Editing August 28 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[475]] &ndash; The [[Roman Empire|Roman]] general [[Orestes (father of Romulus Augustulus)|Orestes]] forces western [[Roman Emperors|Roman Emperor]] [[Julius Nepos]] to flee his [[capital city]], [[Ravenna]].
* [[489]] &ndash; [[Theodoric the Great|Theodoric]], king of the [[Ostrogoths]], defeats [[Odoacer]] at the [[Battle of Isonzo (489)|Battle of Isonzo]], forcing his way into Italy.
* [[632]] &ndash; [[Fatimah]], daughter of the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]], dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the [[Sunni]] Muslims and [[Shia]] Muslims.
* [[663]] &ndash; [[Silla]]–[[Tang dynasty|Tang]] armies crush the [[Baekje]] restoration attempt and force [[Yamato period|Yamato Japan]] to withdraw from Korea in the [[Battle of Baekgang]].
*[[1189]] &ndash; [[Third Crusade]]: The Crusaders begin the [[Siege of Acre (1189–91)|Siege of Acre]] under [[Guy of Lusignan]].
*[[1521]] &ndash; [[Ottoman wars in Europe]]: The [[Ottoman Turks]] occupy [[Belgrade]].
*[[1524]] &ndash; The [[Kaqchikel people|Kaqchikel]] [[Maya civilization|Maya]] rebel against their former Spanish allies during the [[Spanish conquest of Guatemala]].
*[[1542]] &ndash; [[Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–59)|Turkish–Portuguese War]]: [[Battle of Wofla]]: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader [[Christovão da Gama]] is captured and later executed.
*[[1565]] &ndash; [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]] sights land near [[St. Augustine, Florida]] and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the [[Contiguous United States|continental United States]].

===1601–1900===
*[[1609]] &ndash; [[Henry Hudson]] discovers [[Delaware Bay]].
*[[1619]] &ndash; Election of [[Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor]].
*[[1640]] &ndash; [[Bishops' Wars#Second Bishops' War (1640)|Second Bishop's War]]: King [[Charles I of England|Charles I]]'s English army loses to a [[Covenanter|Scottish Covenanter]] force at the [[Battle of Newburn]].
*[[1648]] &ndash; [[Second English Civil War]]: The [[Siege of Colchester]] ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks.
*[[1709]] &ndash; [[Pamheiba|Meidingnu Pamheiba]] is crowned King of [[Manipur]].
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[William Herschel]] discovers a new [[Moons of Saturn|moon of Saturn]]: [[Enceladus]].
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Napoleonic Wars]]: The [[French Navy]] accepts the surrender of a British [[Royal Navy]] fleet at the [[Battle of Grand Port]]. 
*[[1830]] &ndash; The [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]]'s new ''[[Tom Thumb (locomotive)|Tom Thumb]]'' [[steam locomotive]] races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
*[[1833]] &ndash; The [[Slavery Abolition Act 1833]] receives [[royal assent]], making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the [[British Empire]] with [[Slavery Abolition Act 1833#Exceptions and continuations|exceptions]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (repealed 19.11.1998) |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/3-4/73/1991-02-01/data.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/3-4/73/1991-02-01/data.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=28 August 2022 |website=legislation.gov.uk}}</ref>
*[[1845]] &ndash; The first issue of ''[[Scientific American]]'' magazine is published.
*[[1849]] &ndash; [[Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire]]: After a month-long siege, [[Venice]], which had declared itself independent as the [[Republic of San Marco]], surrenders to Austria.
*[[1850]] &ndash; [[Richard Wagner]]’s ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' premieres at the [[Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar|Staatskapelle Weimar]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Abellthe |first=Arthur M. |date=27 August 1950 |title=Turning Point: Tomorrow is the 100th Anniversary of the Premiere of ''Lohengrin'' |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/08/27/archives/turning-point-tomorrow-is-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-premiere-of.html |access-date=28 August 2022}}</ref>
*[[1859]] &ndash; The [[Solar storm of 1859|Carrington event]] is the strongest [[geomagnetic storm]] on record to strike the Earth. [[Electrical telegraph]] service is widely disrupted.
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] forces attack [[Cape Hatteras]], [[North Carolina]] in the [[Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries]] which lasts for two days.
*[[1862]] &ndash; American Civil War: The [[Second Battle of Bull Run]], also known as the Battle of Second Manassas, begins in Virginia.  The battle ends on August 30 with another Union defeat.  
*[[1867]] &ndash; The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) [[Midway Atoll]].
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Anglo-Zulu War]]: [[Cetshwayo]], last king of the [[Zulu people|Zulu]]s, is captured by the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]].
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Caleb Bradham]]'s beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "[[Pepsi|Pepsi-Cola]]".

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[Silliman University]] is founded in the [[Philippines]]. It is the first American [[private school]] in the country.
*[[1909]] &ndash; A group of mid-level [[Greek Army]] officers launches the [[Goudi coup]], seeking wide-ranging reforms.
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands|Queen Wilhelmina]] opens the [[Peace Palace]] in [[The Hague]].
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: The [[Royal Navy]] defeats the [[German Empire|German]] fleet in the [[Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)|Battle of Heligoland Bight]].
*[[1916]] &ndash; World War I: Germany declares war on [[Kingdom of Romania|Romania]].
*  1916   &ndash; World War I: [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] declares war on Germany.
*[[1917]] &ndash; Ten [[suffragists]], members of the [[Silent Sentinels]], are arrested while picketing the [[White House]] in favor of [[women's suffrage in the United States]].
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Russian Civil War]]: The [[Red Army]] dissolves the [[Makhnovshchina]] after driving the [[Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine|Revolutionary Insurgent Army]] out of [[Ukrainian War of Independence|Ukraine]].
*[[1924]] &ndash; The [[Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic|Georgian]] opposition stages the [[August Uprising]] against the [[Soviet Union]].
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Nazi Germany]] begins its [[Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany|mass arrests]] of [[Jehovah's Witnesses]], who are interned in [[Nazi concentration camps|concentration camps]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=1936: Key Dates|url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/1936-key-dates|access-date=2022-01-17|website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org|language=en}}</ref> 
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Toyota|Toyota Motors]] becomes an independent company.
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Marseille]] and [[Toulon]] are liberated.
*[[1946]] &ndash; The [[Workers' Party of North Korea]], predecessor of the ruling [[Workers' Party of Korea]], is founded at a [[1st Congress of the Workers' Party of North Korea|congress]] held in [[Pyongyang]], [[Provisional People's Committee of North Korea|North Korea]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Suh |first=Dae-Sook |date=January 1986 |title=North Korea in 1985: A New Era after Forty Years |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2644095 |journal=[[Asian Survey]] |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=78–85 |doi=10.2307/2644095 |jstor=2644095 }}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[African Americans|Black]] teenager [[Emmett Till]] is lynched in [[Mississippi]] for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent [[civil rights movement]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[Strom Thurmond]] begins [[Strom Thurmond filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957|a filibuster]] to prevent the [[United States Senate]] from voting on the [[Civil Rights Act of 1957]]; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest [[Filibuster in the United States Senate|filibuster]] ever conducted by a single Senator.
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]]: Rev. Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] gives his ''[[I Have a Dream]]'' speech.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Birch |first1=Jonah |first2=Michael K. |last2=Honey |title=The Second Emancipation |url=https://jacobin.com/2018/05/the-second-emancipation |access-date=6 December 2022 |magazine=[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] |issue=29 |date=23 May 2018 |page=18 |issn=2470-6930}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; The [[1964 Philadelphia race riot|Philadelphia race riot]] begins.
*[[1968]] &ndash; Police and protesters clash during [[1968 Democratic National Convention protests]] as protesters chant "[[The whole world is watching]]".<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|location=London |access-date=July 29, 2019|title=The whole world is watching|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2018/aug/19/the-whole-world-is-watching-chicago-police-riot-vietnam-war-regan}}</ref>
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Norrmalmstorg robbery]]: [[Stockholm]] police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers [[Jan-Erik Olsson]] and [[Clark Olofsson]], defusing the [[Norrmalmstorg robbery|Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis]]. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term ''[[Stockholm syndrome]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kamm |first1=Henry |title=Stockholm Police Seize 2 in Vault, Free 4 Hostages |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/29/archives/stockholm-police-seize-2-in-vault-free-4-hostages-3-women-leave.html |work=The New York Times |issue=42221|volume=122 |date=29 August 1973}}</ref>
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[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]] &ndash; [[Gulf War]]: [[Iraq]] declares [[Kuwait]] to be its [[Kuwait Governorate|newest]] [[Governorates of Iraq|province]].
*  1990   &ndash; [[1990 Plainfield tornado|An F5 tornado]] strikes the [[Illinois]] cities of [[Plainfield, Illinois|Plainfield]] and [[Joliet, Illinois|Joliet]], killing 29 people.
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[NASA]]'s [[Galileo (spacecraft)|''Galileo'']] probe performs a [[243 Ida#Galileo flyby|flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida]]. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known [[Minor-planet moon|asteroid moon]], in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
*  1993   &ndash; [[1993 Singaporean presidential election|Singaporean presidential election]]: Former Deputy Prime Minister [[Ong Teng Cheong]] is elected [[President of Singapore]]. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sim |first=Cheryl |title=Singapore's presidents &#124; Infopedia |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_808_2004-12-28.html |access-date=28 August 2022 |website=Infopedia – National Library Board, Singapore – NLB Eresources}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Porter |first=Barry |date=9 July 1999 |title=Lion City plays the polls game |work=[[South China Morning Post]] |url=http://www.singapore-window.org/sw99/90709sc.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828135936/http://www.singapore-window.org/sw99/90709sc.htm |archive-date=28 August 2011}}</ref>
*  1993   &ndash; The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] is transformed into the [[Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Klemenčić |first1=Mladen |last2=Pratt |first2=Martin |last3=Schofield |first3=Clive H. |date=1994 |title=Territorial Proposals for the Settlement of the War in Bosnia-Hercegovina |location=Durham |publisher=International Boundaries Research Unit |pages=57–59 |isbn=9781897643150}}</ref>
*  1993   &ndash; A [[Tajik Air|Tajikistan Airlines]] [[Yakovlev Yak-40]] [[1993 Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crash|crashes]] during takeoff from [[Khorog Airport]] in Tajikistan, killing 82.<ref name="asn">{{cite web |title=Accident description |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19930828-2 |accessdate=27 May 2014 |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Chicago Seven]] defendant [[David Dellinger]], antiwar activist [[Bradford Lyttle]], [[Civil Rights Movement]] historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the [[Federal Protective Service (United States)|Federal Protective Service]] while protesting in a demonstration at the [[Kluczynski Federal Building]] in downtown [[Chicago]] during [[1996 Democratic National Convention|that year's Democratic National Convention]].<ref>{{Citation|last=|first=|author-link=|last2=|first2=|title= The Federal Protective Service arrested 11 protesters Wednesday in...|newspaper= [[United Press International]]|pages=|date= August 28, 1996|url= https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/08/28/The-Federal-Protective-Service-arrested-11-protesters-Wednesday-in/9884841204800/ |access-date= November 19, 2022}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Pakistan]]'s [[National Assembly of Pakistan|National Assembly]] passes a [[Constitution of Pakistan|constitutional]] amendment to make the "[[Quran|Qur'an]] and [[Sunnah]]" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the [[Senate of Pakistan|Senate]].
*  1998   &ndash; [[Second Congo War]]: [[Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|Loyalist troops]] backed by [[Angola]]n and [[Zimbabwean]] forces repulse the [[Rally for Congolese Democracy|RCD]] and [[Rwanda]]n offensive on [[Kinshasa]].
*[[1999]] &ndash; The Russian space mission [[Soyuz TM-29]] reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the [[space station]] ''[[Mir]]'' as it approaches the end of its life.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Harland |first=David M. |title=The Story of Space Station Mir |publisher=Praxis Publishing |year=2005 |isbn=9780387230115 |edition=1st |location=New York|pages=277–295 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the [[FBI]]", [[Death of Brian Wells|Brian Wells]] dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a [[bank robbery]], a [[scavenger hunt]], and a [[Improvised explosive device|homemade explosive device]].<ref>Drew Griffin and David Fitzpatrick (August 8, 2011) [http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/05/pizza.bomb/ New details revealed in 'pizza collar bomb' heist], CNN.com, accessed 13 May 2018</ref>
*[[2009]] &ndash; NASA's [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] launches on [[STS-128]].<ref name="launch_2">{{cite news |last=Harwood |first=William |date=August 28, 2009 |title=Discovery en route to space station for delivery mission |url=http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts128/090828launch/ |access-date=August 31, 2009 |work=CBS News |publisher= |via=spaceflightnow.com}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; The first experimental mission of [[Indian Space Research Organisation|ISRO]]'s Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from [[Satish Dhawan Space Centre]] SHAR, [[Sriharikota]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Scramjet Engine – TD – ISRO |url=https://www.isro.gov.in/launcher/scramjet-engine-td}}</ref>
*[[2017]] &ndash; [[2017 China–India border standoff|China–India border standoff]]: [[China]] and [[India]] both pull their troops out of [[Doklam]], putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/world/asia/china-india-standoff-withdrawal.html China and India Agree to Ease Tensions in Border Dispute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828234241/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/world/asia/china-india-standoff-withdrawal.html  |date=28 August 2017 }}, ''The New York Times'', 28 August 2017.</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[2022 Phoenix shooting]]: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], resulting in the deaths of 3 people, including the perpetrator.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2022-09-09 |title=Phoenix police share chilling video from shooting rampage |url=https://apnews.com/article/shootings-phoenix-9bfe1e54fd882e510d8aa6fb6217528a |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>