August, 28th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Sunday 28, 2005:
A mandatory evacuation is ordered by New Orleans, Louisiana mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco as Hurricane Katrina moved nearer to Louisiana.

Tuesday 28, 2001:
Dutch prime minister Wim Kok announces that he will not be available for another term as PvdA party leader or prime minister after the 2002 elections.

Friday 28, 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.

Wednesday 28, 1996:
Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.

Monday 28, 1995:
A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Sunday 28, 1994:
First Japanese gay pride march.

Saturday 28, 1993:
Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore

Wednesday 28, 1991:
A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City. The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.

Tuesday 28, 1990:
The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.

Sunday 28, 1988:
At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.

Thursday 28, 1986:
US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.

Friday 28, 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.

Tuesday 28, 1979:
An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.

Thursday 28, 1975:
Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.

Monday 28, 1972:
During the Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.

Saturday 28, 1971:
The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.

Wednesday 28, 1968:
Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention

Friday 28, 1964:
The Philadelphia race riot began.

Wednesday 28, 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.

Sunday 28, 1955:
Black Mississippian Emmett Till is murdered, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.

Friday 28, 1953:
Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

Monday 28, 1944:
Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

Saturday 28, 1943:
In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.

Saturday 28, 1937:
Toyota Motors becomes an independent company

Tuesday 28, 1917:
Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.

Monday 28, 1916:
1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.

Friday 28, 1914:
The British fleet beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

Thursday 28, 1913:
Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.

Sunday 28, 1898:
Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".

Thursday 28, 1884:
First known photograph of a tornado is made.

Thursday 28, 1879:
Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

Wednesday 28, 1867:
The United States occupies Midway Island.

Thursday 28, 1862:
Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas

Wednesday 28, 1850:
Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany.

Tuesday 28, 1849:
After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.

Thursday 28, 1845:
Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

Saturday 28, 1830:
The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.

Wednesday 28, 1619:
Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Friday 28, 1609:
Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.

Saturday 28, 1565:
St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.

Sunday 28, 1521:
The Turks occupy Belgrade

Sunday 28, 489:
Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.

Wednesday 28, 475:
The Pannonian general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints Romulus Augustus in his place.

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People born on August 28

1986:
Keri Sable, American actress (b: August 28, 1986) (Biography of Keri Sable)

1982:
LeAnn Rimes, American singer (b: August 28, 1982) (Biography of LeAnn Rimes)

1981:
Martin Erat, Czech hockey player (b: August 28, 1981) (Biography of Martin Erat)

1979:
Robert Hoyzer, German football referee (b: August 28, 1979) (Biography of Robert Hoyzer)

1971:
Janet Evans, American swimmer (b: August 28, 1971) (Biography of Janet Evans)

1969:
Jason Priestley, Canadian actor (b: August 28, 1969) (Biography of Jason Priestley)
Jack Black, American actor and musician (b: August 28, 1969) (Biography of Jack Black (actor))

1968:
Billy Boyd, Scottish actor (b: August 28, 1968) (Biography of Billy Boyd)

1965:
Shania Twain, Canadian singer (b: August 28, 1965) (Biography of Shania Twain)

1961:
Kim Appleby, British singer (b: August 28, 1961) (Biography of Kim Appleby)

1960:
Emma Samms, English actress (b: August 28, 1960) (Biography of Emma Samms)

1958:
Scott Hamilton, American figure skater (b: August 28, 1958) (Biography of Scott Hamilton)

1957:
Daniel Stern, American actor (b: August 28, 1957) (Biography of Daniel Stern (actor))
Rick Rossovich, American actor (b: August 28, 1957) (Biography of Rick Rossovich)

1947:
Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress (b: August 28, 1947) (Biography of Liza Wang)

1943:
David Soul, American actor (b: August 28, 1943) (Biography of David Soul)
Lou Piniella, baseball manager (b: August 28, 1943) (Biography of Lou Piniella)

1941:
Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat (b: August 28, 1941) (Biography of Sybille de Selys Longchamps)

1938:
Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist (b: August 28, 1938) (Biography of Maurizio Costanzo)

1931:
John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone (b: August 28, 1931) (Biography of John Shirley-Quirk)

1930:
Ben Gazzara, American actor (b: August 28, 1930) (Biography of Ben Gazzara)

1929:
Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b: August 28, 1929) (Biography of Istvan Kertesz)

1925:
Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (b: August 28, 1925 ; d: September 27, 2003) (Biography of Donald O'Connor)

1924:
Janet Frame, New Zealand author (b: August 28, 1924) (Biography of Janet Frame)
Peggy Ryan, American actress (b: August 28, 1924 ; d: October 30, 2004) (Biography of Peggy Ryan)

1919:
Godfrey Hounsfield, English electrical engineer and inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b: August 28, 1919 ; d: August 12, 2004) (Biography of Godfrey Hounsfield)

1917:
Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (b: August 28, 1917 ; d: February 6, 1994) (Biography of Jack Kirby)

1916:
Jack Vance, American author (b: August 28, 1916) (Biography of Jack Vance)

1913:
Richard Tucker, American tenor (b: August 28, 1913 ; d: January 8, 1975) (Biography of Richard Tucker)
Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (b: August 28, 1913 ; d: December 2, 1995) (Biography of Robertson Davies)

1911:
Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (b: August 28, 1911) (Biography of Joseph Luns)

1910:
Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist (b: August 28, 1910 ; d: February 26, 1985) (Biography of Tjalling Koopmans)

1908:
Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and illustrator (b: August 28, 1908) (Biography of Roger Tory Peterson)

1906:
John Betjeman, English poet (b: August 28, 1906 ; d: May 19, 1984) (Biography of John Betjeman)

1904:
Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (b: August 28, 1904 ; d: February 7, 1980) (Biography of Secondo Campini)

1903:
Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (b: August 28, 1903 ; d: March 13, 1990) (Biography of Bruno Bettelheim)

1897:
Charles Boyer, French actor (b: August 28, 1897 ; d: August 26, 1978) (Biography of Charles Boyer)

1894:
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b: August 28, 1894 ; d: August 14, 1981) (Biography of Karl Böhm)

1867:
Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b: August 28, 1867 ; d: November 12, 1948) (Biography of Umberto Giordano)

1849:
Benjamin Godard, French composer (b: August 28, 1849 ; d: January 10, 1895) (Biography of Benjamin Godard)

1814:
Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (b: August 28, 1814 ; d: February 7, 1873) (Biography of Sheridan Le Fanu)

1774:
Elizabeth Ann Seton, first American-born Catholic saint (b: August 28, 1774 ; d: January 4, 1821) (Biography of Elizabeth Ann Seton)

1749:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (b: August 28, 1749 ; d: March 22, 1832) (Biography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

1612:
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b: August 28, 1612 ; d: October 3, 1653) (Biography of Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn)

1592:
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b: August 28, 1592 ; d: August 23, 1628) (Biography of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham)

1025:
Emperor Go-Reizei, emperor of Japan (b: August 28, 1025 ; d: May 22, 1068) (Biography of Emperor Go-Reizei)

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