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The 28t o August is the 240t day o the year (241st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 125 days bidin.

Events

1521 - Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1565 - St. Augustine, Florida is foondit.
1789 - William Herschel discovers Saturn's muin Enceladus.
1845 - Scientific American magazine is first published.
1867 - The Unitit States takes ower Midway Atoll in the Paceefic Ocean.
1879 - Zulu King Cetshwayo is arrestit bi the Breetish.
1913 - The Peace Palace in The Hague opens.
1916 - Warld War I: Germany declares war on Romanie; Italy declares war on Germany.
1931 - Fraunce an the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty.
1937 - The car company Toyota is foondit.
1963 - The Mairch on Washington, D.C. for Jobs an Freedom taks place. Martin Luther King Jr. maks his "I Have a Dream" speech.
1972 - The soummer Mark Spitz wins the first two o his seven gold medals at the 1972 Simmer Olympics in Munich.
1988 - Rammstein airshow mishanter: Three Italian Frecce Tricolori demonstration aircraft collide ower Rammstein airbase in then-Wast Germany, wi wreckage fawin intae the crowd killin 75 fowk.
1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait as its 19t province.
1990 - A tornado in Plainfield an Joliet, Illinois kills 29 fowk.
1996 - Charles, Prince o Wales an Diana, Princess o Wales divorce.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina maks landfaw in Louisiana an Mississippi.
2008 - Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Pairty nomination for Preses o the Unitit States.
2019 - Brexit: Boris Johnson propales the intendit Prorogation o the Breetish pairlament.
2020 - Shinzo Abe propales his demission as Prime meenister o Japan acause o a chronic heal condition.

Births

1582 - Taichang Emperor o Cheenae (d. 1620)
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author (d. 1832)
1802 - Thomas Aird, Scots poet (d. 1876)
1860 - George McCrae, Scots politeecian (d. 1928)
1884 - Peter Fraser, Scots-born 24t Prime meenister o New Zealand (d. 1950)
1891 - Benno Schotz, Estonie-Scots sculptor (d. 1984)
1899 - Chang Myon, Korean statesman, eddicator, diplomat, jurnalist an social activist (d. 1966)
1906 - John Betjeman, Inglis poet (d. 1984)
1930 - Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
1937 - Ian Campbell, 12t Duke o Argyll, Scots peer (d. 2001)
1938 - Paul Martin, umwhile Prime meenister o Canadae
1942 - José Eduardo dos Santos, umwhile Preses o Angolae
1951 - Colin McAdam, Scots fitbawer (d. 2013)
1957 - Ivo Josipovic, umwhile Preses o Croatie
1962 - Duncan Shearer, Scots fitbawer
1964 - Kaj Leo Johannesen, umwhile Prime meenister o the Faroe Islands
1965 - Shania Twain, Canadian sangster an sangwriter
1967 - Greg Clark, Inglis politeecian
1968 - Billy Boyd, Scots actor an sangster
1969 - Jack Black, American actor an muisicker
1981 - Kezia Dugdale, Scots politeecian
1982 - Kevin McNaughton, Scots fitbawer
1982 - Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian fitbawer
1982 - LeAnn Rimes, American sangster
1984 - Paula Fernandes, Brazilian sangster
1986 - Gilad Shalit, Israeli sodger
1986 - Florence Welch, Inglis sangster (Florence and the Machine)
1987 - Bob Harris, Scots fitbawer
1989 - Jamie Murphy, Scots fitbawer
1989 - César Azpilicueta, Spaingie fitbawer
1989 - Valtteri Bottas, Finnish racin driver
1990 - Bojan Krkic, Spaingie fitbawer

Daiths

388 - Magnus Maximus, Roman Emperor (b. 335)
430 - Augustine o Hippo, Christian saunt
876 - Louis the German, Frankish king (b. 804)
1645 - Hugo Grotius, Dutch polymath (b. 1583)
1913 - Alexander Macfarlane, Scots logician, pheesicist an mathemateecian (b. 1851)
1930 - Bobby Walker, Scots fitbawer (b. 1879)
1941 - William Hay Caldwell, Scots zoologist (b. 1859)
1943 - Tsar Boris III o Bulgarie (b. 1894)
1987 - John Huston, American film director (b. 1906)
1994 - Neil Mochan, Scots fitbawer (b. 1927)
1995 - Michael Ende, German screiver (b. 1929)
2003 - William Cochran, Scots pheesicist (b. 1922)
2007 - Antonio Puerta, Spainyie fitbawer (b. 1984)
2013 - John Bellany, Scots penter (b. 1942)
2020 - Chadwick Boseman, American actor (b. 1976)

Halidays

Christian Feast Day o Assumption in the Orthodox Kirks