28 August

The **28t o August** is the 240t day o the year (241st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 125 days bidin.

## Events

* 1521 - Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
* 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida is foondit.
* 1789 - William Herschel discovers Saturn's muin Enceladus.
* 1845 - Scientific American magazine is first published.
* 1867 - The Unitit States takes ower Midway Atoll in the Paceefic Ocean.
* 1879 - Zulu King Cetshwayo is arrestit bi the Breetish.
* 1913 - The Peace Palace in The Hague opens.
* 1916 - Warld War I: Germany declares war on Romanie; Italy declares war on Germany.
* 1931 - Fraunce an the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty.
* 1937 - The car company Toyota is foondit.
* 1963 - The Mairch on Washington, D.C. for Jobs an Freedom taks place. Martin Luther King Jr. maks his "I Have a Dream" speech.
* 1972 - The soummer Mark Spitz wins the first two o his seven gold medals at the 1972 Simmer Olympics in Munich.
* 1988 - Rammstein airshow mishanter: Three Italian Frecce Tricolori demonstration aircraft collide ower Rammstein airbase in then-Wast Germany, wi wreckage fawin intae the crowd killin 75 fowk.
* 1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait as its 19t province.
* 1990 - A tornado in Plainfield an Joliet, Illinois kills 29 fowk.
* 1996 - Charles, Prince o Wales an Diana, Princess o Wales divorce.
* 2005 - Hurricane Katrina maks landfaw in Louisiana an Mississippi.
* 2008 - Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Pairty nomination for Preses o the Unitit States.
* 2019 - Brexit: Boris Johnson propales the intendit Prorogation o the Breetish pairlament.
* 2020 - Shinzo Abe propales his demission as Prime meenister o Japan acause o a chronic heal condition.

## Births

* 1582 - Taichang Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1620)
* 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author (d. 1832)
* 1802 - Thomas Aird, Scots poet (d. 1876)
* 1860 - George McCrae, Scots politeecian (d. 1928)
* 1884 - Peter Fraser, Scots-born 24t Prime meenister o New Zealand (d. 1950)
* 1891 - Benno Schotz, Estonie-Scots sculptor (d. 1984)
* 1899 - Chang Myon, Korean statesman, eddicator, diplomat, jurnalist an social activist (d. 1966)
* 1906 - John Betjeman, Inglis poet (d. 1984)
* 1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
* 1937 - Ian Campbell, 12t Duke o Argyll, Scots peer (d. 2001)
* 1938 - Paul Martin, umwhile Prime meenister o Canadae
* 1942 - José Eduardo dos Santos, umwhile Preses o Angolae
* 1951 - Colin McAdam, Scots fitbawer (d. 2013)
* 1957 - Ivo Josipovic, umwhile Preses o Croatie
* 1962 - Duncan Shearer, Scots fitbawer
* 1964 - Kaj Leo Johannesen, umwhile Prime meenister o the Faroe Islands
* 1965 - Shania Twain, Canadian sangster an sangwriter
* 1967 - Greg Clark, Inglis politeecian
* 1968 - Billy Boyd, Scots actor an sangster
* 1969 - Jack Black, American actor an muisicker
* 1981 - Kezia Dugdale, Scots politeecian
* 1982 - Kevin McNaughton, Scots fitbawer
* 1982 - Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian fitbawer
* 1982 - LeAnn Rimes, American sangster
* 1984 - Paula Fernandes, Brazilian sangster
* 1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli sodger
* 1986 - Florence Welch, Inglis sangster (Florence and the Machine)
* 1987 - Bob Harris, Scots fitbawer
* 1989 - Jamie Murphy, Scots fitbawer
* 1989 - César Azpilicueta, Spaingie fitbawer
* 1989 - Valtteri Bottas, Finnish racin driver
* 1990 - Bojan Krkic, Spaingie fitbawer

## Daiths
* 388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor (b. 335)
* 430 - Augustine o Hippo, Christian saunt
* 876 - Louis the German, Frankish king (b. 804)
* 1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch polymath (b. 1583)
* 1913 - Alexander Macfarlane, Scots logician, pheesicist an mathemateecian (b. 1851)
* 1930 - Bobby Walker, Scots fitbawer (b. 1879)
* 1941 - William Hay Caldwell, Scots zoologist (b. 1859)
* 1943 - Tsar Boris III o Bulgarie (b. 1894)
* 1987 - John Huston, American film director (b. 1906)
* 1994 - Neil Mochan, Scots fitbawer (b. 1927)
* 1995 - Michael Ende, German screiver (b. 1929)
* 2003 - William Cochran, Scots pheesicist (b. 1922)
* 2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spainyie fitbawer (b. 1984)
* 2013 - John Bellany, Scots penter (b. 1942)
* 2020 - Chadwick Boseman, American actor (b. 1976)

## Halidays
* Christian Feast Day o Assumption in the Orthodox Kirks