This Day in History for 28th August

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 165

475 - The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
476 - German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
476 - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted
489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
1189 - Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1521 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1542 - Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterwards executed.
1565 - Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established
1609 - Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1619 - Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
1632 - Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1637 - WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
1640 - Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn
1655 - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1777 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1789 - Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1830 - 1st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1837 - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
1840 - 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
King of England King Charles I 1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849 - Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
1850 - Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany
1859 - A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.
1861 - Battle of Fort Hatteras NC
1862 - Battle of Thoroughfare Gap VA
1862 - Battle of Groveton, VA (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19] US7000 CS7000
1862 - Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
1867 - US occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
1879 - Battle at Ulundi: Lord Chelmsford beats king Cetshwayo's Zuluz
1884 - 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1884 - Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
1898 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1907 - United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1907 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
Composer Richard Wagner 1908 - 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass
1911 - 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace (The Hague)
1914 - 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
1914 - Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1914 - John French evacuate Amiens
1916 - Germany declares war on Romania
1916 - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1917 - 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
1918 - Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly
1919 - General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
1921 - 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
1921 - Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1922 - 1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4
1922 - Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC
Baseball Great Babe Ruth 1922 - WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio coml (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
1924 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1925 - Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1926 - Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1929 - Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1938 - Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1938 - Northwestern U awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1938 - On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader
1939 - "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
1939 - Netherland mobilizes
1939 - Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres
1940 - French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
1941 - 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
1941 - Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
1942 - 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
1942 - Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)
1942 - Transport nr 25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini 1943 - Benito Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1944 - Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared
1944 - US air raid on Ambon
1949 - 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1949 - Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill NY
1950 - Earle & Roy Mack, purchase 54% of A's from Connie Mack Jr
1951 - Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
1951 - Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak
1952 - German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 - Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1953 - "Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
1955 - 1st NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1955 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1956 - England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series
1957 - Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
1958 - Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
1960 - White Sox Ted Kluzewski's 3-run HR is disallowed as ump called time
1962 - 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
1962 - Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1962 - Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)"
1963 - 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, DC
1963 - Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial
1964 - Race riot in Philadelphia
1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1964 - WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland
Singer-Songwriter Bob Dylan 1965 - Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guiter at a concert in New York's Forest Hills
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
1967 - Asif Iqbal & Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt v Eng
1967 - Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1968 - Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 221

865 - Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian physician
1025 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1476 - Motonoboe, Japanese painter (Kano-school)
1582 - Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (d. 1620)
1592 - George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/PM (1625-28)
1612 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1667 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1721)
1673 - Conrad Michael Schneider, composer
1691 - Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1750)
1700 - Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer
1713 - Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland
1714 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust), (d. 1832)
1754 - Peter Winter, composer
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975), (d. 1821)
1775 - Sophie Gail, composer
1789 - Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d. 1860)
1794 - Johannes Zwijsen, archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)
1795 - Joannes A Paredis, Belgian Bishop of Roermond
1st American-born Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774) 1798 - Gershom Jaques Van Brunt, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1863
1801 - Antoine A Cournot, French philosopher/mathematician (rule of Cournot)
1814 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1824 - Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer, Dutch Catholic politician
1826 - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer
1827 - Teresa Milanollo, composer
1827 - Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1894)
1828 - William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1900
1829 - Albert Dietrich, composer
1831 - Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer
1831 - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady (1877-81)
1833 - Edward Burne-Jones, England, Pre-Raphaelite painter/designer
1840 - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel hymns)
1840 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (d. 1900)
1842 - Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1853 - Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1860 - Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [OS]
1872 - Alfred Baldwin Sloan, composer
1878 - George Hoyt Whipple, US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
1881 - Arne Eggen, composer
1882 - Carl W de Vries, Dutch jurist (Unknown Thorbecke)
1883 - E E Clive, Monmouthshire Wales, actor (Night Must Fall, Dark Hour)
1885 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer
1885 - Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959)
1887 - Daniel Zamudio, composer
1889 - Charles Boyer, France, actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)
1890 - Ivor Gurney, composer
1891 - Stanley Andrews, Chicago IL, actor (Shine on Harvest Moon)
1894 - Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Iron Tower)
1894 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1897 - Morris Ankrum, IL, actor (Kronos, Half Human, Earth vs Flying Saucers)
1898 - Ludwig Turek, writer
1899 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1901 - Cornelis J Kelk, Dutch writer (Dance of Young Feet)
1901 - Paul Henry Lang, Budapest, critic/musicologist (NY Herald Tribune)
1903 - Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer
1904 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1905 - Cyril Walters, cricketer (solid England batsman of 30's)
1905 - Sam Levene, Russia, actor (Demon, Gung Ho, Boomerang)
1906 - John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt Zion)
1907 - Philip A Edwards, Brit Guiana, runner (Olympic-bronze-1928, 32, 36)
1908 - Roger Tory Peterson, NY, ornithologist/writer (How to Know Birds)
1910 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911 - Jose Antonio Giron de Velasco, politician
1911 - Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general (NATO)
1912 - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75)
1913 - John Terence Reese, bridge master
1913 - Lindsay Hassett, cricketer (great Australian bat & capt after Bradman)
1913 - Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], Brooklyn NY, Tenor (NY Met Opera)
1914 - Glenn Osser, Munising Mich, orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue)
1915 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1915 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (d. 2008)
1916 - C Wright Mills, sociologist, writer (The Power Elite) [or May 28]
1916 - Jack [Holbrook] Vance, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume)
1916 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
Comic Book Artist and Writer Jack Kirby (1917) 1917 - Jack Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Capt America)
1918 - Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician
1919 - Ernest H Martin, [Markowitz], producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
1920 - Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1921 - Joop Doderer, Velsen Netherlands, actor (Swiebertje)
1921 - Nancy Kulp, Harrisburg PA, actress (Miss Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies)
1921 - Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (d. 2007)
1924 - Janet Frame, NZ, novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry)
1924 - Peggy Ryan, Long Beach California, actress (Jenny-Hawaii Five-0)
1924 - Tony MacGibbon, NZ cricket fast bowler (took 70 wickets in 1950's)
1924 - Vilayat Khan, composer
1925 - Arkadi N Strugazki, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika)
1925 - John Gillett, film researcher
1925 - Marvin Davis, Newark NJ, CEO (Davis Oil Company)
1925 - Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist
1928 - James Wild, music teacher
1928 - F. William Free, American advertising executive (d. 2003)
1929 - Rokie Roker, Miami Fla, actress (Helen-Jeffersons)
1930 - Ben Gazzara, NYC, actor (Run for Your Life, QB VII), (d. 2012)
1930 - Windsor Davies, British actor
1931 - John Perkins, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1931 - John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone (Death in Venice)
1931 - Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario
1932 - Andy Bathgate, Canada, NY Ranger (1958 NHL MVP)
1932 - Carlene Polite, US dancer/activist/author (Sister X)
1932 - [Moriyuki] Pat Morita, Isleton CA, actor (Hiroshima, Karate Kid)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 7 of 7

1811 - English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16)
1924 - British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36)
1968 - 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
1997 - British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West
2004 - "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" actress Mariska Hargitay (40) weds actor-writer Peter Hermann (37) at the Unitarian Society in Santa Barbara, California
2007 - "Diff'rent Strokes" actor Gary Coleman (40) weds Shannon Price (22) at Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada
2010 - "Pretty Little Liars" actor Chad Lowe (42) weds film producer Kim Painter at Terranea Resort in Los Angeles

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2009 - Blake Fielder-Civil (27) divorces Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (25) due to adultery after 2 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 98 of 98

388 - Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed
430 - Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (Belijdenissen), dies at 75
876 - Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies
1065 - Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Neth-Lutherans (1046-65)
1341 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
1481 - Afonso V, King of Portugal, dies
1484 - Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered
1539 - Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75
1544 - Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53
1550 - Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's asst sec of state, dies
1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1646 - Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53
1647 - Johann Dilliger, composer, dies at 53
1654 - Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71
1676 - Joan Cererols, composer, dies at 57
1677 - Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 54
1678 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1757 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1767 - Johann Schobert, composer, dies
1778 - Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/shipminister, dies
1784 - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
1793 - Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies
1798 - James Wilson, Scot/US judge/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 55
1803 - Charles L Fournier, Flemish writer/painter, dies
1805 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies
1820 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1839 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1885 - Julius Hopp, composer, dies at 66
1900 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Women on University), dies
1903 - August Labitzky, composer, dies at 70
1903 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1914 - Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, composer (Baba Yaga), dies at 59 [NS]
1914 - Anatoli Liadov, composer, dies at 59
1916 - Francis W Warre-Cornish, Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916), dies
1922 - Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80
1930 - Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies
1933 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1943 - Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies
1944 - Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald
1947 - Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1917)
1951 - Robert Walker, actor/writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32
1955 - Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
1958 - Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov, composer, dies at 67
1959 - Bohuslav Jan Martinu, Czech composer (Hry o Marti), dies at 68
1960 - Anton Lajovic, composer, dies at 81
1961 - Thomas Connolly, 1st baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
1964 - Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen), dies at 62
1964 - Lumsden Hare, actor (Oregon Trail, Desert Fox), dies at 89
1965 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1967 - Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly, dies
1968 - John Gordon Mein, US ambassador in Guatemala, dies
1968 - Nick Castle, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), dies at 58
1969 - Clarence R Hennecke, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 74
1971 - Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies
1972 - William HAF, Engl prince/grandson of George V, dies in accident at 29
1975 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1978 - Bruce Catton, US historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78
1979 - Simonow, writer, dies
1981 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1982 - G W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies
1982 - Nini de Boel, Flemish operetta singer (White Horse), dies at 84
1983 - Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66
1985 - Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88
1987 - John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
1988 - Hazel Dawn, US singer/actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98
1988 - Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v England 1933), dies
1990 - Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies
1991 - Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies
1991 - Eleanor Berry, actress (Death Valley Days), dies
1993 - René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80
1993 - William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
1994 - David Wright, poet, dies at 74
1994 - Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian pater, murdered
1994 - Pieter de Cort, Belgian rock guitarist (Betty Goes Green), dies at 25
1995 - Agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85
1995 - Michael Ende, German writer (Neverending Story), dies at 65
1995 - Michael VerMeulen, journalist, dies at 38
1995 - Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
1996 - Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50
1996 - Phyllis Pearsall, painter/writer, dies at 89
2003 - Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
2005 - Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
2005 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2006 - Benoît Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (b. 1963)
2006 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2007 - Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (b. 1926)
2007 - Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB/Punk rock legend (b. 1932)
2007 - Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (b. 1925)
2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
2007 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
2007 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007 - Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
2008 - Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)
2009 - Adam Goldstein, American DJ also known as DJ AM (b. 1973)
2010 - William P. Foster, notable band director and founder of the Marching 100 of Florida A&M University
2011 - Bernie Gallacher, British footballer (Aston Villa) (b. 1967)