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Historical Events on August 28

475
The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
489
Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
632
Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad died, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
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 under Guy of Lusignan.
1521
The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1524
The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1542
Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-57): Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
1565
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
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 loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1648
The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.
1709
Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1789
William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
1810
Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
1830
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroads.
1833
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire.
1845
The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1849
After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
1859
The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
1861
American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
1862
American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
1867
The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
1879
Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1898
Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
1901
Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
1909
A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
1913
Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914
World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914
World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
1916
World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1916
World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1917
Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
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
Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
1944
World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1955
Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent Civil Rights Movement.
1957
U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1963
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
1964
The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1968
Rioting takes place in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, triggering a brutal police crackdown.
1988
Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1990
Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990
An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
1993
The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
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
Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

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