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August 28
(Redirected from 28 August)
August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining.
Events
400-1899
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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.
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Sunday, August 28, 489 - Theoderic, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
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Sunday, August 21, 1521 - The Turks occupy Belgrade
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Saturday, August 28, 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
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Friday, August 28, 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
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Wednesday, August 28, 1619 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
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1830 - The Tom Thumb starts the first railway service in the United States.
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1833 - Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire.
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1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes first issue
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1849 - After a siege of over one month, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
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1850 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres.
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1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run- also known as the battle of Second Manassas
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1867 - The United States occupies Midway Island.
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1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
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1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made.
1900-1999
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1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
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1914 - The British fleet beats the German fleet in the so-called Battle of Heligoland Bight (actually a comparatively minor engagement).
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1916 - Germany declares war on Romania.
- 1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.
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1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
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1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
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1943 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
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1944 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
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1955 - Black Mississippi boy Emmett Till is murdered for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
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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.
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1968 - Riots in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention
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1972 - During the Olympic Games of Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
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1975 - Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
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1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
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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.
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1986 - Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
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1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
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1988 - At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
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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.
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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
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1994 - First gay pride march in Japan.
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1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The NATO action against Bosnian Serbs was a reaction to this incident.
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1996 - Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced.
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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
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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
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1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist (d. 1990)
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1904 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (d. 1980)
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1906 - John Betjeman, poet (d. 1984)
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1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist, illustrator
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1911 - Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
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1913 - Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright (d. 1995)
- 1913 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
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1917 - Jack Kirby, comic book artist (d. 1994)
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1924 - Janet Frame, author
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1925 - Donald O'Connor, singer, dancer, actor
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1929 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
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1930 - Ben Gazzara, actor
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1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
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1938 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television anchorman
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1943 - David Soul, actor
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1943 - Lou Piniella, baseball manager
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1947 - Liza Wang, actress (to be included)
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1951 - Benji Durden , Olympic marathon
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1957 - Daniel Stern, actor
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1958 - Scott Hamilton, Olympic Games gold medal winning figure skater
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1960 - Emma Samms, actress
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1961 - Kim Appleby, singer (Mel & Kim )
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1965 - Shania Twain, singer
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1968 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor, played Pippin in the Lord of the Rings
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1969 - Jason Priestley, actor
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1971 - Janet Evans, Olympic swimmer
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1980 - Eric Schomburg, author
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1981 - Martin Erat, NHL hockey player
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1980 - Debra Lafave, teacher
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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
Last updated: 05-22-2005 00:18:52
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