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Today In History - August 28 |
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On This Date in History |
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476 The German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia 476 The West Roman Empire formally disbands: emperor Romulus August is ousted 1521 The Turkish sultan Suleiman I has his troops occupy Belgrade 1565 The Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine, FL is established 1609 Henry Hudson discovers and explores the Delaware Bay 1619 Ferdinand II is elected Holy Roman Emperor 1632 Henry Casimir I is appointed Viceroy of Drenthe 1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus 1830 The first locomotive in the U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs 1837 Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufacture Worcestershire Sauce 1840 Nine Jewish prisoners are released from the Damascus jails 1861 The Battle of Fort Hatteras, NC 1862 The Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, VA 1862 Belle Boyd is released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C. 1867 The U.S. occupies the Midway Islands in Pacific 1879 Battle at Ulundi 1883 Slavery is banned throughout the British Empire 1884 The first known photograph of a tornado is taken near Howard, South Dakota 1907 United Parcel Service begins service: Seattle 1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace 1914 The 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg 1914 The Battle at Helgoland 1914 John French evacuates Amiens 1916 Germany declares war on Romania 1916 Italy declares war on Germany 1917 Ten suffragists are arrested as they picket the White House 1919 General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa 1920 The 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights 1925 A meteorite crashes down on Ellemeet, Schouwen 1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria 1938 Northwestern University awards an honorary degree to dummy Charlie McCarthy 1939 "Monty" (general Montgomery) becomes the commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division 1939 The Netherlands mobilize 1943 Denmark declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers 1943 Mussolini is transferred from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso 1944 The last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared 1944 U.S. air raid on Ambon 1952 German and Israeli reach an accord about recovery payments 1955 Marilynn Smith wins the LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament 1957 Senator Strom Thurmond begins a 24-hr filibuster against the civil rights bill 1963 200,000 people demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C. 1963 The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge opens: connecting Seattle and Bellevue 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial 1964 The U.S. performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1964 The U.S. weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic 1968 Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention 1972 U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. 1973 A 6.8 earthquake centered in Oaxaca State in Mexico kills 527 people 1973 France performs a nuclear test at Muruora Island 1973 India and Pakistan sign a POW accord 1973 The U.S.S.R. performs an underground nuclear test 1976 The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. 1977 Bonnie Lauer wins the LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic 1978 Ja'afar Sharif-Emami is appointed Premier of Iran 1979 An IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market 1981 John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent of an attempt to kill President Reagan 1981 The CDC (National Centers for Disease Control) announces a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men 1982 The U.S.S.R. performs an underground nuclear test 1983 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin announces his resignation 1984 The U.S.S.R. performs an underground nuclear test 1986 Tina Turner's star is unveiled in Hollywood 1986 U.S. Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years for spying 1991 The Lexington Avenue IRT subway train derails at Union Square and 5 people die 1993 A dam breaks in Qinghai, China and 223 people are killed 1993 Singapore vice-premier Teng Cheong is elected President 1994 The 94th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship is won by Tiger Woods 1994 The first Japanese gay pride parade 1997 Belgian amusement park visitors were stuck upside down in a ride for 90 minutes |
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Featured event for the day: 1862 Belle Boyd is released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C…. Her real name was Maria Isabella Boyd, but she was not well known by that name. She was born on May 4, 1844 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, and died June 11, 1900. During the American Civil War, Ms. Boyd was a Confederate spy. While working in her father's hotel, she would gather and then pass information to Turner Ashby and General Stonewall Jackson. Belle would send her messages by way of her slave, Eliza Hopewell. Hopewell would conceal and carry the messages in a hollowed-out watch case. On July 29, 1862, she was taken prisoner and subsequently held in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington. For her spying, she was awarded the Southern Cross of Honor by the CSA. In 1864 she moved to England. Subsequently she moved back to the US and ultimately ended up an actress living in Kilbourne City, Wisconsin – where she passed away at the age of 55. |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1476 Motonoboe 1592 George Villiers 1748 Amalia Furstin von Gallitzin 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1754 Peter Winter 1774 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1798 Gershom Jaques Van Brunt 1801 Antoine A. Cournot 1826 Walter Cecil Macfarren 1827 Teresa Milanollo 1828 Leo Tolstoi 1828 William Alexander Hammond 1829 Albert Dietrich 1831 Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman 1831 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes 1833 Edward Burne-Jones 1872 Alfred Baldwin Sloan 1878 George Hoyt Whipple 1885 Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo 1887 Daniel Zamudio 1889 Charles Boyer 1890 Ivor Gurney 1891 Stanley Andrews 1894 Charles Aubroeck 1894 Karl Bohm 1897 Morris Ankrum 1898 Ludwig Turek 1901 Cornelis J. Kelk 1901 Paul Henry Lang 1903 Rudolph Wagner-Regeny 1905 Cyril Walters 1905 Sam Levene 1906 John Betjeman 1907 Philip A. Edwards 1908 Roger Tory Peterson 1912 Ruurd Faber 1913 John Terence Reese 1913 Lindsay Hassett 1913 Richard Tucker 1913 Robertson Davies 1914 Glenn Osser 1916 Jack Vance 1917 Jack Kirby 1918 Alejandro Lanusse 1919 Ernest H Martin 1921 Joop Doderer 1921 Nancy Kulp 1924 Janet Frame 1924 Peggy Ryan 1924 Tony MacGibbon 1924 Vilayat Khan 1925 Arkadi N. Strugazki 1925 John Gillett 1925 Marvin Davis 1928 James Wild 1929 Istvan Kertesz 1929 Rokie Roker 1930 Ben Gazzara 1931 John Perkins 1931 John Shirley-Quirk 1932 Carlene Polite 1932 Pat Morita 1939 Cassie Mackin 1939 Clem Cattini 1939 Edward Patten 1940 Richard Sanders 1940 William S. Cohen 1941 Paul Peter Plishka 1942 Jose Eduardo Dos Santos 1943 Anne "Honey" Lantree 1943 David Soul 1943 Lou Pinella 1945 Bruno Nuytten 1947 Alice Playton 1951 Dave Hlubek 1951 Wayne Osmond 1952 Rita Dove 1953 Gates McFadden 1956 Beverley Goddard-Callender 1957 Daniel Stern 1957 Rick Rossovich 1958 Scott Scovell Hamilton 1961 Kim Appleby 1962 Richard Elliott Fehr 1963 Abe Button 1963 Regina Marie Jacobs 1963 Reyna Thompson 1964 Lee MacLeod Janzen 1965 James Jagger 1965 Shania Twain 1966 Jerry Fehily 1966 Teresa Zarzeczny Bell 1967 Chris Armstrong 1967 Darren Lewis 1968 Scarlet Annette Morgan 1968 Tom Fitzgerald 1969 Jason Priestley 1969 Mary McCartney 1969 Pierre Turgeon 1970 Gavin Maxwell 1970 Jaime Fields 1971 Janet Evans 1971 Olaf Sheep 1971 Raul Marquez 1971 Scott Eldredge 1971 Shane Andrews 1971 Todd Eldredge 1972 Darby Hendrickson 1972 Mike Cawley 1973 Eric Lindros 1974 Mark Smith 1982 Leann Rimes |
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