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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 475 – Flavius Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee. | refimprove |
| 1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England. | Tagged with {{nofootnotes}} |
| 1845 – The first issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American was published, currently the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1867 – Captain William Reynolds of the USS Lackawanna formally took possession of Midway Atoll for the United States. | refimprove |
| 1963 – During a large political rally in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, describing his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals. | March on Washington in POTD for 2011 |
| 1988 – During an airshow 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 sections |
Eligible
- 1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Franz Liszt in Weimar, present-day Germany.
- 1901 – Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines, became the first American private school to be founded in the country.
- 1955 – African American teenager Emmett Till was murdered near Money, Mississippi, for flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
August 28: Feast of Dormition/Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar)
- 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
- 1849 – Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco (flag pictured), an Italian revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months earlier.
- 1914 – In the first naval battle of World War I, British ships defeated the German fleet in the Heligoland Bight area of the North Sea.
- 1924 – An unsuccessful insurrection against the Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began.
- 1957 – U.S. Senator 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 Senator.