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On this day - August 28
475 — The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius ...
489 — Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the ...
632 — Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with ...
663 — Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and ...
1189 — Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy ...
1521 — Ottoman wars in Europe: The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1524 — The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies ...
1542 — Turkish–Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are ...
1565 — Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, ...
1609 — Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619 — Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1640 — Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army ...
1648 — Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when ...
1709 — Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1789 — William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
1810 — Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a ...
1830 — The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam ...
1833 — The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, making ...
1845 — The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1849 — Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire: After a month-long ...
1850 — Richard Wagner's Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle ...
1859 — The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on ...
1861 — American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North ...
1862 — American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known ...
1867 — The United States takes possession of the (at this point ...
1879 — Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured ...
1898 — Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is ...
1901 — Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the ...
1909 — A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi ...
1913 — Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914 — World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the ...
1916 — World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1916 — World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1917 — Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested ...
1921 — Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina ...
1924 — The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the ...
1936 — Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's ...
1937 — Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 — Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish ...
1944 — World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1946 — The Workers' Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ...
1955 — Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for ...
1957 — U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the ...
1963 — March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin ...
1964 — The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 — Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National ...
1973 — Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders ...
1988 — Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce ...
1990 — An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and ...
1990 — Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1993 — A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff ...
1993 — The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia ...
1993 — Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime ...
1993 — NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 ...
1996 — Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist ...
1998 — Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and ...
1998 — Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional ...
1999 — The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ...
2003 — In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the ...
2009 — NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.
2016 — The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine ...
2017 — China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their ...
2022 — Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a ...