On this day in History - Aug. 28

• 0388 - Magnus Maximus dies. Roman usurper.
• 0430 - Augustine of Hippo dies (b. 0354). North African saint and theologian / Morte de Santo Agostinho.
• 0475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place.
• 0489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
• 0888 - Today is the last day until February 2, 2000 that all of the digits in the date are even.
• 1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan was born (d. 1068).
• 1189 - Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
• 1341 - King Leo V of Armenia dies (b. 1309).
• 1481 - Sá de Miranda was born in Coimbra (d. 15 Mar. 1558). Portuguese poet.
  
• 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.
• 1511 – The Portuguese conquer Malacca.
• 1521 - The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
• 1542 - Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
• 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).
• 1582 (O.S.) - Taichang Emperor of the Ming dynasty of China was born (d. 1620).
• 1592 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham was born (d. 1628). English statesman.
• 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.
• 1640 - Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
• 1645 - Grotius dies (b. 1583). Dutch philosopher and writer.
• 1654 - Axel Oxenstierna dies (b. 1583). Lord High Chancellor of Sweden.
• 1676 - Juan Cererols dies. Spanish composer.
• 1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton dies (b. 1602). English soldier.
• 1714 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg was born (d. 1774).
• 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Frankfurt (d. 1832). German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, author of Fausto.
• 1757 - David Hartley dies (b. 1705). English philosopher.
• 1774 - Elizabeth Ann Seton was born (d. 1821). American-born Catholic saint.
• 1784 - Junípero Serra dies (b. 1713). Spanish Franciscan friar and missionary.
• 1785 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle dies (b. 1714). French sculptor.
• 1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
• 1793 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine dies executed (b. 1740). French general.
• 1801 - Antoine Augustin Cournot was born (d. 1877). French mathematician.
• 1805 - Alexander Carlyle dies (b. 1722). Scottish church leader.
• 1807 - Manuel José Ribeiro was born in Quinta de Poldrães, em S. Miguel das Aves (d. 26 Mar 1893). Portuguese noble: Conde de S. Bento, and benemerit.
• 1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
• 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.
• 1820 - Andrew Ellicott dies (b. 1754). American surveyor.
• 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 (O. S.) - 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.
• 1833 - Teixeira de Melo was born (d. 1907). Brazilian writer.
• 1837 - João Nepomuceno de Macedo dies (b. 15 Mai 1793). Portuguese noble: Barão de São Cosme.
• 1839 - William Smith dies (b. 1769). English geologist.
• 1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim was born (d. 1900). Scottish merchant.
• 1845 - The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
• 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.
• 1853 - Vladimir Shukhov was born (d. 1939). Russian engineer and inventor.
• 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 further afield as Japan.
• 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.
• 1869 - Augusto Fragoso was born (d. 1945). 16th President of Brazil.
• 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 - Eduardo Santos Montejo was born. President of Colombia (1938-1942).
• 1888 - Hermes Fontes [Hermes Floro Bartolomeu Martins de Araújo Fontes] was born in Boquim, Sergipe (d. 25 Dez 1930). Brazilian poet and composer.
• 1891 - Robert Caldwell dies (b. 1814). British Orientalist.
• 1894 - Karl Böhm was born (d. 1981). Austrian conductor.
• 1894 - Elisha Scott was born (d. 1959). Footballer.
• 1896 - Antonio Rafael Pinto Bandeira dies. Brazilian painter.
• 1897 - Charles Boyer was born (d. 26 Aug 1978). French actor.
• 1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
• 1898 - Charlie Grimm was born (d. 1983). Baseball player.
• 1900 - Henry Sidgwick dies (b. 1838). English philosopher.
• 1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted dies (b. 1822). American landscape architect.
• 1903 - Harley-Davidson Motor Company was officially founded.
• 1903 - Bruno Bettelheim was born (d. 1990). American psychologist.
• 1904 - Secondo Campini was born (d. 1980). Italian jet engine pioneer.
• 1905 - Fidel Pintos was born. Argentinian comedian and actor.
• 1906 - John Betjeman was born (d. 1984). English poet.
• 1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
• 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 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
• 1913 - Robertson Davies was born (d. 1995). Canadian writer.
• 1913 - Richard Tucker was born (d. 1975). American tenor.
• 1913 - Terence Reese was born (d. 1996). British bridge player.
• 1913 - Boris Pahor was born. Slovenian writer.
• 1914 - The British fleet beats the German fleet in the so-called Battle of Heligoland Bight (actually a comparatively minor engagement).
• 1915 - Max Robertson was born. British sports commentator.
• 1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.
• 1916 - Jack Vance was born. American author.
• 1916 - Hélène Baillargeon was born (d. 1997). Quebec singer, actor and folklorist.
• 1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
• 1917 - Jack Kirby was born (d. 1994). American comic book artist.
• 1918 - PFC Spartak Varna founded.
• 1919 - Godfrey Hounsfield was born (d. 2004). English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1919 - Louis Botha dies (b. 1862). Boer leader.
• 1920 - Frits Bernard was born (d. 2006). Pedophile activist.
• 1921 - Nancy Kulp was born (d. 1991). American actress.
• 1921 - Fernando Fernán Gómez was born. Spanish plawright, actor and director.
• 1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
• 1924 - Janet Frame was born (d. 2004). 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.
• 1925 - Billy Grammer was born. American country music singer and guitarist.
• 1928 - F. William Free was born (d. 2003). American advertising executive.
• 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 (d. 2006). Brazilian actor.
• 1932 - Andy Bathgate was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1933 - Helen Dunbar dies (b. 1863). American actress.
• 1935 - Gilles Rocheleau was born (d. 1998). French Canadian politician.
• 1936 - Don Denkinger was born. American baseball umpire.
• 1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
• 1938 - Maurizio Costanzo was born. Italian television journalist.
• 1938 - Paul Martin was born. Former Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1940 - Roger Pingeon was born in Hauteville. French cyclist.
• 1940 - Ken Jenkins was born. American actor.
• 1941 - Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps was born. Belgian aristocrat.
• 1942 - José Eduardo dos Santos was born. Angolan politician, President of Angola.
• 1942 - Sterling Morrison was born (d. 1995). American guitarist (The Velvet Underground).
• 1943 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
• 1943 - David Soul was born. American actor.
• 1943 - Lou Piniella was born. American 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.
• 1944 - Marianne Heemskerk was born. Dutch swimmer.
• 1944 - Melvin Dummar was born. American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate.
• 1945 - Roberto J. Noble (1902-1969) funda em Buenos Aires o diário "Clarín".
• 1947 - Liza Wang was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1947 - Shoto Tanemura was born. Japanese martial artist.
• 1947 - Manolete dies (b. 1917). Spanish bullfighter.
• 1948 - Danny Seraphine was born. American musician (Chicago).
• 1949 - Hugh Cornwell was born. British musician (The Stranglers).
• 1950 - Nídia de Paula was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1950 - Nicolas de Tavernost was born. Television and comunication personality (M6).
• 1951 - Keiichi Suzuki was born. Japanese composer.
• 1951 - Wayne Osmond was born. American singer (The Osmonds).
• 1952 - Rita Dove was born. American poet.
• 1952 - Wendelin Wiedeking was born. German businessman.
• 1952 - Guy Nadon was born. Quebec actor.
• 1952 - Jacques Chagnon was born. Quebec politician.
• 1953 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
• 1955 - Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
• 1955 - Emmett Till dies (b. 1941). American civil rights movement icon.
• 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 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
• 1961 - Kim Appleby was born. British singer.
• 1962 - Eugene Robinson was born. American musician (Oxbow).
• 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.
• 1963 - Jennifer Coolidge was born. American actress.
• 1964 - The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time.
• 1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
• 1965 - Bob Dylan is booed off the stage at Forest Hills Stadium in New York for playing an electric guitar.
• 1965 - Amanda Tapping was born. Canadian actress
• 1965 - Shania Twain was born. Canadian singer.
• 1965 - Satoshi Tajiri was born. Pokémon creator.
• 1965 - Giulio Racah dies (b. 1909). Israeli physicist.
• 1966 - René Higuita was born. Colombian footballer.
• 1966 - Priya Dutt was born. Indian social worker and politician.
• 1967 - Frederick Kesner was born. Philippine-born Australian poet.
• 1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic National Convention.
• 1968 - Billy Boyd was born. Scottish actor.
• 1969 - Jason Priestley was born. Canadian actor.
• 1969 - Jack Black was born. American actor.
• 1969 - Mary McCartney was born. English photographer.
• 1969 - Pierre Turgeon was born. French Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1970 - Sherrié Austin was born. Australian actress/singer.
• 1970 - Rick Recht was born. Jewish singer.
• 1971 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
• 1971 - Todd Eldredge was born. American figure skater.
• 1971 - Janet Evans was born. American swimmer.
• 1971 - Raul Marquez was born. Mexican-born American boxer.
• 1971 - Shane Andrews was born. American baseball player.
• 1972 - During the Olympic Games of Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
• 1972 - Jay Witasick was born. American baseball player.
• 1973 - Matthew John Armstrong was born. American actor.
• 1974 - Johan Andersson was born. Swedish game programmer.
• 1974 - Carsten Jancker was born. German footballer.
• 1974 - Takahito Eguchi was born. Japanese composer.
• 1974 - Geir Hallgrímsson became Prime Minister of Iceland.
• 1975 - Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
• 1975 - Gareth Farrelly was born. Irish footballer.
• 1975 - DJ Assault was born. American musician.
• 1975 - Jamie Cureton was born. English footballer.
• 1975 – Vera Jordanova was born. Finnish actress and model.
• 1975 - Fritz Wotruba dies (b. 1907). Austrian sculptor.
• 1976 - Anissa Jones dies (b. 1958). American actress.
• 1978 - Jess Margera was born. American drummer.
• 1978 - Shaniqua was born. American wrestling valet.
• 1978 - Robert Shaw dies (b. 1927). English actor and writer.
• 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
• 1979 - Robert Hoyzer was born. German football referee.
• 1979 - Shaila Durcal was born. Spanish singer.
• 1979 - David Graham was born. Australian reality show personality.
• 1979 - Kristen Hughes was born. Australian netballer.
• 1979 - Markus Pröll was born. German footballer.
• 1979 - Ruth Riley was born. American basketball player.
• 1980 – Carly Pope was born. Canadian actress.
• 1980 - Eric Schomburg was born. American author.
• 1980 - T.J. Beam 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.
• 1981 - Martin Erat was born. Czech hockey player.
• 1981 - Vaggelis Moras was born. Greek footballer.
• 1981 - Raphael Matos was born. Brazilian racing driver.
• 1981 - Béla Guttman dies (b. 1900). Hungarian footballer.
• 1982 - Anderson Silva de França was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1982 - Carlos Eduardo de Souza Floresta (Kahê) was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1982 - LeAnn Rimes was born. American singer.
• 1982 - Thiago Motta was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1983 - Alfonso Herrera was born. Mexican actor and singer in the Latin Pop Group RBD.
• 1983 - Lasith Malinga was born. Sri Lankan cricketer.
• 1984 - Sarah Roemer was born. American actress and model.
• 1985 - Cove Reber was born. American Lead singer for Saosin.
• 1985 - Ralph Woolfolk IV was born. American actor.
• 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.
• 1986 - Gilad Shalit was born. Israeli military officer.
• 1987 - John Huston dies (b. 1906). American film director.
• 1988 - At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
• 1988 - Ray Jones was born (d. 2007). English footballer.
• 1988 - Jean Marchand dies (b. 1918). French Canadian union leader and politician.
• 1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait it's 19th province of Iraq.
• 1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
• 1990 - Bojan Krkić was born. Serbian-Spanish footballer.
• 1990 - Victorio Spinetto dies. Argentinian football coach and national team manager.
• 1990 - Willy Vandersteen dies (b. 1913). Belgian cartoonist.
• 1991 - A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City. The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.
• 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.
• 1991 - Kyle Massey was born. American actor.
• 1991 – Sarah Jane Santos was born. Filipina singer.
• 1992 - Isabelle Abiera weas born. Filipina actress.
• 1993 - A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
• 1993 - 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
• 1993 - Edward Palmer Thompson dies (b. 1924). British historian.
• 1993 - Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore.
• 1993 - William Stafford dies (b. 1914). American writer.
• 1994 - First Japanese gay pride march.
• 1994 - Rui Filipe dies. Portuguese football player (FC do 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.
• 1995 - Earl W. Bascom dies (b. 19 Jun 1906). American cowboy.
• 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 is defeated in the Senate.
• 1998 - George Hermann Büchi dies (b. 1 Aug 1921). Swiss chemist.
• 1999 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark was born.
• 2001 - Dutch prime minister Wim Kok announces that he will not be available for another term as Party leader or prime minister after the 2002 elections.
• 2001 - Juan Muñoz dies (b. 1953). Spanish sculptor.
• 2002 - Fernando Azevedo dies. Portuguese artist who was President of Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.
• 2003 - An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.
• 2003 - Brian Douglas Wells dies (b. 1956). American criminal (failed).
• 2005 - Esther Szekeres dies (b. 1910). Hungarian mathematician.
• 2005 - George Szekeres dies (b. 1911). Hungarian mathematician.
• 2005 - Jacques Dufilho dies (b. 1914). French actor.
• 2006 - Benoît Sauvageau dies (b. 1963). French Canadian politician.
• 2006 - Jesse Pintado dies (b. 1969). Mexican-born American musician (Terrorizer, Napalm Death).
• 2006 - Melvin Schwartz dies (b. 1932). American physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 2007 - Antonio Puerta dies (b. 1984). Spanish footballer.
• 2007 - Arthur Jones dies (b. 1926). American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines.
• 2007 - Hilly Kristal dies (b. 1932). American musician.
• 2007 - Francisco Umbral dies (b. 1935). Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.
  
• 2007 - Miyoshi Umeki dies (b. 1929).Japanese-born American actress.
  
• 2007 - Nikola Nobilo dies (b. 1913). New Zealand winemaker.
• 2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr. dies (b. 1925). American aeronautical engineer.
• 2008 - Phil Hill dies (b. 1927). American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion.
• 2009 – Adam Goldstein dies (b. 1973). American DJ also known as DJ AM.
  
• Hong Kong: Liberation Day (1945).
• Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
• Assumption of Mary (Eastern Orthodox Church, a public holiday in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Georgia).