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2005-08-28

On this day in History - Aug 28

0430 - Augustine of Hippo dies (b. 0354), North African saint and theologian / Morte de Santo Agostinho.
0475 - The Pannonian general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints Romulus Augustus in his place.
0489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan was born (d. 1068)
1481 - King Afonso V of Portugal dies in Sintra (b. 1432)
1484 - Portugal: O duque de Bragança é degolado na praça de Évora.
1498 - Portugal: Morte de D. Beatriz. Esposa de D. Manuel I
1521 - The Turks occupy Belgrade
1551 - Um violento tremor de terra atinge Lisboa.
1565 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1578 - Portugal: Sobe ao trono o Cardeal D. Henrique . Rei de Portugal (28 de Agosto de 1578 até à data da sua morte, em 31 de Janeiro de 1580).
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1612 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn was born (d. 1653). Dutch scholar
1619 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1645 - Grotius, dies (b. 1583). Dutch jurist.
1676 - Morte do compositor espanhol Juan Cererols
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born (d. 1832). German writer and scientist (“Fausto")
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton was born (d. 1821). First American-born Catholic saint.
1784 - Junípero Serra dies (b. 1713). Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary.
1810 - Portugal: Devido à explosão do paiol, a fortaleza de Almeida rende-se ao exército comandado pelo marechal Massena, no começo do que será a Terceira Invasão Francesa.
1814 - Sheridan le Fanu was born (d. 1873). Irish writer.
1818 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable dies. Founder of Chicago.
1821- O general José de San Martín funda a Biblioteca Nacional del Perú doando para a mesma a sua biblioteca particular.
1821 - Argentina : O Governador de Buenos Aires, general Martín Rodríguez (1771-1845) cria o Archivo General de la Nación.
1828 - Leo Tolstoy was born (d. 1910). Russian writer.
1828 - Uruguay es declarado estado independiente mediante la Convención Preliminar de Paz.
1830 - The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1837 - Morte de João Nepomuceno de Macedo (n. 15 Mai 1793). Barão de São Cosme - Portugal.
1839 - William Smith dies (b. 1769). English geologist.
1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes first issue
1849 - After a siege of over one month, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1849 - Benjamin Godard was born (d. 1895). French composer.
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.
1867 - Umberto Giordano was born (d. 1948). Italian compose.
1878 - George Hoyt Whipple was born (d. 1 Feb 1976). American physician. 1934 Nobel Prize in Medicine
laureate
1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made.
1888 - Nascimento de Eduardo Santos Montejo. Presidente da Colômbia (1938-1942)
1894 - Karl Böhm was born (d. 1981). Austrian conductor.
1896 - Morte de Antonio Rafael Pinto Bandeira . Pintor brasileiro
1897 - Charles Boyer was born (d. 26 Aug 1978). French actor (d. 1978)
1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1900 - Henry Sidgwick dies (b. 1838). English philosopher.
1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted dies (b. 1822). American landscape architect
1903 - Harley-Davidson Motor Company is founded
1903 - Bruno Bettelheim was born (d. 1990). American psychologist
1904 - Secondo Campini was born (d. 1980). Italian jet engine pioneer.
1905 - Nasce o actor cómico argentino Fidel Pintos.
1906 - John Betjeman was born (d. 1984). English poet
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson was born (d. 1996). American ornithologist and illustrator
1910 - Tjalling Koopmans was born (d. 1985). Dutch economist
1911 - Joseph Luns was born (d. 2002). Dutch politician.
1913 - Robertson Davies was born (d. 1995). Canadian writer.
1913 - Richard Tucker was born (d. 1975). American tenor
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 - The British fleet beats the German fleet in the so-called Battle of Heligoland Bight (actually a comparatively minor engagement).
1916 - Germany declares war on Romania.
1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
1917 - Jack Kirby was born (d. 1994). American comic book artist
1919 - Godfrey Hounsfield was born (d. 2004). English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1921 - Fernando Fernán Gómez was born. Spanish plawright, actor and director
1924 - Janet Frame was born. New Zealand author
1924 - Peggy Ryan was born (d. 2004). American actress
1925 - Donald O'Connor was born (d. 2003). American singer, dancer, and actor
1929 - Istvan Kertesz was born (d. 1973). Hungarian conductor
1930 - Ben Gazzara was born. American actor
1931- John Shirley-Quirk was born. English bass-baritone
1931 - Walmor Chagas was born. Brazilian actor.
1932 - Raul Cortez was born. Brazilian actor
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
1938 - Maurizio Costanzo was born. Italian television journalist.
1940 - Roger Pingeon was born in Hauteville. French cyclist
1941 - Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, was born. Belgian aristocrat
1943 - David Soul was born. American actor
1943 - Lou Piniella was born. Baseball manager
1943 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1943 - King Boris III of Bulgaria dies (b. 1894)
1944 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1945 - Roberto J. Noble (1902-1969) funda em Buenos Aires o diário "Clarín".
1947 - Liza Wang was born. Hong Kong actress.
1950 - Nídia de Paula was born. Brazilian actress.
1950 - Nicolas de Tavernost was born. Television and comunication personality (M6)
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 alling her baby.
1957 - Daniel Stern was born. American actor
1957 - Rick Rossovich was born. American actor
1958 - Scott Hamilton was born. American figure skater.
1959 - Bohuslav Martinů dies (b. 1890). Romanian composer.
1960 - Emma Samms was born. English actress
1961- Kim Appleby was born. British singer
1963 - During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Matin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
1964 - The Philadelphia race riot began.
1965 - Shania Twain was born. Canadian singer.
1965 - Satoshi Tajiri was born. Pokémon creator.
1965 - Giulio Racah dies (b. 1909). Israeli physicist
1968 - Billy Boyd was born. Scottish actor
1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic National Convention
1969 - Jason Priestley was born. Canadian actor
1971 - Janet Evans was born. American swimmer
1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1972 - During the Olympic Games of 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.
1979 - Robert Hoyzer was born. German football referee
1980 - Eric Schomburg was born. American author
1981 - Martin Erat was born. Czech hockey player
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 - LeAnn Rimes was born. American singer.
1985 - Ruth Gordon dies (b. 1896). American actress
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.
1987 - John Huston dies (b. 1906)., American movie director
1988 - At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait it's 19th province of Iraq.
1990 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hit in Plainfield, Illinois and Joliet, Illinois killing 28 people.
1990 - Willy Vandersteen dies (b. 1913). Belgian cartoonist.
1990 - Morre Victorio Spinetto. Seleccionador nacional de futebol da Argentina.
1993 - William Stafford dies (b. 1914). American writer
1993 - Edward Palmer Thompson dies (b. 1924). British historian
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.
1994 - Morre Rui Filipe, futebolista português que representava o FC Porto.
1994 - Em San Sebastian de los Reyes, o toureiro Pedrito de Portugal é colhido gravemente por um touro.
1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The NATO action against Bosnian Serbs was a reaction to this incident.
1995 - Michael Ende dies (b. 1929). German writer.
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 was defeated in the Senate.
1998 - George Hermann Büchi dies (b. 1 Aug 1921). Swiss chemist
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.
2001 - Juan Muñoz dies. Spanish sculptor.
2002 - Morre o pintor Fernando Azevedo, presidente da Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes. Na toponímica de Almada tem uma rua com o seu nome
Hong Kong: Liberation Day (1945)
Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo


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