Editing August 28 (section)

===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>