Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 28

This is a list of selected August 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Emperor Ferdinand II
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  William Reynolds
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  Flag of the Republic of San Marco
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  Cover of Scientific American
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  Cover of Scientific American
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  2015 production of Lohengrin
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  Ida and its moon Dactyl

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar);	refimprove section
Feast of Dormition (Julian calendar)	refimprove section
475 – Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.	Orestes: refimprove
1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.	refimprove sections
1845 – The first issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American, currently the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States, was published.	unreferenced section
1849 – Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco, an Italian revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months earlier.	refimprove
1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany.	refimprove
1861 – American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extended its blockage strategy by capturing two Confederate forts on North Carolina's Outer Banks.	unreferenced section
1867 – Captain William Reynolds of the USS Lackawanna formally took possession of Midway Atoll for the United States.	refimprove section
1924 – An unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began.	date not cited
1937 – Toyota Motors, now the world's largest automobile manufacturer, was spun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company.	no tag, but lots of paragraphs without citations
1957 – Strom Thurmond began a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes, the longest one ever by a single U.S. Senator.	refimprove section
1963 – Two young women were murdered in New York City; the mistreatment of the suspect by the police and his forced confession led New York to abolish its death penalty.	refimprove section
1963 – The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, at the time the world's longest floating bridge, opened across Lake Washington in Washington, U.S.	lots of citations needed (5) and a refimprove section
1988 – During an air show at the Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany, three aircraft of the Italian Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collided and fell into the crowd, killing all three pilots and 67 spectators.	unreferenced section
Sheridan Le Fanu |b|1814	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 1542 – Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts: During the Battle of Wofla, the Portuguese commander Cristóvão da Gama was captured by the Adal Sultanate and executed the next day.
• 1619 – Ferdinand II, the King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected as Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
• 1830 – Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive, engaged in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.
• 1914 – In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships ambushed a German naval patrol in the Heligoland Bight.
• 1950 – In tennis, Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
• 1955 – African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
• 1993 – The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
• 2003 – A pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennyslvania, was killed during a complex bank robbery when a bomb that was locked around his neck exploded.
• Born/died this day: | He Gui |d|919|Augustine of Hippo |d|430| Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine |d|1793| Jean Baptiste Point du Sable |d|1818| Edward Burne-Jones |b|1833| Lindsay Hassett |b|1913| Jack Kirby |b|1917| Katharine Abraham |b|1954| Shania Twain |b|1965| Shulamith Firestone |d|2012

Notes

• Second Battle of Bull Run appears on August 30, so 1861 battle should not appear in the same year

August 28

Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech

• 1789 – With the first use of his new 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus.
• 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, received royal assent.
• 1901 – Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines, was founded as the first American educational institution in Asia.
• 1963 – American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured) delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, envisioning a future in which blacks and whites coexisted harmoniously as equals.
• 1973 – Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; during the incident the hostages had bonded with their captors, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.

• Johannes Banfi Hunyades (d. 1646)
• Vittorio Sella (b. 1859)
• Béla Guttmann (d. 1981)

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