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- 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.
- 1189 The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
- 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 Christovo da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
- 1565 St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
- 1609 Delaware Bay explored by Henry Hudson for the Netherlands
- 1609 Explorer Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay
- 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- 1619 Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1640 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
- 1776 Battle of Long Island
- 1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
- 1830 The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
- 1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
- 1849 After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
- 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 Battle of 2nd Bull Run
- 1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
- 1862 Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
- 1867 The United States occupies Midway Island.
- 1867 US occupies Midway Islands in the Pacific
- 1879 Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
- 1884 First known photograph of a tornado is made.
- 1884 The first known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
- 1898 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
- 1904 The first jail sentence for speeding in an automobile is pronounced in Newport, RI.
- 1907 UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
- 1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
- 1914 The Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
- 1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
- 1916 Italy declares war on Germany.
- 1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket the White House
- 1917 Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
- 1920 Visitor posting - BOB WOLF born - USA
- 1921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
- 1922 Joseph-Elzéar Bernier builds Craig Harbour, Canada's most northerly settlement to date at 76 degrees I0' N; on the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition.
- 1922 The first radio commercial is broadcast. Queensboro Realty receives 10 minutes of air time on New York station WEAF for $100.
- 1924 Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- 1934 Visitor posting - August 28, 1934 The GREATEST TEACHER IN THE WORLD WAS BORN Yisrayl Hawkins
- 1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1941 The Dominion Observatory time becomes Canada's official time at 1 pm on this day.
- 1942 Reigner cable is sent to Stephen S. Wise - specifying Nazi plans to exterminate almost 4 million Jews.
- 1943 In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- 1944 Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
- 1952 First guided missile launched from ship during Korean Conflict
- 1952 Visitor posting - REV ROBERT D HUNTER AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL PASTOR, BORN IN FLORENCE, SC. RETIRED COLONEL US ARMY AND FATHER OF TWO. SON OF GEOREGE AND MINDAY HUNTER, GRANDSON OF ADAM AND MINNIE HUNTER AND BILLY AND CATHERINE ANDREWS. - USA
- 1953 Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- 1956 Visitor posting - Vosloo, Martha Gertuida born - SPECIAL GIRL LOVING JESUS!
- 1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
- 1958 Visitor posting - Gerald Batie; the greatest father in the world is born!!!! - USA
- 1961 Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
- 1962 Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
- 1962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
- 1963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
- 1963 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his I Have a Dream speech before an audience of 250,000 near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
- 1963 During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
- 1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
- 1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
- 1964 Beatlemania is in full swing as The Beatles grace the cover of LIFE magazine.
- 1964 Race riot in Philadelphia
- 1964 The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- 1968 Anti-war demonstrators clash with police in Chicago, where Hubert H. Humphrey receives the Democratic nomination for president.
- 1968 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beach Boys - Do It Again
- 1968 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
- 1968 Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
- 1970 Visitor posting - Marie born - USA
- 1971 25 people die and 1,150 are rescued when the Greek liner Haleanna catches fire.
- 1971 The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
- 1972 Mark Spitz earns the first of seven gold medals, seting a world record in the 200-meter butterfly at the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
- 1973 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
- 1973 An earthquake jolts Mexico, killing more than 500 people.
- 1973 In Veracruz, Mexico a 7.2 earthquake resulted in more than 600 reported killed, thousands injured
- 1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
- 1975 Visitor posting - Kimberley K. Wells Born today George Air Force Base - USA
- 1978 Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
- 1979 An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
- 1980 Visitor posting - Jason Black was born and destined for greatness! - USA
- 1981 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan
- 1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to attempting to kill US President Ronald Reagan. He is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
- 1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
- 1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
- 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 Visitor posting - Mercy Lumanog was born ,, i love her so - USA
- 1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
- 1985 Launch of Aussat, Australia's first domestic communications satellite
- 1986 Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
- 1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
- 1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
- 1988 Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 69 are killed.
- 1990 Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province
- 1990 Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1990 The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
- 1991 5 die in a NYC subway's 3rd worst accident
- 1991 Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
- 1991 Visitor posting - August 28 1991 My Yoon Lay was born
- 1992 National Defence sends destroyer HMCS Gatineau to monitor UN embargo against Yugoslavia and moves to NATO standing force in Mediterranean
- 1993 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
- 1993 A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
- 1995 A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
- 1995 Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank announce plans for a $10 billion merger to become the largest bank in the US.
- 1995 Visitor posting - abbie warren born :) - United Kingdom
- 1995 Visitor posting - Jack Jarman born. I have a cat named Oreo. - USA [email protected]
- 1996 Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce, ending 15 years of marriage.
- 1996 Britons Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Pedro Ramos and Debra Velasco were married - USA
- 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 Collar Bomb incident in Erie, Pennsylvania, he died from the time bomb.
- 2005 Hurricane Katrina upgraded to Category 5 storm; city of New Orleans put under its first mandatory evacuation order
- 2009 A suicide bomber lightly wounds Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, deputy interior minister of Saudi Arabia, in his Jeddah office.
- 2009 According to declassified documents released this week, a survival manual produced by Transport Canada was used by U.S. interrogators to set limits on dousing detainees with cold water as a form of water torture.
- 2009 Clashes between rebels and government troops in the Kokang region of northeastern Burma continue, with around 30,000 refugees fleeing across the border to China.
- 2009 Iceland's Althing votes in favour of repaying more than US$5 billion owed to the governments of the the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as a result of the collapse of the Icesave bank.
- 2009 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for opposition leaders to be punished over election protests which occurred earlier this year.
- 2009 Japan's unemployment rate reaches a record high of 5.7%.
- 2009 King Mohammed VI of Morocco is hospitalized for five days for treatment of a rotavirus and dehydration.
- 2009 NASA launches the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-128) for a resupply and crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The mission will also deliver the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo. This is Discovery's 37th flight and will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its first flight during the mission.
- 2009 Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi launches legal action against French weekly Nouvel Observateur, Spanish newspaper El País, and Italian newspaper La Repubblica, and has authorized his attorneys to prepare cases against British newspapers, charging the newspapers with libel.
- 2009 Reading Rainbow, the third longest-running children's show on United States public-service television network PBS, ends its 26-year run.
- 2009 The Los Angeles County coroner rules that American entertainer and musician Michael Jackson's death was a homicide caused by acute intoxication from the drug propofol.
- 2009 The United Nations warns that poultry farms could become infected with the H1N1 virus, following the discovery of the virus in turkeys in Chile last week.
- 2009 The detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time. The physical shape of single carbon nanotubes has been outlined before, using similar techniques, but the new method even shows up chemical bonds.
- 2009 United Nations diplomats confirm the United Arab Emirates seized a North Korean ship carrying weapons to Iran, in violation of Security Council Resolution 1874.
- 2010 Visitor posting - Glenn Beck hosts "Restore Honor" rally at Lincoln Memorial - USA
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