August 28

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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.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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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
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 Zulus, is captured by the British.
1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made.
1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
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.
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 Mississippian 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 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, 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 Japanese 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.