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

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar);	refimprove section
Feast of Dormition (Julian calendar)	refimprove section
475 – Flavius Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.	Orestes: refimprove; Julius Nepos: refimprove section
1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.	refimprove sections
1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.	disputed, refimprove section
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.	unreferenced section
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.	refimprove
1937 – Toyota Motors, now the world's largest automobile manufacturer, was spun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company.	refimprove section
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 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

• 1789 – With the first use of his new 1.2 m (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, which was later named Enceladus.
• 1830 – Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive, engaged in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.
• 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, received royal assent.
• 1859 – A massive solar storm began, causing a coronal mass ejection to strike the Earth's magnetosphere that generated aurorae that were visible in the middle latitudes.
• 1901 – Silliman University in Dumaguete, Negros Oriental, Philippines, became the first American private school to be founded in the country.
• 1909 – A military coup d'etat against the government of Dimitrios Rallis began in the Goudi neighbourhood of Athens, Greece.
• 1914 – In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships ambushed a German naval patrol in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea.
• 1955 – African-American teenager Emmett Till was murdered near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
• 1963 – During a large political rally in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, describing his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals.
• 1993 – 243 Ida became the first asteroid found to have a moon when it was visited by NASA's Galileo probe.
• Born/died this day: 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) · Shania Twain (b. 1965)

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 giving his "I Have a Dream" speech

• 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.
• 1963 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech (pictured), envisioning a future in which blacks and whites would coexist 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".

He Gui (d. 919) · Johannes Banfi Hunyades (d. 1646) · Katharine Abraham (b. 1954)

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