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| August 28th, 2008 (August 28 2008) | Event | Senator Barack Obama, the first major African American to be nominated for president by a major political party, plans on accepting the Democratic Party s nomination in Denver. | Barack Obama Quotes |
| August 28th, 2007 (August 28 2007) | Death | Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines (born in 1926) | |
| August 28th, 2007 (August 28 2007) | Death | Hilly Kristal, American Founder of CBGB/Punk rock legend (born in 1932) | |
| August 28th, 2007 (August 28 2007) | Death | Paul B. MacCready, Jr., American aeronautical engineer (born in 1925) | Ron Paul Quotes |
| August 28th, 2007 (August 28 2007) | Death | Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (born in 1984) | |
| August 28th, 2007 (August 28 2007) | Death | Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (born in 1935) | |
| August 28th, 2007 (August 28 2007) | Death | Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (born in 1929) | |
| August 28th, 2007 (August 28 2007) | Death | Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (born in 1913) | |
| August 28th, 2006 (August 28 2006) | Death | Benoit Sauvageau, French Canadian politician (born in 1963) | |
| August 28th, 2006 (August 28 2006) | Death | Melvin Schwartz, American physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1932) | |
| August 28th, 2005 (August 28 2005) | Death | Jacques Dufilho, French actor (born in 1914) | |
| August 28th, 2005 (August 28 2005) | Death | Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (born in 1910) | |
| August 28th, 2005 (August 28 2005) | Death | George Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (born in 1911) | |
| August 28th, 2003 (August 28 2003) | Death | Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (born in 1956) | |
| August 28th, 1999 (August 28 1999) | Birth | Prince Nikolai of Denmark | |
| August 28th, 1998 (August 28 1998) | Event | 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. | |
| August 28th, 1996 (August 28 1996) | Event | Britons Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced. | Princess of Wales Diana Quotes |
| August 28th, 1995 (August 28 1995) | Death | Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (born in 1906) | |
| August 28th, 1993 (August 28 1993) | Death | William Stafford, American writer (born in 1914) | |
| August 28th, 1991 (August 28 1991) | Event | Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union. | |
| August 28th, 1991 (August 28 1991) | Event | Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. | |
| August 28th, 1991 (August 28 1991) | Birth | Kyle Massey, American actor | |
| August 28th, 1991 (August 28 1991) | Birth | Sarah Jane Santos, Filipino singer | |
| August 28th, 1990 (August 28 1990) | Event | Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. | |
| August 28th, 1990 (August 28 1990) | Event | The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people. | |
| August 28th, 1990 (August 28 1990) | Birth | Bojan Krkic, Serbian-Spanish footballer | |
| August 28th, 1990 (August 28 1990) | Death | Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (born in 1913) | |
| August 28th, 1988 (August 28 1988) | Event | Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowdied in 75 are killed, 346 seriously injured. | |
| August 28th, 1988 (August 28 1988) | Birth | Ray Jones, English footballer (died in 2007) | |
| August 28th, 1988 (August 28 1988) | Death | Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (born in 1918) | |
| August 28th, 1987 (August 28 1987) | Death | John Huston, American movie director (born in 1906) | |
| August 28th, 1986 (August 28 1986) | Event | US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union. | |
| August 28th, 1986 (August 28 1986) | Birth | Gilad Shalit, Israeli corporal | |
| August 28th, 1985 (August 28 1985) | Birth | Ralph Woolfolk IV, American actor | |
| August 28th, 1985 (August 28 1985) | Death | Ruth Gordon, American actress (born in 1896) | |
| August 28th, 1983 (August 28 1983) | Birth | Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer | |
| August 28th, 1983 (August 28 1983) | Birth | Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer (RBD) | |
| August 28th, 1982 (August 28 1982) | Event | The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco. | |
| August 28th, 1982 (August 28 1982) | Birth | Anderson Silva de Franca, Brazilian footballer | |
| August 28th, 1982 (August 28 1982) | Birth | LeAnn Rimes, American singer | |
| August 28th, 1982 (August 28 1982) | Birth | Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer | |
| August 28th, 1982 (August 28 1982) | Birth | Thiago Motta, Brazilian footballer | |
| August 28th, 1981 (August 28 1981) | Event | The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi s sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune disorder, which will be called AIDS. | Tom Ze Quotes |
| August 28th, 1981 (August 28 1981) | Birth | Martin Erat, Czech hockey player | |
| August 28th, 1981 (August 28 1981) | Birth | Vaggelis Moras, Greek footballer | |
| August 28th, 1981 (August 28 1981) | Birth | Agata Wrobel, Polish weightlifter, | |
| August 28th, 1981 (August 28 1981) | Birth | Raphael Matos, Brazilian racing driver | |
| August 28th, 1981 (August 28 1981) | Death | Bela Guttman, Hungarian footballer (born in 1900) | |
| August 28th, 1980 (August 28 1980) | Birth | T.J. Beam, American baseball player | |
| August 28th, 1979 (August 28 1979) | Event | An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels. | |
| August 28th, 1979 (August 28 1979) | Birth | Robert Hoyzer, German football referee | |
| August 28th, 1979 (August 28 1979) | Birth | Shaila Durcal, Spanish singer | |
| August 28th, 1979 (August 28 1979) | Birth | Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer | |
| August 28th, 1979 (August 28 1979) | Birth | Markus Proll, German footballer | |
| August 28th, 1979 (August 28 1979) | Birth | Ruth Riley, American basketball player | |
| August 28th, 1978 (August 28 1978) | Birth | Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY) | |
| August 28th, 1978 (August 28 1978) | Birth | Shaniqua, American wrestling valet | |
| August 28th, 1978 (August 28 1978) | Death | Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (born in 1927) | |
| August 28th, 1976 (August 28 1976) | Death | Anissa Jones, American actress (born in 1958) | |
| August 28th, 1975 (August 28 1975) | Birth | Jamie Cureton, English footballer | |
| August 28th, 1975 (August 28 1975) | Birth | Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer | |
| August 28th, 1975 (August 28 1975) | Death | Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (born in 1907) | |
| August 28th, 1974 (August 28 1974) | Birth | Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer | |
| August 28th, 1974 (August 28 1974) | Birth | Carsten Jancker, German footballer | |
| August 28th, 1974 (August 28 1974) | Birth | Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer | |
| August 28th, 1973 (August 28 1973) | Birth | Matthew John Armstrong, American actor | John Armstrong Quotes |
| August 28th, 1973 (August 28 1973) | Birth | DJ Assault, American musician | |
| August 28th, 1972 (August 28 1972) | Birth | Jay Witasick, American baseball player | |
| August 28th, 1971 (August 28 1971) | Event | The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time. | |
| August 28th, 1971 (August 28 1971) | Birth | Todd Eldredge, American figure skater | |
| August 28th, 1971 (August 28 1971) | Birth | Janet Evans, American swimmer | Evans Quotes |
| August 28th, 1971 (August 28 1971) | Birth | Raul Marquez, Mexican-born American boxer | |
| August 28th, 1971 (August 28 1971) | Birth | Shane Andrews, American baseball player | |
| August 28th, 1970 (August 28 1970) | Birth | Sherrie Austin, Australian actress/singer | |
| August 28th, 1970 (August 28 1970) | Birth | Rick Recht, Jewish singer | |
| August 28th, 1969 (August 28 1969) | Birth | Jason Priestley, Canadian-born actor | |
| August 28th, 1969 (August 28 1969) | Birth | Jack Black, American actor | |
| August 28th, 1969 (August 28 1969) | Birth | Mary McCartney, English photographer | |
| August 28th, 1969 (August 28 1969) | Birth | Pierre Turgeon, French Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 28th, 1968 (August 28 1968) | Event | Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. | |
| August 28th, 1968 (August 28 1968) | Birth | Billy Boyd, Scottish actor | |
| August 28th, 1967 (August 28 1967) | Birth | Frederick Kesner, Philippine-born Australian poet | |
| August 28th, 1966 (August 28 1966) | Birth | Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician | |
| August 28th, 1965 (August 28 1965) | Birth | Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress | |
| August 28th, 1965 (August 28 1965) | Birth | Shania Twain, Canadian singer | |
| August 28th, 1965 (August 28 1965) | Death | Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (born in 1909) | |
| August 28th, 1964 (August 28 1964) | Event | The Philadelphia race riot begins. | |
| August 28th, 1963 (August 28 1963) | Event | During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream speech. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| August 28th, 1963 (August 28 1963) | Birth | Jennifer Coolidge, American actress | |
| August 28th, 1962 (August 28 1962) | Birth | Paul Allen, English footballer | |
| August 28th, 1962 (August 28 1962) | Birth | David Fincher, American music video and film director | David Fincher Quotes |
| August 28th, 1961 (August 28 1961) | Event | Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes. | |
| August 28th, 1961 (August 28 1961) | Birth | Kim Appleby, English singer | |
| August 28th, 1961 (August 28 1961) | Birth | Cliff Benson, American football player | |
| August 28th, 1960 (August 28 1960) | Birth | Emma Samms, English actress | |
| August 28th, 1959 (August 28 1959) | Death | Bohuslav Martinu, Czech composer (born in 1890) | |
| August 28th, 1958 (August 28 1958) | Birth | Scott Hamilton, American figure skater | |
| August 28th, 1957 (August 28 1957) | Birth | Daniel Stern, American actor | |
| August 28th, 1957 (August 28 1957) | Birth | Rick Rossovich, American actor | |
| August 28th, 1955 (August 28 1955) | Death | Emmett Till, American civil rights movement icon (born in 1941) | |
| August 28th, 1954 (August 28 1954) | Birth | George Church, American geneticist | |
| August 28th, 1953 (August 28 1953) | Event | Nippon Television broadcasts Japan s first television show, including its first TV advertisement. | |
| August 28th, 1952 (August 28 1952) | Birth | Rita Dove, American poet | |
| August 28th, 1952 (August 28 1952) | Birth | Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman | |
| August 28th, 1952 (August 28 1952) | Birth | Guy Nadon, Canadian actor | |
| August 28th, 1952 (August 28 1952) | Birth | Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician | |
| August 28th, 1951 (August 28 1951) | Birth | Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer | |
| August 28th, 1951 (August 28 1951) | Birth | Wayne Osmond, American singer (The Osmonds) | |
| August 28th, 1949 (August 28 1949) | Birth | Hugh Cornwell, British musician (The Stranglers) | |
| August 28th, 1949 (August 28 1949) | Birth | Svetislav Pesic, Serbian basketball player and coach | |
| August 28th, 1948 (August 28 1948) | Birth | Danny Seraphine, American musician (Chicago) | |
| August 28th, 1947 (August 28 1947) | Birth | Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress | An Wang Quotes |
| August 28th, 1947 (August 28 1947) | Birth | Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist | Martial Quotes |
| August 28th, 1947 (August 28 1947) | Death | Manolete, Spanish bullfighter (born in 1917) | |
| August 28th, 1945 (August 28 1945) | Birth | Robert Greenwald, American film director/producer | |
| August 28th, 1945 (August 28 1945) | Birth | Bob Segarini, Musician and radio personality | |
| August 28th, 1944 (August 28 1944) | Event | Marseille and Toulon are liberated. | |
| August 28th, 1944 (August 28 1944) | Birth | Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer | |
| August 28th, 1944 (August 28 1944) | Birth | Melvin Dummar, American claimant to the Howard Hughes estate | |
| August 28th, 1943 (August 28 1943) | Event | In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started. | |
| August 28th, 1943 (August 28 1943) | Birth | David Soul, American actor | |
| August 28th, 1943 (August 28 1943) | Birth | Lou Piniella, American baseball manager | |
| August 28th, 1943 (August 28 1943) | Death | King Boris III of Bulgaria (born in 1894) | |
| August 28th, 1942 (August 28 1942) | Birth | Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (died in 1995) | |
| August 28th, 1941 (August 28 1941) | Birth | Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat | |
| August 28th, 1941 (August 28 1941) | Birth | Paul Plishka, American bass | |
| August 28th, 1940 (August 28 1940) | Birth | Ken Jenkins, American actor | |
| August 28th, 1940 (August 28 1940) | Birth | Roger Pingeon, French cylist | |
| August 28th, 1940 (August 28 1940) | Birth | Nik Turner, English musician (Hawkwind) | |
| August 28th, 1938 (August 28 1938) | Birth | Paul Martin, Canadaian politician | Paul Martin Quotes |
| August 28th, 1938 (August 28 1938) | Birth | Maurizio Costanzo, Italian television journalist | |
| August 28th, 1937 (August 28 1937) | Event | Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. | |
| August 28th, 1936 (August 28 1936) | Birth | Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire | |
| August 28th, 1935 (August 28 1935) | Birth | Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (died in 1998) | |
| August 28th, 1933 (August 28 1933) | Death | Helen Dunbar, American actress (born in 1863) | |
| August 28th, 1932 (August 28 1932) | Birth | Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| August 28th, 1931 (August 28 1931) | Event | France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression. | |
| August 28th, 1931 (August 28 1931) | Birth | John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone | |
| August 28th, 1931 (August 28 1931) | Birth | Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario | |
| August 28th, 1930 (August 28 1930) | Birth | Windsor Davies, British actor | |
| August 28th, 1930 (August 28 1930) | Birth | Ben Gazzara, American actor | |
| August 28th, 1929 (August 28 1929) | Birth | Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (died in 1973) | |
| August 28th, 1929 (August 28 1929) | Birth | Ken Gampu, South African actor (died in 2003) | |
| August 28th, 1928 (August 28 1928) | Birth | F. William Free, American advertising executive (died in 2003) | |
| August 28th, 1925 (August 28 1925) | Birth | Donald O Connor, American singer, dancer, and actor (died in 2003) | |
| August 28th, 1925 (August 28 1925) | Birth | Billy Grammer, American country music singer and guitarist | |
| August 28th, 1924 (August 28 1924) | Event | Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. | |
| August 28th, 1924 (August 28 1924) | Birth | Janet Frame, New Zealand author (died in 2004) | |
| August 28th, 1924 (August 28 1924) | Birth | Peggy Ryan, American actress (died in 2004) | |
| August 28th, 1921 (August 28 1921) | Birth | Fernando Fernan Gomez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (died in 2007) | |
| August 28th, 1921 (August 28 1921) | Birth | Nancy Kulp, American actress (died in 1991) | |
| August 28th, 1920 (August 28 1920) | Birth | Frits Bernard, pedophile activist (died in 2006) | |
| August 28th, 1919 (August 28 1919) | Birth | Godfrey Hounsfield, Nobel Laureate (died in 2004) | |
| August 28th, 1917 (August 28 1917) | Event | Ten suffragists are arrested when picketing the White House. | |
| August 28th, 1917 (August 28 1917) | Birth | Jack Kirby, American comic book artist (died in 1994) | |
| August 28th, 1916 (August 28 1916) | Event | Germany declares war on Romania. | |
| August 28th, 1916 (August 28 1916) | Event | Italy declares war on Germany. | |
| August 28th, 1916 (August 28 1916) | Birth | Jack Vance, American author | Jack Vance Quotes |
| August 28th, 1916 (August 28 1916) | Birth | Helene Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (died in 1997) | |
| August 28th, 1915 (August 28 1915) | Birth | Max Robertson, British sports commentator | |
| August 28th, 1915 (August 28 1915) | Birth | Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (died in 2008) | |
| August 28th, 1914 (August 28 1914) | Event | The Royal Navy beats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. | |
| August 28th, 1914 (August 28 1914) | Event | German troops conquer Namur. | |
| August 28th, 1913 (August 28 1913) | Event | Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague. | |
| August 28th, 1913 (August 28 1913) | Birth | Robertson Davies, Canadian writer (died in 1995) | |
| August 28th, 1913 (August 28 1913) | Birth | Richard Tucker, American tenor (died in 1975) | |
| August 28th, 1913 (August 28 1913) | Birth | Terence Reese, British bridge player (died in 1996) | |
| August 28th, 1913 (August 28 1913) | Birth | Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer | |
| August 28th, 1911 (August 28 1911) | Birth | Joseph Luns, Dutch politician (died in 2002) | |
| August 28th, 1910 (August 28 1910) | Birth | Tjalling Koopmans, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1985) | |
| August 28th, 1908 (August 28 1908) | Birth | Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist (died in 1996) | |
| August 28th, 1907 (August 28 1907) | Event | UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington. | |
| August 28th, 1906 (August 28 1906) | Birth | John Betjeman, English poet (died in 1984) | John Betjeman Quotes |
| August 28th, 1904 (August 28 1904) | Birth | Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (died in 1980) | |
| August 28th, 1903 (August 28 1903) | Birth | Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (died in 1990) | |
| August 28th, 1903 (August 28 1903) | Death | Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (born in 1822) | |
| August 28th, 1900 (August 28 1900) | Death | Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (born in 1838) | Philo Quotes |
| August 28th, 1899 (August 28 1899) | Event | 122 houses, smelting factory, hospital, many facilities destroyed on hill, cause by heavy rain with debris blow, at Sumitomo Besshi bronze mine erea, Niihama, Shikoku, Japan, at least 512 killed. | Tom Ze Quotes |
| August 28th, 1899 (August 28 1899) | Birth | Charles Boyer, French actor (died in 1978) | |
| August 28th, 1898 (August 28 1898) | Event | Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink "Pepsi-Cola". | |
| August 28th, 1898 (August 28 1898) | Birth | Charlie Grimm, baseball player (died in 1983) | |
| August 28th, 1894 (August 28 1894) | Birth | Karl Bohm, Austrian conductor (died in 1981) | |
| August 28th, 1879 (August 28 1879) | Event | Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British. | |
| August 28th, 1878 (August 28 1878) | Birth | George Whipple, American scientist and Nobel laureate (died in 1976) | |
| August 28th, 1867 (August 28 1867) | Event | The United States occupies Midway Island. | |
| August 28th, 1867 (August 28 1867) | Birth | Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (died in 1948) | |
| August 28th, 1862 (August 28 1862) | Event | Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the battle of Second Manassas. | |
| August 28th, 1859 (August 28 1859) | Event | A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as further afield as Japan. | |
| August 28th, 1853 (August 28 1853) | Birth | Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer and inventor (died in 1939) | |
| August 28th, 1849 (August 28 1849) | Event | After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent, surrenders to Austria. | |
| August 28th, 1845 (August 28 1845) | Event | Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue. | |
| August 28th, 1840 (August 28 1840) | Birth | Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish merchant (died in 1900) | |
| August 28th, 1839 (August 28 1839) | Death | William Smith, English geologist (born in 1769) | Will Smith Quotes |
| August 28th, 1830 (August 28 1830) | Event | The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States. | |
| August 28th, 1827 (August 28 1827) | Birth | Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia (died in 1894) | |
| August 28th, 1820 (August 28 1820) | Death | Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (born in 1754) | |
| August 28th, 1818 (August 28 1818) | Death | Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, founder of Chicago | |
| August 28th, 1814 (August 28 1814) | Birth | Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (died in 1873) | |
| August 28th, 1805 (August 28 1805) | Death | Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (born in 1722) | |
| August 28th, 1801 (August 28 1801) | Birth | Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (died in 1877) | |
| August 28th, 1793 (August 28 1793) | Death | Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (born in 1740) | |
| August 28th, 1789 (August 28 1789) | Birth | Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (died in 1860) | |
| August 28th, 1785 (August 28 1785) | Death | Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (born in 1714) | |
| August 28th, 1784 (August 28 1784) | Death | Junipero Serra, Spanish missionary (born in 1713) | |
| August 28th, 1777 (August 28 1777) | Event | Battle of Cooch s Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware. | |
| August 28th, 1774 (August 28 1774) | Birth | Elizabeth Ann Seton, American-born Catholic saint (died in 1821) | |
| August 28th, 1757 (August 28 1757) | Death | David Hartley, English philosopher (born in 1705) | Philo Quotes |
| August 28th, 1749 (August 28 1749) | Birth | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist (died in 1832) | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| August 28th, 1714 (August 28 1714) | Birth | Anthony Ulrich II, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died in 1774) | |
| August 28th, 1691 (August 28 1691) | Birth | Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Holy Roman Empire Empress (died in 1750) | |
| August 28th, 1678 (August 28 1678) | Death | John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (born in 1602) | |
| August 28th, 1667 (August 28 1667) | Birth | Louise of Mecklenburg-Gustrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (died in 1721) | |
| August 28th, 1654 (August 28 1654) | Death | Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (born in 1583) | |
| August 28th, 1645 (August 28 1645) | Death | Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (born in 1583) | Philo Quotes |
| August 28th, 1640 (August 28 1640) | Event | King Charles I s English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn | |
| August 28th, 1619 (August 28 1619) | Event | Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. | |
| August 28th, 1612 (August 28 1612) | Birth | Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (died in 1653) | |
| August 28th, 1609 (August 28 1609) | Event | Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. | |
| August 28th, 1592 (August 28 1592) | Birth | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (died in 1628) | |
| August 28th, 1582 (August 28 1582) | Birth | Taichang Emperor, of the Ming dynasty of China (died in 1620) | |
| August 28th, 1565 (August 28 1565) | Event | St. Augustine, Florida, establishedied in It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States. | |
| August 28th, 1542 (August 28 1542) | Event | Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, Imam Ahmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese camp in the Battle of Wofla. The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovao da Gama captured and afterwards executed. | |
| August 28th, 1521 (August 28 1521) | Event | The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade. | |
| August 28th, 1511 (August 28 1511) | Event | Portuguese conquer Malacca. | |
| August 28th, 1481 (August 28 1481) | Death | King Afonso V of Portugal (born in 1432) | |
| August 28th, 1349 (August 28 1349) | Event | 6,000 Jews are killed in Mainz, accused to be the cause of the plague. | |
| August 28th, 1341 (August 28 1341) | Death | King Leo V of Armenia (born in 1309) | |
| August 28th, 1189 (August 28 1189) | Event | The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan | |
| August 28th, 1025 (August 28 1025) | Birth | Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (died in 1068) | |
| August 28th, 0489 (August 28 0489) | Event | Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy. | |
| August 28th, 0475 (August 28 0475) | Event | The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna, and appoints Romulus Augustus, his own son, as emperor. | |
| August 28th, 0430 (August 28 0430) | Death | Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (born in 354) | Augustine of Hippo Quotes |
| August 28th, 0388 (August 28 0388) | Death | Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper | |
