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430 Aug 28 |
430 Aug 28, Augustine (b.354) died in Hippo (Annaba, Algeria) with a Vandal army outside the gates of the city. His writings included "The Confessions." In 1999 Garry Wills authored the biography "St. Augustine." Augustine had developed the theory of a "just war" and said a nation’s leaders must consider among other things, anticipated loss of civilian life and whether all peaceful options have been exhausted before war starts. In 2003 Garry Wills authored "Saint Augustine's Sin." In 2005 James J. O’Donnell authored “Augustine: A New Biography.” Augustine turned against the spirit of intellectual inquiry once he found salvation. His dogmatic invective laid the foundations for centuries of intellectual tyranny by the Catholic church. Links: Algeria, Vatican, Biography 
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1565 Aug 28 |
A Spanish expedition under Pedro Menendez de Aviles arrived at an inlet on the Florida coast on the feast day of St. Augustine and gave the theologian’s name to the encampment. Links: Spain, Florida
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1676 Aug 28 |
Indian chief King Philip, also known as Metacom, was killed by English soldiers, ending the war between Indians and colonists. Links: AmerIndian
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1849 Aug 28 |
Venice, under Daniele Manin, surrendered to Austrians under Count Radetsky, following a siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence. Links: Austria
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1859 Aug 28 |
Leigh Hunt (b.1784), English poet and essayist, died. He is remembered for his immortal couplet: “The Two divinist things this world has got: / A lovely women in a rural spot. In 2005 Nicholas Roe authored “Fiery Heart: The first Life of Leigh Hunt.” Anthony Holden authored “The Wit in the Dungeon: The Life of Leigh Hunt.” Links: Britain, Poet, Writer, Biography
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1883 Aug 28 |
John Montgomery (b.1858) made the first manned, controlled flight in the US in his "Gull" glider, whose design was inspired by watching birds. The craft weight 38 pounds and flew to 15 feet for at least 300 feet at Otay Mesa near San Diego, Ca. In 1911 Montgomery died in a glider crash. Links: USA, California, Aviation
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1894 Aug 28 |
Karl Boehm, Austrian conductor, was born. Famed for his interpretations of Wagner and Beethoven. Links: Austria
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1906 Aug 28 |
John Betjeman (d.1984), poet laureate of England (1972-1984), was born. Links: Britain, Poet
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1907 Aug 28 |
Two Seattle teenagers began a telephone message service that grew to become the United Parcel Service (UPS). Jim Casey (19) and Claude Ryan founded the American Messenger Company in Seattle, Wash. In 1913 the company merged with Evert McCabe and formed Merchants Parcel Delivery. In 1919 the company expanded beyond Seattle and changed their name to United Parcel Service (UPS). Links: USA, Washington
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1909 Aug 28 |
American Glenn Curtiss won the James Gordon Bennett Cup at the first major international air show held in Rheims France. Links: USA, France, Aviation
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1914 Aug 28 |
Three German cruisers were sunk by ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of World War I. The Germans lost four ships and 1,000 sailors; British casualties were 33 killed. Links: Britain, Germany, WWI
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1931 Aug 28 |
Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer, reached within 550 miles of the North Pole in the submarine Nautilus. Links: Arctic
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1938 Aug 28 |
Mauthausen concentration camp began operating in Austria. Links: Austria
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1943 Aug 28 |
Denmark declared a universal strike against Nazi occupiers. Links: Denmark
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1944 Aug 28 1944 Sep 9 |
In Italy 10 citizens from Forli were killed "without need and without any justified motive" by a platoon led by German officer Heinrich Nordhorn. In 2006 an Italian military tribunal convicted Nordhorn (86) in absentia in the killings of the 10 civilians. Links: Italy, Germany, Murder
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1945 Aug 28 |
Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung arrived in Chunking to confer with Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek in a futile effort to avert civil war. Links: China
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1955 Aug 28 |
Emmett Till (14), a black teen-ager from Chicago, was abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Miss., by white men after he had supposedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman; he was found murdered three days later. Eyewitnesses linked Carolyn’s husband Roy Bryant and half-brother J.W. Milam to the murder. Bryant and Milam were indicted Sep 10 for a trial on Sep 19. Both were acquitted by an all-white jury. Bryant and Milan later confessed to the killing in a magazine interview. The area was a cotton-trading center where the white Citizens Councils maintained their regional headquarters. In 2004 the US Justice Dept. opened a criminal investigation into the case. In 2005 the US Senate acknowledged a share in the boy’s death. Links: USA, Black History, Chicago, Murder, Mississippi
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1959 Aug 28 |
Raphael Lemkin (b.1900), a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent, died in NYC. In 1943 he coined the word genocide and first used the word in print in “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation - Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress” (1944). Links: USA, Poland, Genocide
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1965 Aug 28 |
Bob Dylan was scorned at a concert in NY's Forest Hills. Links: NYC, Pop&Rock
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1965 Aug 28 |
The Viet Cong were routed in the Mekong Delta by U.S. forces, with more than 50 killed. Links: Vietnam
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1968 Aug 28 |
In Chicago, Ill., Vice-President Hubert Horatio Humphrey was nominated by the Democrats for US Presidency on the first ballot. Riots broke out outside the Democratic National Convention as police and anti-war demonstrators clashed in the streets. The 1969 film "Medium Cool" was set during the Chicago Convention riots of 1968. Links: USA, Chicago, Mad Crowd
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1968 Aug 28 |
Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff (1910-1998) nominated George McGovern for the US Presidency and strongly criticized Chicago’s Mayor Daly for his strong-arm tactics in controlling protestors at the Democratic National Convention. Links: USA, Chicago
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1969 Aug 28 |
In Quang Nam province of Vietnam Corporal Jose Francisco Jimenez died of wounds after leading an attack that took out an antiaircraft weapon and an entrenchment of automatic weapons fire. Links: USA, Vietnam
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1971 Aug 28 |
Marie Paule Giguere (b.1921), a Catholic nun in Quebec, founded the Army of Mary as a prayer group, saying she was receiving visions from God. In 2007 the Vatican declared her teachings were heretical and in Arkansas six nuns were excommunicated after refusing to give up membership in the sect. Links: Canada, USA, Arkansas, Religion
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1972 Aug 28 |
Prince William of Gloucester was killed in an air race near Wolverhampton in the west Midlands. Links: Britain, Air Crash
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1973 Aug 28 |
Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989), "cultural revolutionary," was busted for smuggling and dealing cocaine. He went underground for 7 years and became the environmental activist Barry Freed. Links: USA, Drugs
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1973 Aug 28 |
Princess Anne became the first member of the British royal family to visit the Soviet Union when she arrived in Kiev for an equestrian event. Links: Russia, Ukraine, Britain, USSR
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1973 Aug 28 |
More than 600 people died as an earthquake shook central Mexico. Links: Earthquake, Mexico, Disaster
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1977 Aug 28 |
Ralph Samuelson (b.1904), the acknowledged father of water skiing, died on Pine Island, Minnesota. Links: USA, Minnesota
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1978 Aug 28 |
Robert Shaw (b.1927), English-born film and stage actor, died of heart attack in Ireland. He received a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Henry VIII in “A Man for All Seasons” (1966). Links: Britain, Ireland, Filmstar, Theater
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1978 Aug 28 |
Bruce Catton (b.1899), US historian, died in Frankfort, Michigan. He won a 1954 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book “A Stillness at Appomattox,” his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia. Links: USA, Historian, Writer, Michigan, Civil War (US)
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1979 Aug 28 |
Brazil’s presiding General Joao Figueiredo declared a reciprocal amnesty law that prevented the prosecution of soldiers and military agents for acts of violence during the dictatorship. Links: Brazil
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1979 Aug 28 |
Konstantin Simonov (b.1915), Russian war correspondent and poet, died in Moscow. His poems included “Wait For Me” (1942). Links: Russia, Poet, USSR, Journalism
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1981 Aug 28 |
John W. Hinckley Jr. pleaded innocent to charges of attempting to kill President Reagan. Hinckley was acquitted in 1982 by reason of insanity. Links: USA, ReaganR
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1981 Aug 28 |
The US national Centers for Disease Control, noting a high incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men, announced a medical task force had been formed to find out why. It was later determined the increased number of illnesses was caused by AIDS. Links: USA, Gays, AIDS
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1982 Aug 28 |
LeAnn Rimes, country pop singer, was born in Jackson, Miss. Links: USA, Mississippi, Pop&Rock
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1982 Aug 28 |
The burlesque musical "Sugar Babies" closed at the Mark Hellinger Theater in NYC after 1208 performances. Links: USA, NYC, Theater
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1983 Aug 28 |
Israel’s PM Begin, reportedly despondent over the death of his wife and the rising casualty toll of Israeli troops in Lebanon, announced his intention to resign as fighting continued in Lebanon with no apparent end in sight. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon
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1985 Aug 28 |
Ruth Gordon (88), American actress (Big Bus), died of a stroke in her sleep. Links: USA, Filmstar, TV
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1986 Aug 28 |
Jerry A. Whitworth, retired US Navy warrant officer, convicted for his role in a Soviet spy ring, was sentenced by a federal judge in San Francisco to 365 years in prison. Links: Russia, USA, SF, USSR, Espionage
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1987 Aug 28 |
A fire damaged the Arcadia, Fla., home of Ricky, Robert and Randy Ray, three hemophiliac brothers infected with the AIDS virus whose court-ordered school attendance sparked a local uproar. The Ray family soon moved to Sarasota, Fla. Links: USA, Florida, AIDS, Fire
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1987 Aug 28 |
John Huston, U.S. actor and film director, died at age 81 in Middletown, R.I. Among his best known films are "The Maltese Falcon,'' "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' and "The African Queen.'' Links: USA, Filmstar, Rhode Island
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1988 Aug 28 |
At least 40 people were killed when three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show at the US Air Base in Ramstein, West Germany, sending flaming debris into the crowd of spectators. Over the next 2 months the death toll rose to 69. Links: Italy, USA, Germany, Air Crash
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1988 Aug 28 |
The Yan Hee Polyclinic in Bangkok, Thailand, reported on a new slimming technique. Overweight Thais were suppressing their appetites by sticking lettuce seeds in their ears and pressing them in ten times before meals. Links: Thailand, Food
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1989 Aug 28 |
Former televangelist Jim Bakker's fraud and conspiracy trial opened in Charlotte, N.C.; Bakker was convicted of all 24 counts the next October and then served 4 ½ years of an 8 year sentence. Links: USA, North Carolina, Lawsuit, Religion, Fraud
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1990 Aug 28 |
German spy Juergen Mohamed Gietler was arrested for passing military information to Iraq. He provided Iraq with intelligence reports on US military plans that included what the West knew of Iraqi Scud-B missile sites. He was convicted in a secret trial in 1991, sentenced to 5 years in prison and released in 1994 after which he moved to Egypt. Links: Iraq, USA, Germany, Espionage
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1990 Aug 28 |
Iraq declared occupied Kuwait the 19th province of Iraq, renamed Kuwait City Kadhima, and created a new district named after President Saddam Hussein. A puppet regime under Alaa Hussein was set up. Alaa Hussein was convicted of treason in 2000 and sentenced to death. Saddam Hussein, saying he sympathized with his foreign captives, pledged to free detained women and children. Links: Iraq, Kuwait
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1990 Aug 28 |
In Foster City, Ca., police stopped a car for running a red light and found Norman Hsu, a native of Hong Kong, inside with a Chinatown gang leader, who had abducted him for not paying a debt. Hsu fled to Hong Kong in 1992 following fraud charges filed by Oakland businessman Augie Wu. In 2003 Hsu resurfaced in NYC as a major donor for Democratic candidates. In 2007 his criminal background was revealed and candidates pledged to give his contributions to charity. In California Hsu posted a $2 million bail and again failed to make his court appearance. Links: USA, Hong Kong, SF Bay Area, Scam, Fraud
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1991 Aug 28 |
In NYC 5 subway riders were killed after subway motorman Robert Ray fell asleep drunk while in control of a train. He was convicted of manslaughter in 1992 and sentenced to 15 years. He was set free in 2001 for good behavior. Links: USA, NYC, Drunk
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1991 Aug 28 |
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev ordered a shake-up of the KGB and sacked his cabinet in the wake of the failed coup by hard-liners. Links: Russia, USSR
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1992 Aug 28 |
The US government mounted two huge relief operations, rushing food and drinking water to hurricane-ravaged Florida. Links: USA, Florida, Hurricane
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1992 Aug 28 |
US cargo planes landed in Somalia with tons of food for African famine victims. Links: USA, Somalia
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1993 Aug 28 |
The Bosnian Parliament ordered President Alija Izetbegovic back to talks on ending 17 months of war with demands to squeeze more territory for the Muslim-led government. Links: Bosnia
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1994 Aug 28 |
A Drug Enforcement Administration plane crashed in a remote area of Peru's cocaine-producing jungle, killing five U.S. agents. Links: Peru, USA, Drugs
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1995 Aug 28 |
A mortar shell tore through a crowded market in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing 38 people and triggering NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs. Bosnian Serb shells hit Serajevo near the main market and killed 37 people and wounded 85 others. Links: Bosnia, Serbia, NATO
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1995 Aug 28 |
Chase Manhattan and Chemical Banking announced a $10 billion deal to create the biggest bank in the nation. Links: USA, M&A, Banking
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1995 Aug 28 |
California Governor Pete Wilson formally entered the GOP presidential race. Links: USA, California
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1996 Aug 28 |
China accused the US of aiding Taiwanese separatism by selling Stinger antiaircraft missiles and other weapons to the Taipei government. Links: USA, China, Taiwan
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1996 Aug 28 |
In China Mou Qizhong, head of the Land Economic Group, was being pressured by the government to repay up to $50 million in overdue loans. He was also the proponent for listing China’s 13,700 large state-owned enterprises on the New York Stock Exchange. However the state has a minimum 7.65% upfront payment law to take 51% control of a joint venture. Links: China, NYSE
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1996 Aug 28 |
Democrats nominated President Clinton for a second term at their national convention in Chicago. Links: USA, Chicago, ClintonB
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