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• Wednesday, August 28, 475 - The German general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints Romulus Augustus in his place.
• Sunday, August 28, 489 - Theoderic, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo , forcing his way into Italy.
• Sunday, August 21, 1521 - The Turks occupy Belgrade
• Saturday, August 28, 1565Events March 1 the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded April 27 Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. August 28 St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European - St. Augustine, FloridaAugustine is a city located in St. Johns County, Florida, in the region known as Florida's First Coast. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 11,592. It is the county seat of St. Johns County 6. History U. flag, the Confederate flag, t, established. It is the oldest surviving EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sean settlement in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in.
• Friday, August 28, 1609Events April 4 King of Spain signs an edit of expulsion of all moriscos from Spain April 9 Spain recognizes Dutch independence May 23 Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia. July 6 Bohemia is granted freedom of religion. August 25 Galileo - Henry HudsonHenry Hudson (place and date of birth are unknown, but September 12, 1570 seems likely; presumed to have died in 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator. In 1607, Hudson set sail on the Hopewell to find a northeast passage to Asia through the Arct discovers Delaware BayDelaware Bay is a large esturarial inlet of the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Delaware River along the coast of the United States. It is bordered by the state of New Jersey on the north, and the state of Delaware in the south. The bay opens into the.
• Wednesday, August 28, 1619Events May 13 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after having been accused of treason. July 30 In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. - Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
• 1830 - The Tom Thumb starts the first railway service in the United States.
• 1833 - Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire.
• 1845 - Scientific American magazine publishes first issue
• 1849 - After a siege of over one month, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria.
• 1850 - Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres.
• 1862 - Second Battle of Bull Run- also known as the battle of Second Manassas
• 1867 - The United States occupies Midway Island.
• 1879 - Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
• 1884 - First known photograph of a tornado is made.
• 1913 - Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
• 1914 - The British fleet beats the German fleet in the so-called Battle of Heligoland Bight (actually a comparatively minor engagement).
• 1916 - Germany declares war on Romania.
• 1916 - Italy declares war on Germany.
• 1917 - Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House.
• 1937 - Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
• 1943 - In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
• 1944 - Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
• 1955 - Black Mississippi boy Emmett Till is murdered for whistling to a white woman and calling her baby.
• 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.
• 1968 - Riots in Chicago, Illinois during the Democratic National Convention
• 1972 - During the Olympic Games of Munich, Mark Spitz gets his first of seven gold medals in swimming events.
• 1975 - Missionary Armand Doll is imprisoned in Mozambique by Marxist extremists.
• 1979 - An IRA bomb explodes on the Great Market in Brussels.
• 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.
• 1986 - Stage of siege declared in Bolivia.
• 1986 - US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
• 1988 - At an air show in Ramstein, West Germany, three stunt fighters collide; 69 people die.
• 1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait to be a province of Iraq.
• 1990 - The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hit in Plainfield, Illinois and Joliet, Illinois killing 28 people.
• 1993 - A dam breaks in Qinghai, China. 223 die.
• 1993 - 76 die in an airplane crash in Tajikistan.
• 1993 - Ong Teng Cheong elected president of Singapore
• 1994 - First gay pride march in Japan.
• 1995 - A mortar shell kills 38 people in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The NATO action against Bosnian Serbs was a reaction to this incident.
• 1996 - Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales are divorced.
• 1998 - Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Quran and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill was defeated in the Senate.
• 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.

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