Notable Historical Events on August 28th
August 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
475 |
Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna. |
476 |
German ruler Flavius Odoacer captures Pavia |
476 |
Orestes, father of Emperor Romulus Augustulus is captured and executed by Odoacer and his followers |
489 |
Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Flavius 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 |
1521 |
Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops 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 |
Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established |
1609 |
Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay |
1619 |
Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor |
1632 |
Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe |
1637 |
WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa |
1640 |
Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn |
1655 |
New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service |
1777 |
American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware. |
1789 |
Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus |
1830 |
1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb", runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill |
1837 |
Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce |
1840 |
Nine Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails |
1845 |
Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue. |
1849 |
Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, having been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence |
1850 |
Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar, Germany |
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. |
1861 |
Battle of Fort Hatteras,NC |
1862 |
Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, VA |
1862 |
Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000 |
1862 |
Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC |
1864 |
The first Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations. |
1867 |
United States occupy Midway Islands in the Pacific |
1884 |
First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, SD |
1884 |
Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces |
1898 |
Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola". |
1907 |
United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington. |
1908 |
14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass |
1910 |
Nicholas I, who first assumed power in 1860 and had his reign interrupted by Turkish rule, again proclaims himself king |
1911 |
45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record) |
1913 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace in The Hague |
1914 |
Third day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): violent German/Russian battles |
1914 |
Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed |
1914 |
British General John French evacuate Amiens |
1916 |
Germany declares war on Romania |
1916 |
Italy declares war against Germany during WW I |
1917 |
Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House |
1918 |
Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly |
1919 |
General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa |
1921 |
2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris) |
1921 |
Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games |
1922 |
1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4 |
1922 |
Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC |
1922 |
WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins) |
1924 |
Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. |
1925 |
Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island |
1926 |
Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox) |
1929 |
Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred |
1937 |
Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. |
1938 |
Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria |
1938 |
Northwestern University awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy |
1938 |
On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader |
1939 |
Gen Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") becomes commander of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division |
1939 |
Netherland mobilizes |
1939 |
Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres |
1940 |
French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle |
1941 |
8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203) |
1941 |
Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves |
1942 |
9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100) |
1942 |
Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2) |
1942 |
Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1943 |
Denmark declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers |
1943 |
Benito Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso |
1944 |
Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared |
1944 |
US air raid on Ambon |
1949 |
38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1) |
1949 |
Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY |
1950 |
Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr |
1951 |
Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000 |
1951 |
Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak |
1952 |
German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments |
1952 |
Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister |
1953 |
"Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances |
1955 |
1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17 |
1955 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament |
1956 |
England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series |
1957 |
US Senator James Thurmond (Rep, SC) begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill |
1958 |
Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98) |
1960 |
White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time |
1962 |
55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record) |
1962 |
Dr Geza De Kaplany tortures his wife with acid to punish her for supposed infidelity |
1962 |
Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)" |
1963 |
200,000 march and demonstrate for African American civil rights in Washington, DC |
1963 |
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens |
1963 |
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC |
1964 |
Race riot in Philadelphia |
1964 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1964 |
US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched |
1964 |
WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland |
1965 |
Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guiter at a concert in New York's Forest Hills |
1966 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic |
1967 |
Asif Iqbal & Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt v Eng |
1967 |
Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus |
1968 |
Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Demcratic National Convention |
1968 |
Gerry Fitt, MP, tables a House of Commons motion criticising Royal Ulster Constabulary action in Dungannon on 24 August 1968 and demands that: "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom" |
1970 |
Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970 |
1971 |
The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time. |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1973 |
"Monster Mash" goes gold |
1973 |
"Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold |
1973 |
6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527 |
1973 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1973 |
India & Pakistan sign POW accord |
1973 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1974 |
Soyuz 15 returns to Earth |
1976 |
NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup |
1976 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977 |
Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
1977 |
NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men & beats Texas Rangers 1-0 |
1977 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year |
1977 |
NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship |
1978 |
Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph |
1978 |
Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran |
1979 |
IRA bomb explodes in Brussels' Great Market |
1979 |
Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die |
1981 |
John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan |
1981 |
Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken) |
1981 |
National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men |
1982 |
"Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 perfs |
1982 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1982 |
The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco. |
1983 |
"Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 41 performances |
1983 |
Greg Luzinski is 1st player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park |
1983 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces his resignation |
1983 |
Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour |
1983 |
Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
1984 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1986 |
Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege |
1986 |
Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium |
1986 |
Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood |
1986 |
US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying |
1987 |
Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs |
1988 |
40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years & Richard Kiley win |
1988 |
70 killed in crash of three Italian air force fighters at air show at Ramstein, Germany |
1988 |
88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks |
1988 |
Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open |
1988 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
1989 |
1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners |
1989 |
Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0 |
1990 |
Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively |
1990 |
Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov |
1991 |
Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die |
1991 |
Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher |
1992 |
Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo |
1993 |
Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed |
1993 |
Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed |
1993 |
Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship |
1993 |
Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president |
1994 |
1st Japanese gay pride parade |
1994 |
22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause |
1994 |
94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods |
1995 |
Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson |
1995 |
Northants 7-781 decl defeat Nottinghamshire 527 & 157 |
1995 |
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Abdul Mohsen al-Medej announces that his country will increase its oil production capacity to as much as 3.5 million barrels per day by 2005 |
1996 |
Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants v Middlesex |
1997 |
Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes |
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. |
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 |
20th MTV Awards: Missy Elliott, Beyoncé f/ Jay-Z & Justin Timberlake wins |
2011 |
28th MTV Awards: Katy Perry, Lady Gaga & Justin Bieber wins |
2012 |
Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate |
2013 |
China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons |
2013 |
51 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq |
2016 |
Man Confesses to Killing 2 Nuns in Rural Mississippi, the Police Say |
2016 |
Trump vows crackdown on immigrants who overstay visas if elected |
2016 |
Singapore confirms first case of locally transmitted Zika virus |
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