August 28th is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining.
Events:
- 1521: The Turks occupy Belgrade?
- 1565: St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest remaining European occupation 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 starts the first railway service in the United States.
- 1849: After a siege of over one month, Venice?, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
- 1850: Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin? premieres.
- 1867: The United States occupy [Midway Island]?.
- 1879: Cetshwayo?, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the English.
- 1883: Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire.
- 1884: First known photograph of a tornado? is made.
- 1913: [Queen Wilhelmina]? opens the [Peace Palace]? in The Hague.
- 1914: The British fleet beats the German in the [Battle of Helgoland]?.
- 1916: Germany declares war on Romania.
- 1916: Italy declares war on Germany.
- 1917: Ten suffragette?s are arrested when picketing the White House.
- 1938: The concentration camp Mauthausen? is opened.
- 1943: In Denmark, a universal 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 people's civil rights rally in Washington DC, Martin Luther King gives his famous I Have A Dream speech.
- 1972: During the Olympic Games of Munich, [Mark Spitz]? gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
- 1979: An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
- 1981: The National Center for Disease Control announces a high incidence of Pneumocystis? and [Kaposi's sarcoma]? in gay men. Soon, these will be considered symptoms of an illness of the immune system, which will be called AIDS.
- 1986: [Stage of siege]? called 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; 70 people die.
- 1990: Iraq declares Kuwait to be a province.
- 1993: A dam breaks in Qinghai?, West China. 223 die.
- 1993: 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
- 1993: [Teng Cheong]? elected president of Singapore
- 1994: First [gay pride march]? in Japan.
- 1995: A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The NATO action against Bosnian Serb?s was a reaction to this incident.
- 1996: Britain's [prince Charles]? and princess Diana are divorced.
- 1998: A new legal system, based on the Koran, is established in Pakistan.
- 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:
Deaths:
- 1481: Alphonso V (king of Portugal)
- 1818: [Jean Baptiste Point du Sable]? (founder of Chicago)
- 1900: [Henry Sidgwick]? (philosopher)
- 1919: [Louis Botha]? (leader of the Boer?s in South Africa)
- 1943: [Boris III]? (king of Bulgaria)
- 1990: [Willy Vandersteen]? (cartoonist) ([[Suske & Wiske]])
- 1995: [Michael Ende]? (author) (Neverending Story)
Holidays etc.:
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