August 28

2024 Calendar

August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

489 - Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into present-day Italy.
663 - Silla-Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
1189 - Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre, present-day Lebanon, under Guy of Lusignan.
1521 – Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1524 - The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1565 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles sights land near St. Augustine, Florida, which becomes the oldest-continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
1609 - Henry Hudson reaches Delaware Bay.
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor.
1640 - Second Bishop's War: Charles I of England's army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1709 - Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1789 – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
1845 – The first edition of the Scientific American magazine is published.
1850 - Richard Wagner's Lohengrin Romantic opera is first performed in Weimar, under direction of Franz Liszt.
1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extends its blockage strategy by capturing the Confederate forts on North Carolina's Center Banks.
1862 - American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run.
1867 – The United States annexes the Midway Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
1879 – Cetshwayo, the last king of the Zulus is captured by the British.
1898 - Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will become known as Pepsi Cola.

1901 – 2000

1909 - A military coup d'état against the government of Dimitrios Rallis in Greece begins.
1913 – The Peace Palace in The Hague is inaugurated.
1914 - World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet at the First Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1916 - World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. On the same day, Italy declares war on Germany.
1917 - Ten suffragettes (campaigners for women's right to vote) are arrested after a protest outside the White House in Washington, DC.
1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943 - World War II: A general strike in Denmark against the occupiers begins.
1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953 – Nippon TV broadcasts Japan's first television programme.
1955 – African American teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi.
1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his famous I Have a Dream speech, calling for Civil Rights and equal opportunities.
1963 - The Evergreen Point Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina in Washington state, United States.
1964 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968 - Riots occur in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic Party's National Convention.
1971 - A fire on the Greek ferry Heleanna kills 26 people.
1972 - Mark Spitz wins the first two of his total of seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
1973 - Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca in Mexico are struck by an earthquake, killing 1,200 people.
1979 - An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt, Brussels, Belgium.
1984 - In Amstetten, Austria, Josef Fritzl locks up his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar behind his house. She would remain imprisoned there for over 23 years until April 26, 2008.
1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolore demonstration team collide, with the wreckage falling into the crowd, killing 75 people and injuring 346.
1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait its newest province.
1990 - A Force 5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
1991 – Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales officially divorce.