## 28 August Today's Historical Events

Good morning, my all steemiens friends,
Today I am going to share 28 August Today's Historical Events of the whole world.

Blog source: https://www.onthisday.com/today/events.php

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

476 German ruler Flavius Odoacer captures Pavia

476 Orestes, father of Emperor Romulus Augustulus is captured and executed by Odoacer and his followers

489 Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Flavius 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 Belgrade captured by troops of Turkish Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent

1542 Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) - Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and afterward executed.

Historic Discovery
1609 English explorer 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 conquers Fort Elmina, West Africa

Battle of Interest
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.

Historic Discovery
1789 William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus

1830 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!

1837 Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce

1840 Nine Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1849 Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, having been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence

Music Premiere
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, 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, D.C.

1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations

1867 United States occupy Midway Islands in the Pacific

The 1st known photograph of a tornado, taken in 1884 by F.N. Robinson
First Photograph of a Tornado
1884 First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota

1884 Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces

1886 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats R. Livingston Beeckman 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4

1888 8th U.S. Men's National Championship: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor (6-4, 6-1, 6-0)

1893 13th U.S. Men's National Championship: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey (6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4)

1898 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".

1907 United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.

1907 27th U.S. Men's National Championship: William Larned beats Robert LeRoy (6-2, 6-2, 6-4)

1908 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club Mass

1910 Nicholas I of Montenegro again proclaims himself king (first assumed power 1860) after his reign interrupted by Turkish rule

1911 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)

1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace in The Hague

1914 Third day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): violent German/Russian battles

1914 Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed

1914 British General John French evacuate Amiens

1916 Germany declares war on Romania

1916 Italy declares war against Germany

1917 Ten suffragists arrested as they picket the White House

1918 Tris Speaker suspended for the season due to the assault on umpire Tom Connolly

1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa

1921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)

Baseball Record
1921 Babe Ruth starts a streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games

1922 1st Walker Cup: the US beats England 8-4

1922 Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC

1922 WEAF in NYC airs 1st radio commercial (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 University awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy

1938 On Connie Mack Day at Shibe Park, the A's win a doubleheader

1939 Netherland mobilizes
1939 Sammy Fain and Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres

1939 Journalist Care Hollingworth observes the “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and
field guns” Germany had aligned along the Polish border. Three days later, Hitler invades Poland and WWII begins.

1940 French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle

1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 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: Chicago Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)

1942 Gunther Hagg (Sweden) sets world record for 3,000m (8:01.2)

1942 Transport #25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany

1943 Denmark declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers

1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared

1944 US air raid on Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies

1949 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)

1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York

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

1956 17th Venice Film Festival opens. No Golden Lion awarded

1957 US Senator James Thurmond (Rep, SC) 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 the umpire called time

1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)

1962 Dr. Geza De Kaplany tortures his wife with acid to punish her for supposed infidelity

1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle & Bellevue opens

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

1965 1st Subway sandwich shop opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut

1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic

1966 27th Venice Film Festival: "The Battle of Algiers" directed by Gillo Pontecorvo wins Golden Lion

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 Democratic National Convention

1968 MP Gerry Fitt, tables House of Commons motion criticising Royal Ulster Constabulary at Dungannon "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom"

1970 Phillies Larry Bowa steals home for 2nd time in 1970

1970 "I'll Be There" single by The Jackson 5 is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)

1971 The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time.

1972 USSR performs the nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1972 American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich & Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat the Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics

1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould sets a world record 2:23.07 to beat German Kornelia Ender in the 200m individual medley at the Munich Olympics; her first of 3 gold medals at the Games

1972 Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut becomes media darling at the Munich Olympics; wins gold in the teams all-around; follows with 2 gold and a silver

1972 North Korean shooter Ri Ho-jun wins the 50m rifle prone event at the Munich Olympics; his nation's first ever Olympic gold medal

1973 Bobby "Boris" Pickett's song "Monster Mash" goes gold

1973 "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold

1973 6.8 quakes centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527

1973 France performs the nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

1973 India & Pakistan sign POW accord

1973 USSR performs the underground nuclear test

1973 “Let’s Get It On” single released by Marvin Gaye (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)

1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth

1976 NY Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup

1976 USSR performs the 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 & beats Texas Rangers 1-0

1977 NY Cosmos defeat Seattle Sounders, 2-1, at Civic Stadium in Portland Ore, winning their 2nd North American Soccer League championship

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 in Brussels' Great Market

1979 Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die

1980 37th Venice Film Festival: "Atlantic City" directed by Louis Malle and "Gloria" directed by John Cassavetes jointly awarded Golden Lion (first since 1968)

1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)

1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces the high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men

1982 "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 performances

1982 USSR performs the underground nuclear test

1982 The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.

1982 39th Venice Film Festival: "The State of Things" directed by Wim Wenders wins Golden Lion

1983 "Mame" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 41 performances

1983 Greg Luzinski is the 1st player to put 3 HRs onto the roof at Comiskey Park

1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour

1984 USSR performs the 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 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying

1987 2nd Athletics World Championships open at Rome, Italy

1988 40th Emmy Awards: Thirtysomething, The Wonder Years & Richard Kiley win

1988 70 killed in the crash of three Italian air force fighters at an air show at Ramstein, Germany

1988 88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks

1988 Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open

1988 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship

1989 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners

1989 Frank Viola & Mets outduel Orel Hershiser & Dodgers 1-0

1990 Cub's Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively

1990 Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov

1990 F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353

1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die

1992 Test cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo

1993 Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed

1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed

1993 Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship

1993 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president

1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade

1994 Canadian Open Golf (du Maurier Classic), Ottawa Hunt GC: Martha Nause wins by 1 from Michelle Mcgann

1994 94th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson

1995 Northants 7-781 declared defeats Nottinghamshire 527 & 157

1995 Kuwaiti Oil Minister Abdul Mohsen al-Medej announces that his country will increase its oil production capacity to as much as 3.5 million barrels per day by 2005

1996 Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants v Middlesex

1996 53rd Venice Film Festival: "Michael Collins" directed by Neil Jordan wins Golden Lion

1997 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes

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.

2003 An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.

2004 British athlete Kelly Holmes wraps up the 800/1,500m double at the Athens Olympics taking out the 1.5k in 3:57.90

2004 Moroccan superstar athlete Hicham El Guerrouj wraps up the 1,500/5,000m double at the Athens Olympics taking the 5k gold in 13:14.39

2004 A huge upset at the Athens Olympic Stadium in the men's 4×100m relay; Great Britain 38.07 edges the United States 38.08 to take the gold medal

2004 Led by San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Manu Ginóbili Argentina beats Italy 84-69 for the Olympic basketball gold medal in Athens; star-studded US team takes bronze

2004 The diving competition at the Athens Olympics concludes with the Chinese contingent dominant, winning 6 of the 8 gold medals

2004 The US women's basketball team goes through the Athens Olympics undefeated to take out it's 5th Olympic gold medal, beating Australia 74-63 in the final

2004 Carlos Tevez scores the winner as Argentina beats Paraguay 1-0, maintaining an undefeated record to win the men's football gold medal at the Athens Olympics

2011 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Hillsdale CC: Brittany Lincicome wins by 1 from Michelle Wie and Stacy Lewis

2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons

2013 51 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq

2013 70th Venice Film Festival: "Sacro GRA" directed by Gianfranco Rosi wins Golden Lion

2016 Canadian Open Women's Golf, Priddis Green CC: Ariya Jutanugam of Thailand wins by 4 from Kim Sei-young of South Korea

2017 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail

2017 North Korea launches the missile that flies over Japan, the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover

2017 English actor Ed Skrein pulls out of a role in movie “Hellboy” after whitewashing criticism

2017 Investigation into German nurse Niels Högel, a serving life sentence for killing two patients, concludes he probably killed 86 more

2017 Matt Vogel makes his debut as the voice of Kermit the Frog in "Muppet Thought of the Week" video