476 German ruler Flavius Odoacer captures Pavia
476 Orestes, father of Emperor Romulus Augustulus is captured and executed by Odoacer and his followers
489 – Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Germanic King of Italy 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.
1207 King John of England grants small town of Liverpool a charter (right to elect a mayor and aldermen)
1521 – The Ottoman Turks of Turkish Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent occupy Belgrade.
1524 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1542 – Turkish–Portuguese War (1538–1557): 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: English sea explorer Henry Hudson and his ship, the Half Moon, reached present-day Delaware Bay.
1619 – Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1632 Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1637 WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquers Fort Elmina, West Africa
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.
1655 New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1709 – Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1777 – During the American Revolutionary War the Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
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 the British Empire.
1837 – Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins begin manufacturing Worcester Sauce, one of the best loved and versatile bottled English sauces,
1840 Nine Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice under Daniele Manin, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky.
1850 Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar, Germany
1859 – The Carrington event, a geomagnetic storm, 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. 1st combined operation of Union Army and Navy results in Union domination of strategically important North Carolina Sounds.
1861 – American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days. 1st combined operation of Union Army and Navy results in Union domination of strategically important North Carolina Sounds.
1862: The Second Battle of Bull Run (also known as Second Manassas) began in Prince William County, Va., during the Civil War (the result was a Confederate victory).
1862 Battle of Groveton, Virginia (Manassas Plains) [->AUG 19]
1862 Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
1862 Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C.
1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1884 First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
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.
1907 United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
1910 Nicholas I of Montenegro again proclaims himself king (first assumed power 1860) after his reign interrupted by Turkish rule
1911 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record)
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, nearly 800 die, and over 200 wounded
1914 World War I: British General John French orders civilian evacuation of Amiens, France as German forces push in from Belgium
1914 – World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
1914 World War I: Third day of Battle of Tannenberg, near Allenstein, East Prussia (present-day Poland); violent German vs. Russian battles
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.
1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa
1921 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels & Paris)
1922 Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical "The Gingham Girl" premieres in NYC
1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1938 Northwestern University awards honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy
1939 Gen Bernard Montgomery ("Monty") becomes commander of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division
1939 Journalist Care Hollingworth observes the “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns” Germany had aligned along the Polish border. Three days later, Hitler invades Poland and WWII begins.
1939 Netherland mobilizes
1939 Sammy Fain and Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres in NYC
1940 French colonies Cameroon/Congo-Brazzaville support Gen De Gaulle
1941 Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves
1942 Transport #25 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 Benito Mussolini transferred from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1943 – World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts.
1944 – World War II: Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared. Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1944 US air raid on Ambon Island, Dutch East Indies
1946 Film noir "The Killers" premieres, directed by Robert Siodmak, starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Chicago black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1957 – U.S. Senator James 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.
1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
1962 Dr Geza De Kaplany tortures his wife with acid to punish her for supposed infidelity
1962 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers (The Beatles) record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)" in Hamburg, Germany
1963: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: More than 200,000 people participated in a peaceful civil rights rally in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial. commentary by Roger Simon
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 Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens connecting Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, US.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – The first Subway sandwich shop opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1965 Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guitar In concert at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York City
1968 Northern Irish MP Gerry Fitt tables a House of Commons motion criticising the Royal Ulster Constabulary at Dungannon, "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom"
1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels.
1979 Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1980 First use of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to scan the human body at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scotland
1949 Riot prevents Paul Robeson from singing near Peekskill, New York
1952 German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1952 Yakov Malik succeeds Valerian Zorin as Soviet Foreign minister
1953 "Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
1955 – Chicago black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
1957 – U.S. Senator James 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.
1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
1962 Dr Geza De Kaplany tortures his wife with acid to punish her for supposed infidelity
1962 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers (The Beatles) record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)" in Hamburg, Germany
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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 Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens connecting Seattle and Bellevue, Washington, US.
1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 – The first Subway sandwich shop opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
1965 Bob Dylan booed for playing electric guitar In concert at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York City
1968 Northern Irish MP Gerry Fitt tables a House of Commons motion criticising the Royal Ulster Constabulary at Dungannon, "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom"
1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
1970 "I'll Be There" single by The Jackson 5 is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)
1971 The US dollar is allowed to float against the Japanese yen for the first time.
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1973 "Smoke on the Water" single by British rock band Deep Purple goes gold
1973 6.8 quake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527
1973 Bobby "Boris" Pickett's song "Monster Mash" goes gold
1973 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1973 India & Pakistan sign POW accord
1973 Tamla/Motown Records releases "Let's Get It On", the 13th studio album by Marvin Gaye
1973 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 Ja'afar Sharif-Emami appointed premier of Iran
1979 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels.
1979 Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
1980 First use of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to scan the human body at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scotland
1981 John Hinckley pleads innocent to attempt to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan
1981 National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
1982 "Sugar Babies" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 performances
1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces his resignation
1983 Revival of Jerry Herman' musical "Mame", starring Angela Lansbury closes at the George Gershwin Theater, NYC, after 41 performances
1984 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1986 American rock singer Tina Turner's star unveiled at Hollywood's Walk of Fame; Hollywood, California
1986 Bolivia president Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1986 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1988 – Ramstein airshow 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 and injuring 353.
1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1993 Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes in Tadzjikistan, 76 killed
1993 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong elected president
1995 Kuwaiti Oil Minister Abdul Mohsen al-Medej announces that his country will increase its oil production capacity to as much as 3.5 million barrels per day by 2005
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.
2012 Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate
2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons
2017 English actor Ed Skrein pulls out of role in movie “Hellboy” after whitewashing criticism
2017 Investigation into German nurse Niels Högel, a serving life sentence for killing two patients, concludes he probably killed 86 more
2017 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail
2017 Matt Vogel makes his debut as the voice of Kermit the Frog in "Muppet Thought of the Week" video
2017 North Korea launches missile that flies over Japan, the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover
2018 Puerto Rico raises official death toll of 2017 Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975
2019 British PM Boris Johnson prorogues parliament, suspending it for 5 weeks to limit opposition to a no deal Brexit, prompting a furious backlash
2019 Climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage
2019 Discovery of 3.8-million-year-old skull of early human ancestor Australopithecus anamensis, found by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, at Miro Dora, Ethiopia, upends previous evolutionary theory published in journal "Nature"
2019 New Italian coalition government formed of anti-establishment Five Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party ousting Matteo Salvini
2022 Pakistan appeals for international aid as the death toll from monsoon rain and floods rises to over 1,000 people
2019 Discovery of 3.8-million-year-old skull of early human ancestor Australopithecus anamensis, found by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, at Miro Dora, Ethiopia, upends previous evolutionary theory published in journal "Nature"
2019 New Italian coalition government formed of anti-establishment Five Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party ousting Matteo Salvini
2019 US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ends her campaign for president
2020 Japanese tech company SkyDrive says it has completed the first manned test flight of a flying car
2022 Pakistan appeals for international aid as the death toll from monsoon rain and floods rises to over 1,000 people
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Austin (Augustine), Bishop of Hippo, Confessor, Doctor of the Church Double
Commemoration of St. Hermes, Martyr
Commemoration of St. Hermes, Martyr
Eastern Orthodox
August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Righteous Hezekiah, King of Judah (696 B.C.)
Righteous Anna the Prophetess, daughter of Phanuel (1st century)
Holy 33 Martyrs of Heraclea, by fire
Martyrs Irene and Sophia, by the sword
Martyrs Diomedes and Laurence, shot with arrows after being tied to a tree
Hieromartyr Damon
Venerable Moses the Black, of Scetis (c. 375)
Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475)
Saint Hermes and Companions, martyrs in Rome under the judge Aurelian (c. 120)
Saint Pelagius of Constance, a child-martyr put to death in Pannonia
during the persecution of Roman Emperor Numerian (c. 283)
Saint Julian of Auvergne (3rd century)
Saints Fortunatus, Gaius and Anthes, martyrs near Salerno in Italy under Diocletian (303)
Blessed Augustine of Hippo, Bishop of Hippo (430)
Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Saintes (c. 450)
Saint Vivianus, Bishop of Saintes and Confessor (c. 460)
Saint Facundinus, Bishop of Taino in Umbria (c. 620)
Saint Adelindis, founder of Buchau Abbey (c. 930)
Saint Gorman, a monk at Reichenau in Germany who became
Bishop of Schleswig in Denmark (965)
Saint Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia (1122)
Saint Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius) of the Kiev Caves,
Prince of Ostrog in Volhynia (1483)
Saint Sabbas, founder and Abbot of Krypetsk Monastery (Pskov) (1495)
New Hieromartyrs of Zilantov Monastery in Kazan (1918):
Archimandrite Sergius (Zaitsev);
Hieromanoks Laurence (Nikitin) and Seraphim (Kuzmin);
Hierodeacon Theodosius (Alexandrov);
New Monk-martyrs Leontius (Kariagin) and Stephen;
Novices George (Timofeev), Hilarion (Pravdin),
John (Sretensky), and Sergius (Galin).
New Hieromartyr Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna, Metropolitan of Smyrna (1922)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Georgievsky, Priest (1931)
New Hieromartyr Basil Sokolsky, Priest (1937)
Translation of the relics of Saint Rumwold of Buckingham, infant saint (662)
Uncovering of the relics (1659) of St. Job of Pochaev,
Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev (1651)
Synaxis of the Saints of the Kiev Caves Lavra, whose relics
repose in the Far Caves of St. Theodosius
Repose of Elder Philaret of Novo-Spassky Monastery (1842)
Righteous Hezekiah, King of Judah (696 B.C.)
Righteous Anna the Prophetess, daughter of Phanuel (1st century)
Holy 33 Martyrs of Heraclea, by fire
Martyrs Irene and Sophia, by the sword
Martyrs Diomedes and Laurence, shot with arrows after being tied to a tree
Hieromartyr Damon
Venerable Moses the Black, of Scetis (c. 375)
Martyr Queen Shushanik (Susanna) of Georgia (475)
Saint Hermes and Companions, martyrs in Rome under the judge Aurelian (c. 120)
Saint Pelagius of Constance, a child-martyr put to death in Pannonia
during the persecution of Roman Emperor Numerian (c. 283)
Saint Julian of Auvergne (3rd century)
Saints Fortunatus, Gaius and Anthes, martyrs near Salerno in Italy under Diocletian (303)
Blessed Augustine of Hippo, Bishop of Hippo (430)
Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Saintes (c. 450)
Saint Vivianus, Bishop of Saintes and Confessor (c. 460)
Saint Facundinus, Bishop of Taino in Umbria (c. 620)
Saint Adelindis, founder of Buchau Abbey (c. 930)
Saint Gorman, a monk at Reichenau in Germany who became
Bishop of Schleswig in Denmark (965)
Saint Amphilochius of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Vladimir, Volhynia (1122)
Saint Theodore (in monasticism Theodosius) of the Kiev Caves,
Prince of Ostrog in Volhynia (1483)
Saint Sabbas, founder and Abbot of Krypetsk Monastery (Pskov) (1495)
New Hieromartyrs of Zilantov Monastery in Kazan (1918):
Archimandrite Sergius (Zaitsev);
Hieromanoks Laurence (Nikitin) and Seraphim (Kuzmin);
Hierodeacon Theodosius (Alexandrov);
New Monk-martyrs Leontius (Kariagin) and Stephen;
Novices George (Timofeev), Hilarion (Pravdin),
John (Sretensky), and Sergius (Galin).
New Hieromartyr Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna, Metropolitan of Smyrna (1922)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Georgievsky, Priest (1931)
New Hieromartyr Basil Sokolsky, Priest (1937)
Translation of the relics of Saint Rumwold of Buckingham, infant saint (662)
Uncovering of the relics (1659) of St. Job of Pochaev,
Abbot and Wonderworker of Pochaev (1651)
Synaxis of the Saints of the Kiev Caves Lavra, whose relics
repose in the Far Caves of St. Theodosius
Repose of Elder Philaret of Novo-Spassky Monastery (1842)
Coptic Orthodox
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