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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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Feast of Dormition (Julian calendar) refimprove
475Flavius Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee. Orestes: refimprove; Julius Nepos: refimprove section
1565Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States. refimprove section
1640Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England. Tagged with {{no footnotes}}
1849 – Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco, an Italian revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months earlier. refimprove
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. external links
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 sections

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August 28: Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar)

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