August 28
Sunday 28, 2005:
A mandatory evacuation is ordered by New Orleans, Louisiana mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco as Hurricane Katrina moved nearer to Louisiana.
Tuesday 28, 2001:
Dutch prime minister Wim Kok announces that he will not be available for another term as PvdA party leader or prime minister after the 2002 elections.
Friday 28, 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.
Wednesday 28, 1996:
Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
Monday 28, 1995:
A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Sunday 28, 1994:
First Japanese gay pride march.
Saturday 28, 1993:
Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore
Wednesday 28, 1991:
A drunk motorman speeds into the Union Square station on the No. 4 line in New York City. The train derails on the curve, killing six passengers and injuring dozens.
Tuesday 28, 1990:
The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
Sunday 28, 1988:
At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
Thursday 28, 1986:
US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
Friday 28, 1981:
The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS.
Tuesday 28, 1979:
An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
Thursday 28, 1975:
Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
Monday 28, 1972:
During the Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
Saturday 28, 1971:
The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
Wednesday 28, 1968:
Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention
Friday 28, 1964:
The Philadelphia race riot began.
Wednesday 28, 1963:
During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech.
Sunday 28, 1955:
Black Mississippian Emmett Till is murdered, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
Friday 28, 1953:
Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
Monday 28, 1944:
Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
Saturday 28, 1943:
In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
Saturday 28, 1937:
Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
Tuesday 28, 1917:
Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
Monday 28, 1916:
1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.
Friday 28, 1914:
The British fleet beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
Thursday 28, 1913:
Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
Sunday 28, 1898:
Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
Thursday 28, 1884:
First known photograph of a tornado is made.
Thursday 28, 1879:
Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
Wednesday 28, 1867:
The United States occupies Midway Island.
Thursday 28, 1862:
Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas
Wednesday 28, 1850:
Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany.
Tuesday 28, 1849:
After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
Thursday 28, 1845:
Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue
Saturday 28, 1830:
The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
Wednesday 28, 1619:
Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Friday 28, 1609:
Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
Saturday 28, 1565:
St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
Sunday 28, 1521:
The Turks occupy Belgrade
Sunday 28, 489:
Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
Wednesday 28, 475:
The Pannonian general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints Romulus Augustus in his place.
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