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What Happened on August 28th This Day in History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2003 | In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device. |
| 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. |
| 1998 | Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa. |
| 1993 | The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon. |
| 1990 | Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. |
| 1990 | An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. |
| 1988 | Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured. |
| 1968 | The police rioted during the Democratic National Convention, beating up anti-war protesters, peaceful demonstrators, innocent bystanders, and members of the press. |
| 1964 | The Philadelphia race riot begins. |
| 1963 | March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech. |
| 1957 | U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator. |
| 1955 | Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement. |
| 1944 | World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated. |
| 1943 | Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark. |
| 1937 | Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. |
| 1924 | The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. |
| 1917 | Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House. |
| 1916 | World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. |
| 1916 | World War I: Italy declares war on Germany. |
| 1914 | World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. |
| 1914 | World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium. |
| 1913 | Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague. |
| 1909 | A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms. |
| 1901 | Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country. |
| 1898 | Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola". |
| 1879 | Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British. |
| 1867 | The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll. |
| 1862 | American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30. |
| 1861 | American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days. |
| 1859 | The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted. |
| 1849 | After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria. |
| 1845 | The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. |
| 1833 | King William IV gives Royal Assent to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, although slavery remained legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843. |
| 1830 | The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads. |
| 1810 | Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet. |
| 1789 | William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus. |
| 1709 | Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur. |
| 1648 | The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War. |
| 1640 | Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn. |
| 1619 | Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 1609 | Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. |
| 1565 | Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States. |
| 1542 | Turkish-Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed. |
| 1524 | The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. |
| 1521 | The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade. |
| 1189 | Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan. |
| 663 | Silla-Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang. |
| 632 | Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims. |
| 489 | Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy. |
| 475 | The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna. |
Famous People Born on August 28
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| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1986 | Jeff Green, American basketball player |
| 1938 | Bengt Fahlström, Swedish journalist (d. 2017) |
| 1739 | Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer (d. 1818) |
| 1840 | Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (d. 1900) |
| 1954 | Ravi Kanbur, Indian-English economist and academic |
| 1975 | Jamie Cureton, English footballer |
| 1913 | Robert Irving, English conductor and director (d. 1991) |
| 1899 | James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (d. 1976) |
| 1936 | Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire |
| 1481 | Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (d. 1558) |
Famous People Deaths On August 28
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 28. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1645 | Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (b. 1583) |
| 1993 | William Stafford, American poet and academic (b. 1914) |
| 2014 | Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (b. 1956) |
| 1976 | Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958) |
| 2015 | Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920) |
| 876 | Louis the German, Frankish king (b. 804) |
| 2007 | Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress (b. 1929) |
| 2010 | William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (b. 1919) |
| 1995 | Carl Giles, English cartoonist (b. 1916) |
| 2016 | Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950) |
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