Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 28
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast of Dormition (Julian calendar) | refimprove |
| 475 – Flavius Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee. | Orestes: refimprove; Julius Nepos: refimprove section |
| 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States. | refimprove section |
| 1849 – Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco, an Italian revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months earlier. | refimprove |
| 1867 – Captain William Reynolds of the USS Lackawanna formally took possession of Midway Atoll for the United States. | refimprove |
| 1988 – During an air show at the Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany, three aircraft of the Italian Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collided and fell into the crowd, killing all three pilots and 67 spectators. | Unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1789 – With the first use of his new 1.2 m (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, which was later named Enceladus.
- 1845 – The first issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American (cover pictured), currently the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States, was published.
- 1901 – Silliman University in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines, became the first American private school to be founded in the country.
- 1909 – A military coup d'etat against the government of Dimitrios Rallis began in the Goudi neighbourhood of Athens, Greece.
- 1914 – In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships defeated the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea.
- 1924 – An unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began.
- 1955 – African American teenager Emmett Till was murdered near Money, Mississippi, for flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond began a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes, the longest one ever by a single Senator.
- 1963 – The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the world's longest floating bridge, opened across Lake Washington in Washington, US.
- 1963 – Two young women were murdered in New York City; the mistreatment of the suspect by the police and his forced confession led New York to abolish its death penalty.
August 28: Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar); Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism, 2013)
- 1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
- 1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Franz Liszt in Weimar, present-day Germany.
- 1937 – Toyota Motors, now Japan's largest automobile manufacturer, was spun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company.
- 1963 – During a large political rally in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, describing his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals.
- 1973 – Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; during the incident the hostages had bonded with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".