Today in History
August 28 - Today in History
By Staff
Aug 28, 2008 - 12:00:00 AM

0388 - Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed
0430 - Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75
0476 - German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
0476 - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted
0876 - Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies
1481 - Afonso V, King of Portugal, dies
1521 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1565 - Oldest city in the US, St Augustine, Florida, established
1609 - Henry Hudson, discovers and 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
1655 - New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1789 - Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1830 - First locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1837 - Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
1840 - 9 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1849 - Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
1861 - Battle of Fort Hatteras North Carolina
1862 - Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
1862 - Battle of Groveton, Virginia (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
1883 - Slavery banned throughout British Empire
1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard SD
1884 - Mickey Welsh strikes-out first 9 men he faces
1907 - United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
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
1920 - 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights
1921 - 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels and Paris)
1921 - Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1922 - First Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4
1922 - WEAF in NYC airs first radio commercial (Queensboro Realty-$100 for 10 mins)
1925 - Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1926 - Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
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 for war
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 - Boris III, of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43), dies
1943 - Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
1943 - Mussolini transfered from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1944 - Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and 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 and 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 and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 - Jakob Malik succeeds Zorine as Foreign minister
1955 - Emmett Till, kidnapped and lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
1955 - First NFL preseason sudden death football, Rams beats Giants 23-17
1955 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1957 - Senator 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 umpire called time
1961 - Thomas Connolly, first baseball umpire elected to hall of fame, dies
1962 - Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid
1962 - Tony Sheridan and 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 and 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
1966 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
1967 - Charles Darrow, US inventor of Monopoly, dies
1967 - Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt v Eng
1967 - Boston signs first free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus
1968 - 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
1968 - Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem Natl Conven
1970 - Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970
1971 - Nathan Leopold, US kidnapper/murderer of Bobby Franks (1924), dies
1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1973 - "Monster Mash" goes gold
1973 - "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold
1973 - 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
1973 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1973 - India and Pakistan sign POW accord
1973 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1976 - NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1977 - NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 men and beats Texas Rangers 1-0
1977 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 300 batters for 5th straight year
1977 - NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Oregon, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship
1978 - Bruce Catton, US historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78
1978 - Donald Vesco rode 21'-long Kawasaki motorcycle at 318.598 mph
1978 - Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1979 - IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
1979 - Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1981 - John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan
1981 - Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
1981 - National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
1982 - "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 perfs
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - Greg Luzinski is first player to put 3 HRs onto roof at Comiskey Park
1983 - Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 - Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour
1983 - Pat Bradley wins Columbia Savings Golf Classic
1984 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1986 - Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1986 - Largest wrestling crowd in Canada (69,300) at Toronto Stadium
1986 - Tina Turner's star unveiled in Hollywood
1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1987 - Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
1988 - 40th Emmy Awards: 30-Something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley
1988 - 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988 - 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks
1988 - Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988 - Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open
1988 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
1989 - First regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
1989 - Frank Viola and Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and Dodgers 1-0
1990 - Cub's Ryne Sandberg is first 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
1991 - Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1991 - Red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
1993 - Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
1993 - Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
1993 - Long Beach Calif beats Panama for little league world championship
1993 - Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
1994 - First Japanese gay pride parade
1994 - 22nd du Maurier Golf Classic: Martha Nause
1994 - 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods
1997 - 32nd Ryder Cup: at Sotogrande Spain
1997 - Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
2003 - Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf
2005 - Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing more than 1,836 and causing over $115 billion in damage
2007 - A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base

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