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What Happened on August 28th This Day in History

Year	Name
2017	China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two month-long stalemate over China’s construction of a road in disputed territory.
2016	The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System was successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
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.
1999	The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
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.
1996	Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.
1993	NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
1993	Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.[8]
1993	The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina was transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
1990	Gulf War: 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.
1973	Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.
1968	Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching".
1964	The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1963	March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
1957	U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the 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.
1946	The Workers’ Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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.
1936	Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
1924	The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1921	Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolved the Makhnovshchina, after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine.
1917	Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.
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.
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	Anglo-Zulu War: 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.
1850	Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
1849	Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire: 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	The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the British Empire with exceptions.
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	Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
1789	William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
1709	Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1648	Second English Civil War: 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	Ottoman wars in Europe: 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
1954	Katharine Abraham, American feminist economist
1899	James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (d. 1976)
1979	Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player
1982	Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1884	Peter Fraser, Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
1941	Paul Plishka, American opera singer
1965	Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game developer; created Pokémon
1969	Sheryl Sandberg, American business executive
1954	John Dorahy, Australian rugby player and coach
1951	Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter

Famous People Deaths On August 28

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Date	Name
919	He Gui, Chinese general (b. 858)
1757	David Hartley, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1705)
1646	Johannes Banfi Hunyades, English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (b. 1576)
1982	Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (b. 1911)
1987	John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1965	Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
1993	William Stafford, American poet and academic (b. 1914)
2017	Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938)
1481	Afonso V, king of Portugal (b. 1432)
1784	Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (b. 1713)