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On this day August 28

1998


Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

1998


Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

1993


The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.

1990


An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.

1990


Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.

1988


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.

1968


Rioting takes place in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, triggering a brutal police crackdown.

1964


The Philadelphia race riot begins.

1963


March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech

1957


U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

1955


Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent Civil Rights Movement.

1944


World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

1943


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.

1937


Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

1931


France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.

1924


The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

1917


Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.

1916


World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.

1916


World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.

1914


World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.

1914


World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

1913


Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.

1909


A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.

1901


Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.

1898


Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".

1879


Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

1867


The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.

1862


American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.

1861


American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.

1859


The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.

1849


After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.

1845


The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.

1833


The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire.

1830


The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroads.

1810


Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.

1789


William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.

1709


Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.

1648


The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the Second English Civil War.

1640


Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.

1619


Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.

1609


Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.

1565


Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.

1542


Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-57): Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.

1524


The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.

1521


The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.

1189


Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.

663


Silla-Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.

632


Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad died, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.

489


Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.

475


The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.

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