August 28



Events

Up to 1900 
 489 - Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into present-day Italy.
 663 - Silla-Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
 1189 - Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre, present-day Lebanon, under Guy of Lusignan.
 1521 – Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
 1524 - The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
 1565 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles sights land near St. Augustine, Florida, which becomes the oldest-continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
 1609 - Henry Hudson reaches Delaware Bay.
 1619 – Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
 1640 - Second Bishop's War: Charles I of England's army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
 1709 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
 1789 – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
 1845 – The first edition of the Scientific American magazine is published.
 1850 - Richard Wagner's Lohengrin Romantic opera is first performed in Weimar, under direction of Franz Liszt.
 1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extends its blockage strategy by capturing the Confederate forts on North Carolina's Center Banks.
 1862 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run.
 1867 – The United States annexes the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
 1879 – Cetshwayo, the last king of the Zulus is captured by the British.
 1898 - Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will become known as Pepsi Cola.

1901  2000 
 1909 - A military coup d'état against the government of Dimitrios Rallis in Greece begins.
 1913 – The Peace Palace in The Hague is inaugurated.
 1914 - World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet at the First Battle of Heligoland Bight.
 1916 - World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. On the same day, Italy declares war on Germany.
 1917 - Ten suffragettes (campaigners for women's right to vote) are arrested after a protest outside the White House in Washington, DC.
 1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
 1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
 1943 - World War II: A general strike in Denmark against the occupiers begins.
 1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
 1953 – Nippon TV broadcasts Japan's first television programme.
 1955 – African American teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi.
 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream speech, calling for Civil Rights and equal opportunities.
 1963 - The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina in Washington state, United States.
 1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
 1968 - Riots occur in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic Party's National Convention.
 1971 - A fire on the Greek ferry Heleanna kills 26 people.
 1972 - Mark Spitz wins the first two of his total of seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
 1973 - Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca in Mexico are struck by an earthquake, killing 1,200 people.
 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium.
 1984 - In Amstetten, Austria, Josef Fritzl locks up his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar behind his house. She would remain imprisoned there for over 23 years until April 26, 2008.
 1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolore demonstration team collide, with the wreckage falling into the crowd, killing 75 people and injuring 346.
 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait its newest province.
 1990 - A Force 5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
 1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
 1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales officially divorce.

From 2001 
 2003 – A power blackout in southeastern England affects 500,000 people.
 2005 – Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi.
 2007 - Abdullah Gül becomes President of Turkey.
 2008 - Barack Obama accepts the Democrats' nomination for President of the United States, becoming the first African American to do so. 
 2014 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan becomes President of Turkey.

Births

Up to 1900 
933 - Richard I of Normandy (d. 996)
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 diplomat (d. 1627)
1676 - Louise of Mecklenburg, Queen Consort of Denmark (d. 1721)
1714 - Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (d. 1774)
1728 - John Stark, American general (d. 1822)
1739 - Agostino Accorintoni, Italian composer (d. 1818)
1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, first American-born saint (d. 1821)
1801 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1877)
1814 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1827 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1874)
1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (d. 1910) (September 9 in Gregorian calendar)
1831 – Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1833 - Edward Burne-Jones, English painter (d. 1898)
1837 - Francis, Duke of Teck, German-British nobleman (d. 1900)
1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman (d. 1900)
1853 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer (d. 1939)
1853 – Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1938)
1859 - Matilda Howell, American archer (d. 1938)
1859 - Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (d. 1943)
1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1878 – George Whipple, American doctor (d. 1976)
1884 – Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
1885 - Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright and critic (d. 1959)
1887 - August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler (d. 1973)
1888 - Edward H. Griffith, American director (d. 1975)
1896 - Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet and critic (d. 1982)
1898 - Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager and sportscaster (d. 1983)
1899 – Chang Myon, 4th Vice President of South Korea, 2nd, 7th Prime Minister (d. 1966)
1899 – Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1899 - Andrei Platonov, Russian author (d. 1951)
1899 - James Wong Howe, Chinese-American cinematographer (d. 1976)

1901  1950 
1903 – Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1904 - Anton Yugov, 35th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1991)
1906 – John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist (d. 1985)
1911 – Joseph Luns, Dutch Secretary-General of NATO (d. 2002)
1913 – Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1916 – Jack Vance, American writer (d. 2013)
1917 - Jack Kirby, American comic artist (d. 1994)
1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer (d. 2004)
1921 – Lidia Gueiler Tejada, President of Bolivia (d. 2011)
1921 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991)
1921 - Mariano Rajoy Sobredo, Spanish judge (d. 2018)
1921 - Fernando Fernan Gomez, Peruvian-Spanish writer, actor and director (d. 2007)
1923 – Guenter Wendt, German-born NASA engineer (d. 2010)
1924 – Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (d. 2004)
1924 - Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (d. 2004)
1924 - Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Polish-American rabbi (d. 2014)
1928 - Vilayat Khan, Indian sitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1930 - Windsor Davies, English actor
1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor, singer and director (d. 2012)
1931 - Cristina Deutekom, Dutch operatic soprano (d. 2014)
1931 - Ola L. Mize, American general (d. 2014)
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone (d. 2014)
1931 - Shunichiro Okano, Japanese footballer (d. 2017)
1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (d. 2016)
1933 - Philip French, English film critic (d. 2015)
1936 - Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire
1938 – Paul Martin Jr., former Prime Minister of Canada
1939 - John Kingman, English mathematician
1940 - William Cohen, American lawyer and politician
1940 - Ken Jenkins, American actor
1942 - Sterling Morrison, American singer and guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1942 – José Eduardo dos Santos, former President of Angola
1943 – David Soul, American actor
1943 – Surayud Chulanont, former Prime Minister of Thailand
1943 - Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani politician (d. 2015)
1943 – Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
1947 – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (d. 2004)
1949 – Hugh Cornwell, English musician (The Stranglers)

1951  1975 
1951 - Dave Hlubek, American musician and songwriter (d. 2017)
1951 – Wayne Osmond, American singer
1952 – Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1952 – Rita Dove, American poet
1953 – Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
1954 - George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist and engineer
1957 - Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and political activist
1957 – Ivo Josipovic, former President of Croatia
1957 - Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Spanish footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor
1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1959 - Brian Thompson, American actor
1960 – Emma Samms, English actress
1961 - Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1961 - Rona Fairhead, former Chair of the BBC Trust
1961 - Kim Appleby, British singer
1963 - Lucjan Avgustini, Albanian bishop (d. 2016)
1964 - Kaj Leo Johannesen, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1965 – Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese, creator of Pokémon
1965 – Shania Twain, Canadian-American singer
1965 - Amanda Tapping, English-Canadian actress, director and producer
1966 - Julen Lopetegui, Spanish football manager
1967 - Greg Clark, English politician
1968 – Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969 – Jack Black, American actor and musician
1969 – Jason Priestley, Canadian-American actor
1969 - Mary McCartney, English photographer and actress
1971 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
1971 - Alex Polizzi, English hotelier and television presenter
1972 - Omayra Sanchez, Colombian volcanic eruption victim (d. 1985)
1973 - J. August Richards, American actor
1974 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer

From 1976 
1976 – Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1978 - Jess Margera, American drummer
1980 - Carly Pope, Canadian actress
1980 - Rachel Khoo, English chef, writer and broadcaster
1981 - Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1982 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1982 – Thiago Motta, Italian footballer
1983 - Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Christian Pander, German footballer
1983 - Lilli Schwarzkopf, German athlete
1984 - Sarah Roemer, American actress
1984 - Paula Fernandes, Brazilian singer
1985 - Masahiko Inoha, Japanese footballer
1986 – Florence Welch, English singer (Florence and the Machine)
1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier
1986 - Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
1987 - Katie Green, English model
1987 - Daigo Nishi, Japanese footballer
1987 - Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (d. 2013)
1989 - César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
1989 - Valtteri Bottas, Finnish Formula One racing driver
1989 - Jo Kwon, South Korean singer
1989 - Cassadee Pope, American singer and songwriter
1989 - Jamie Murphy, Scottish footballer
1990 – Bojan Krkic, Serbian-Spanish footballer
1991 - Kyle Massey, American actor and rapper
1991 - Andreja Pejic, Bosnian-Australian model
1992 - Sora Amamija, Japanese voice actress and singer
1994 - Felix Jaehn, German DJ and producer
1994 - Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
2003 - Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress

Deaths

Up to 1900 
388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor (b. 335)
430 – Augustine of Hippo, saint and theologian (b. 354)
476 - Orestes, Roman politician
632 - Fatimah, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad (b. 605)
876 - Louis the German, Frankish King (b. 804)
1027 - Richard II, Duke of Normandy (b. 963)
1481 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1432)
1645 – Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher (b. 1583)
1654 – Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1784 - Junipero Serra, Spanish-American missionary (b. 1713)
1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (b. 1722)
1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American founder of Chicago (b. 1750)
1888 - Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)

1901  2000 
1903 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1934 - Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
1942 - Belisario Porras Barahona, President of Panama (b. 1856)
1943 – King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1943 - George Underwood, American runner (b. 1884)
1955 – Emmett Till, American Civil Rights Movement icon (b. 1941) (murdered)
1959 – Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
1965 - Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909)
1972 - Prince William of Gloucester (b. 1941)
1976 - Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
1978 - Robert Shaw, English actor, screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1984 - Muhammad Naguib, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
1985 – Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
1987 – John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1988 - Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian comic writer (b. 1913)
1995 – Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929)

From 2001 
2005 - Hans Clarin, German actor (b. 1929)
2006 – Melvin Schwartz, American physicist (b. 1932)
2006 – William F. Quinn, 1st State Governor of Hawaii (b. 1919)
2006 - Ed Benedict, American animator (b. 1912)
2007 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress and singer (b. 1929)
2008 – Phil Hill, American racing driver (b. 1927)
2009 - Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ and producer (b. 1973)
2010 – Sinan Hasani, President of Yugoslavian (b. 1922)
2012 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, Russian spiritual leader (b. 1937)
2013 - Murray Gershenz, American actor (b. 1922)
2014 - Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor and comedian (b. 1922)
2014 - Glenn Cornick, English guitarist (b. 1947)
2014 - Fernando Zunzunegui, Spanish footballer (b. 1943)
2014 - Jack Kraft, American basketball coach (b. 1921)
2014 - John Anthony Walker, American naval officer (b. 1937)
2014 - Roberto Cairo, Spanish actor (b. 1963)
2015 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
2015 - Teresa Gorman, English politician (b. 1931)
2015 - Nelson Shanks, American painter (b. 1937)
2016 - Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2016 - Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2016 - Mohammad Shafi Qureshi, Indian politician, Governor of West Bengal (b. 1929)
2016 - Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Israeli politician (b. 1936)
2017 - Senarath Attanayake, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1966)
2017 - Mireille Darc, French actress and model (b. 1938)
2017 - Tsutomu Hata, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1935)
2017 - David Torrence, Peruvian-American runner (b. 1985)
2018 - Silvano Campeggi, Italian film poster designer (b. 1923)
2018 - Josep Fontana, Spanish historian and academic (b. 1931)
2018 - Gary Friedrich, American comic book writer (b. 1943)

Observances 
 Christian Feast Day of Assumption (Orthodox Church)

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