August 28
Events
475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city , Ravenna .
489 - Theodoric , king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo , forcing his way into Italy .
1189 - Third Crusade : the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1349 - 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz , accused of being the cause of the plague.
1511 - The Portuguese conquer Malacca .
1521 - The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade .
1542 - Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla : the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1565 - St. Augustine, Florida , is 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 .
1640 - Second Bishop's War : King Charles I 's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
1777 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware .
1789 - William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
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 .
1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1862 - American Civil War : Second Battle of Bull Run , also known as the battle of Second Manassas .
1867 - The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Island .
1879 - Cetshwayo , last king of the Zulus , is captured by the British .
1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola ".
1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington .
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague .
1914 - World War I : the Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight .
1914 - World War I: German troops conquer Namur .
1916 - World War I: Germany declares war on Romania .
1916 - World War I: Italy declares war on Germany .
1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House .
1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union .
1931 - France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 - World War II : in Denmark , a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1944 - World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan 's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1961 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes .
1963 - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom : Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois , during the Democratic National Convention .
1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place 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 .
1982 - The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.
1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union .
1988 - Ramstein airshow disaster : three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
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 - Collapse of the Soviet Union : Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1996 - 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 .
2008 - Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party 's nomination, becoming the first African American to be a presidential candidate of a major American political party.
Births
1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068 )
1582 - Taichang Emperor , of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620 )
1592 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham , English statesman (d. 1628 )
1612 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn , Dutch scholar (d. 1653 )
1667 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721 )
1691 - Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750 )
1714 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774 )
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German writer and scientist (d. 1832 )
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton , American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821 )
1789 - Stéphanie de Beauharnais , Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860 )
1801 - Antoine Augustin Cournot , French mathematician (d. 1877 )
1814 - Sheridan le Fanu , Irish writer (d. 1873 )
1827 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894 )
1828 - Leo Tolstoy , Russian author (birthdate according to O.S. ) (d. 1910 )
1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim , Scottish merchant (d. 1900 )
1853 - Vladimir Shukhov , Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939 )
1867 - Umberto Giordano , Italian composer (d. 1948 )
1878 - George Whipple , American scientist and Nobel laureate (d. 1976 )
1885 - Vance Palmer , Australian author (d. 1959 )
1894 - Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor (d. 1981 )
1898 - Charlie Grimm , American baseball player (d. 1983 )
1899 - Charles Boyer , French actor (d. 1978 )
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim , American psychologist (d. 1990 )
1904 - Secondo Campini , Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980 )
1905 - Cyril Walters , England cricketer (d. 1992 )
1906 - John Betjeman , English poet (d. 1984 )
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson , American ornithologist (d. 1996 )
1910 - Tjalling Koopmans , Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985 )
1911 - Joseph Luns , Dutch politician (d. 2002 )
1913 - Robertson Davies , Canadian writer (d. 1995 )
1913 - Richard Tucker , American tenor (d. 1975 )
1913 - Terence Reese , British bridge player (d. 1996 )
1913 - Boris Pahor , Slovenian writer
1913 - Lindsay Hassett , Australian cricketer (d. 1993 )
1915 - Max Robertson , British sports commentator
1915 - Tasha Tudor , American illustrator (d. 2008 )
1916 - Jack Vance , American author
1916 - Hélène Baillargeon , Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997 )
1917 - Jack Kirby , American comic book artist (d. 1994 )
1919 - Godfrey Hounsfield , English electrical engineer Nobel Laureate (d. 2004 )
1920 - Frits Bernard , pedophile activist (d. 2006 )
1921 - Fernando Fernán Gómez , Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007 )
1921 - Nancy Kulp , American actress (d. 1991 )
1924 - Janet Frame , New Zealand author (d. 2004 )
1924 - Peggy Ryan , American actress (d. 2004 )
1924 - Tony MacGibbon , New Zealand cricketer
1925 - Donald O'Connor , American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003 )
1925 - Billy Grammer , American country music singer and guitarist
1928 - F. William Free , American advertising executive (d. 2003 )
1929 - Istvan Kertesz , Hungarian conductor (d. 1973 )
1929 - Ken Gampu , South African actor (d. 2003 )
1930 - Windsor Davies , British actor
1930 - Ben Gazzara , American actor
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk , English bass-baritone
1931 - Tito Capobianco , Argentinian stage impresario
1932 - Andy Bathgate , Canadian ice hockey player
1935 - Gilles Rocheleau , French Canadian politician (d. 1998 )
1936 - Don Denkinger , American baseball umpire
1938 - Paul Martin , Canadian politician
1938 - Maurizio Costanzo , Italian television journalist
1940 - Ken Jenkins , American actor
1940 - Roger Pingeon , French cylist
1940 - Nik Turner , English musician (Hawkwind )
1941 - Sybille de Selys Longchamps , Belgian aristocrat
1941 - Paul Plishka , American bass
1942 - Sterling Morrison , American guitarist (The Velvet Underground ) (d. 1995 )
1943 - David Soul , American actor
1943 - Lou Piniella , American baseball manager
1944 - Marianne Heemskerk , Dutch swimmer
1945 - Robert Greenwald , American film director/producer
1945 - Bob Segarini , Musician and radio personality
1944 - Melvin Dummar , American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate
1947 - Liza Wang , Hong Kong actress
1947 - Shoto Tanemura , Japanese martial artist
1948 - Danny Seraphine , American musician (Chicago )
1948 - Murray Parker , New Zealand cricketer
1949 - Hugh Cornwell , British musician (The Stranglers )
1949 - Svetislav Pe?i? , Serbian basketball player and coach
1951 - Keiichi Suzuki , Japanese composer
1951 - Wayne Osmond , American singer (The Osmonds )
1952 - Rita Dove , American poet
1952 - Wendelin Wiedeking , German businessman
1952 - Guy Nadon , Canadian actor
1952 - Jacques Chagnon , Canadian politician
1954 - George Church , American geneticist
1957 - Daniel Stern , American actor
1957 - Rick Rossovich , American actor
1958 - Scott Hamilton , American figure skater
1960 - Emma Samms , English actress
1961 - Kim Appleby , English singer
1961 - Cliff Benson , American football player
1962 - Paul Allen , English footballer
1962 - David Fincher , American music video and film director
1963 - Jennifer Coolidge , American actress
1965 - Amanda Tapping , Canadian actress
1965 - Shania Twain , Canadian singer
1966 - Priya Dutt , Indian social worker and politician
1967 - Frederick Kesner , Philippine-born Australian poet
1968 - Billy Boyd , Scottish actor
1969 - Jason Priestley , Canadian-born actor
1969 - Jack Black , American actor
1969 - Mary McCartney , English photographer
1969 - Pierre Turgeon , French Canadian ice hockey player
1970 - Sherrié Austin , Australian actress/singer
1970 - Rick Recht , Jewish singer
1971 - Todd Eldredge , American figure skater
1971 - Janet Evans , American swimmer
1971 - Raul Marquez , Mexican-born American boxer
1971 - Shane Andrews , American baseball player
1972 - Jay Witasick , American baseball player
1972 - Ravindu Shah , Kenyan cricketer
1973 - Matthew John Armstrong , American actor
1973 - DJ Assault , American musician
1974 - Johan Andersson , Swedish game programmer
1974 - Carsten Jancker , German footballer
1974 - Takahito Eguchi , Japanese composer
1975 - Jamie Cureton , English footballer
1975 - Gareth Farrelly , Irish footballer
1978 - Jess Margera , American drummer (CKY )
1978 - Shaniqua , American wrestling valet
1979 - Robert Hoyzer , German football referee
1979 - Shaila Durcal , Spanish singer
1979 - Kristen Hughes , Australian netballer
1979 - Markus Pröll , German footballer
1979 - Ruth Riley , American basketball player
1980 - T.J. Beam , American baseball player
1981 - Martin Erat , Czech hockey player
1981 - Vaggelis Moras , Greek footballer
1981 - Agata Wróbel , Polish weightlifter,
1981 - Raphael Matos , Brazilian racing driver
1982 - Anderson Silva de França , Brazilian footballer
1982 - LeAnn Rimes , American singer
1982 - Kevin McNaughton , Scottish footballer
1982 - Thiago Motta , Brazilian footballer
1983 - Lasith Malinga , Sri Lankan cricketer
1983 - Alfonso Herrera , Actor, and singer in the Latin pop group RBD
1985 - Ralph Woolfolk IV , American actor
1986 - Gilad Shalit , Israeli corporal
1988 - Ray Jones , English footballer (d. 2007 )
1990 - Bojan Krki? , Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 - Kyle Massey , American actor
1991 - Sarah Jane Santos , Filipino singer
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
Deaths
388 - Magnus Maximus , Roman usurper
430 - Augustine of Hippo , North African saint and theologian (b. 354 )
1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309 )
1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432 )
1645 - Hugo Grotius , Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583 )
1654 - Axel Oxenstierna , Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583 )
1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton , English soldier (b. 1602 )
1757 - David Hartley , English philosopher (b. 1705 )
1784 - Junípero Serra , Spanish missionary (b. 1713 )
1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle , French sculptor (b. 1714 )
1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine , French general (executed) (b. 1740 )
1805 - Alexander Carlyle , Scottish church leader (b. 1722 )
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable , founder of Chicago
1820 - Andrew Ellicott , American surveyor (b. 1754 )
1839 - William Smith , English geologist (b. 1769 )
1900 - Henry Sidgwick , English philosopher (b. 1838 )
1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted , American landscape architect (b. 1822 )
1933 - Helen Dunbar , American actress (b. 1863 )
1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894 )
1947 - Manolete , Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917 )
1955 - Emmett Till , American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941 )
1959 - Bohuslav Martin? , Czech composer (b. 1890 )
1965 - Giulio Racah , Israeli physicist (b. 1909 )
1975 - Fritz Wotruba , Austrian sculptor (b. 1907 )
1976 - Anissa Jones , American actress (b. 1958 )
1978 - Robert Shaw , English actor and writer (b. 1927 )
1981 - Béla Guttman , Hungarian footballer (b. 1900 )
1982 - Geoff Chubb , South African cricketer (b. 1911 )
1985 - Ruth Gordon , American actress (b. 1896 )
1987 - John Huston , American movie director (b. 1906 )
1988 - Jean Marchand , French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918 )
1990 - Willy Vandersteen , Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913 )
1993 - William Stafford , American poet (b. 1914 )
1995 - Earl Bascom , American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906 )
2003 - Brian Douglas Wells , American criminal (failed) (b. 1956 )
2005 - Jacques Dufilho , French actor (b. 1914 )
2005 - Esther Szekeres , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910 )
2005 - George Szekeres , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911 )
2006 - Benoît Sauvageau , French Canadian politician (b. 1963 )
2006 - Melvin Schwartz , American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932 )
2007 - Arthur Jones , American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926 )
2007 - Hilly Kristal , American Founder of CBGB /Punk rock legend (b. 1932 )
2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr. , American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925 )
2007 - Antonio Puerta , Spanish footballer (b. 1984 )
2007 - Francisco Umbral , Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935 )
2007 - Miyoshi Umeki , Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929 )
2007 - Nikola Nobilo , New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913 )
2008 - Phil Hill , American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927 )
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