United States .
1833 - Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire .
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes first issue
1849 - After a siege of over one month, Venice , which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria .
1850 - Richard Wagner 's opera Lohengrin 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 Zulus , is captured by the British .
1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made.
1900-1999
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague .
1914 - The British fleet beats the German fleet in the so-called Battle of Heligoland Bight (actually a comparatively minor engagement).
1916 - Germany declares war on Romania .
1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House .
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.
1955 - Black Mississippi boy Emmett Till is murdered 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 1968 - Riots in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention
1972 - During the Olympic Games of 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 a province of Iraq .
1990 - The Plainfield Tornado : An F5 tornado hit in Plainfield, Illinois and Joliet, Illinois killing 28 people.
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 gay pride march in Japan .
1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo , Bosnia . The NATO action against Bosnian Serbs was a reaction to this incident.
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 was defeated in the Senate .
2000-2099
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.
Births
1000-1899
1900-1999
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim , psychologist (d. 1990 )
1904 - Secondo Campini , Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980 )
1906 - John Betjeman , poet (d. 1984 )
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson , ornithologist, illustrator
1911 - Joseph Luns , Dutch politician (d. 2002 )
1913 - Robertson Davies , novelist, playwright (d. 1995 )
1913 - Richard Tucker , American tenor (d. 1975 )
1917 - Jack Kirby , comic book artist (d. 1994 )
1924 - Janet Frame , author
1925 - Donald O'Connor , singer, dancer, actor
1929 - Istvan Kertesz , Hungarian conductor (d. 1973 )
1930 - Ben Gazzara , actor
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk , English bass-baritone
1938 - Maurizio Costanzo , Italian television anchorman
1943 - David Soul , actor
1943 - Lou Piniella , baseball manager
1947 - Liza Wang , actress (to be included)
1951 - Benji Durden , Olympic marathon
1957 - Daniel Stern , actor
1958 - Scott Hamilton , Olympic Games gold medal winning figure skater
1960 - Emma Samms , actress
1961 - Kim Appleby , singer (Mel & Kim )
1965 - Shania Twain , singer
1968 - Billy Boyd , Scottish actor, played Pippin in the Lord of the Rings
1969 - Jason Priestley , actor
1971 - Janet Evans , Olympic swimmer
1980 - Eric Schomburg , author
1981 - Martin Erat , NHL hockey player
1980 - Debra Lafave , teacher
1982 - LeAnn Rimes , singer
Deaths
400-1899
1900-1999
Holidays and observances
External links
August 27 - August 29 - July 28 - September 28 -- listing of all days
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