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2008-08-28
Births, Deaths and Events in History - 2008-08-20
Births
1025-08-28 - Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068)
1592-08-28 - George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1628)
1612-08-28 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (d. 1653)
1714-08-28 - Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1774)
1749-08-28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (d. 1832)
1774-08-28 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (d. 1821)
1801-08-28 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
1814-08-28 - Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
1840-08-28 - Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant
1849-08-28 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (d. 1895)
1853-08-28 - Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (d. 1939)
1867-08-28 - Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (d. 1948)
1878-08-28 - George Whipple, American scientist, and Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1894-08-28 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (d. 1981)
1894-08-28 - Elisha Scott, footballer (d. 1959)
1898-08-28 - Charlie Grimm, baseball player (d. 1983)
1899-08-28 - Charles Boyer, French actor (d. 1978)
1903-08-28 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
1904-08-28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1906-08-28 - John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
1908-08-28 - Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (d. 1996)
1910-08-28 - Tjalling Koopmans, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1911-08-28 - Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
1913-08-28 - Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (d. 1995)
1913-08-28 - Richard Tucker, American tenor (d. 1975)
1915-08-28 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator
1916-08-28 - Jack Vance, American author
1917-08-28 - Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (d. 1994)
1919-08-28 - Godfrey Hounsfield, Nobel Laureate (d. 2004)
1920-08-28 - Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (d. 2006)
1924-08-28 - Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
1924-08-28 - Peggy Ryan, American actress (d. 2004)
1925-08-28 - Donald O'Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (d. 2003)
1928-08-28 - F. William Free, American advertising executive. (d. 2003)
1929-08-28 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (d. 1973)
1930-08-28 - Ben Gazzara, American actor
1931-08-28 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
1932-08-28 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
1936-08-28 - Don Denkinger, former Major League Baseball umpire
1938-08-28 - Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
1938-08-28 - Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist
1940-08-28 - Roger Pingeon, French cylist
1941-08-28 - Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
1942-08-28 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1995)
1943-08-28 - David Soul, American actor
1943-08-28 - Lou Piniella, baseball manager
1944-08-28 - Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1944-08-28 - Melvin Dummar, claimed Howard Hughes heir
1947-08-28 - Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress
1948-08-28 - Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago)
1952-08-28 - Rita Dove, former U.S. poet laureate
1952-08-28 - Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1957-08-28 - Daniel Stern, American actor
1957-08-28 - Rick Rossovich, American actor
1958-08-28 - Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1960-08-28 - Emma Samms, English actress
1961-08-28 - Kim Appleby, British singer
1965-08-28 - Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress
1965-08-28 - Shania Twain, Canadian singer
1966-08-28 - René Higuita, Colombian footballer
1968-08-28 - Billy Boyd, Scottish actor
1969-08-28 - Jason Priestley, Canadian actor
1969-08-28 - Jack Black, American actor
1969-08-28 - Mary McCartney, English photographer
1971-08-28 - Todd Eldredge, American figure skater
1971-08-28 - Janet Evans, American swimmer
1974-08-28 - Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
1974-08-28 - Carsten Jancker, German footballer
1975-08-28 - Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer
1975-08-28 - DJ Assault, American musician
1978-08-28 - Jess Margera, American drummer
1978-08-28 - Shaniqua, American wrestling valet
1979-08-28 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
1979-08-28 - Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979-08-28 - Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1979-08-28 - David Graham, Big Brother Australia 2006 housemate
1980-08-28 - T.J. Beam, American baseball player
1981-08-28 - Martin Erat, Czech hockey player
1982-08-28 - LeAnn Rimes, American singer
1985-08-28 - Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor
1986-08-28 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli military officer
1991-08-28 - Kyle Massey, American actor
1999-08-28 - Prince Nikolai of Denmark
Bizarre
2006-08-28 - Race Your Mouse Day
2007-08-28 - Race Your Mouse Day
Deaths
1341-08-28 - King Leo V of Armenia (b. 1309)
1481-08-28 - King Afonso V of Portugal (b. 1432)
1645-08-28 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
1654-08-28 - Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (b. 1583)
1678-08-28 - John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
1757-08-28 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
1784-08-28 - Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
1785-08-28 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (b. 1714)
1793-08-28 - Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
1805-08-28 - Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
1818-08-28 - Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, founder of Chicago
1820-08-28 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
1839-08-28 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
1900-08-28 - Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
1903-08-28 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
1919-08-28 - Louis Botha, Boer leader (b. 1862)
1933-08-28 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (b. 1863)
1943-08-28 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
1955-08-28 - Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (b. 1941)
1959-08-28 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
1965-08-28 - Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909)
1975-08-28 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
1981-08-28 - Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (b. 1900)
1985-08-28 - Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896
1987-08-28 - John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
1990-08-28 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
1990-08-28 - Larry Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1993-08-28 - William Stafford, American writer (b. 1914)
1995-08-28 - Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)
1995-08-28 - Michael Ende, German writer (b. 1929)
2005-08-28 - Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
2005-08-28 - George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1911)
2006-08-28 - Jesse Pintado, Mexican-born American musician (Terrorizer, Napalm Death) (b. 1969)
2006-08-28 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
Declared
2007-08-28 - Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Events
1965-08-28 - Bob Dylan is booed off the stage at Forest Hills Stadium in New York for playing an electric guitar.
1968-08-28 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1971-08-28 - The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.
1972-08-28 - During the Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
1974-08-28 - Geir Hallgrímsson became Prime Minister of Iceland
1979-08-28 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
1981-08-28 - 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.
1986-08-28 - Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
1986-08-28 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
1988-08-28 - Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 69 are killed.
1990-08-28 - Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990-08-28 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
1991-08-28 - 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.
1993-08-28 - A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
1993-08-28 - 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
1994-08-28 - First Japanese gay pride march.
1995-08-28 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
1996-08-28 - Britain's Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
1998-08-28 - 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.
2005-08-28 - A mandatory evacuation is ordered by New Orleans, Louisiana mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco as Hurricane Katrina moves nearer to Louisiana.
2006-08-28 - Polygamist Warren Jeffs is captured in Clark County, Nevada after being put on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted list in May 2006.
1189-08-28 - The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1521-08-28 - The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1542-08-28 - Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama captured and afterwards executed.
1565-08-28 - St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1609-08-28 - Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1619-08-28 - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1830-08-28 - The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
1845-08-28 - Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue.
1849-08-28 - After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
1850-08-28 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar, Germany.
1862-08-28 - Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas.
1867-08-28 - The United States occupies Midway Island.
1879-08-28 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1884-08-28 - First known photograph of a tornado is made.
1898-08-28 - Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".
1907-08-28 - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1913-08-28 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1914-08-28 - The British fleet beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1916-08-28 - Germany declares war on Romania.
1916-08-28 - Italy declares war on Germany.
1917-08-28 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
1918-08-28 - PFC Spartak Varna founded.
1924-08-28 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1937-08-28 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1943-08-28 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1944-08-28 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1953-08-28 - Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955-08-28 - Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, allegedly for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
1961-08-28 - Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
1963-08-28 - 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.
1964-08-28 - The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time.
1964-08-28 - The Philadelphia race riot begins.
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