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==Events== * 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna. * 489 – Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy. * 663 – Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang. *1189 – Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan. *1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade. *1524 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. *1542 – Turkish–Portuguese War (1538–57): Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed. *1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States. *1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. *1619 – Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. *1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn. *1648 – Siege of Colchester ended when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks, during the English Civil War. *1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur. *1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus. *1810 – Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet. *1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new ''Tom Thumb'' steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in US railroads. *1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire. *1845 – The first issue of ''Scientific American'' magazine is published. *1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria. *1859 – The Carrington event disrupts electrical telegraph services and causes aurora to shine so brightly that they are seen clearly over the Earth's middle latitudes. *1861 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days. *1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30. *1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll. *1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British. *1898 – Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called "Pepsi-Cola". *1901 – Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country. *1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms. *1913 – Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague. *1914 – World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. * 1914 – World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium. *1916 – World War I: Germany declares war on Romania. * 1916 – World War I: Italy declares war on Germany. *1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House. *1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. *1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression. *1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. *1943 – World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts. *1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated. *1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement. *1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. *1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator. *1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his ''I Have a Dream'' speech * 1963 – Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights. * 1963 – The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US. *1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins. *1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. *1979 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels. *1988 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured. *1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. * 1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. *1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce. *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. * 1998 – Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa. *2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt. *2004 – Software Freedom Day is established and is firstly observed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「August 28」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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