August 28

430 – Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Saint Augustine, dies in Hippo Regius, Numidia, in what is now Algeria.

1189 – Forces of the 3rd Crusade under the command of Guy of Lusignan begin the Siege of Acre.

1521 – The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade, Serbia.

1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founds St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied European established city in the continental U.S.

1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.

1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races  a horse drawn rail car, and although pulling far away at the beginning, suffers a mechanical failure and ultimately loses.

1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.

1861 –Combined Union Army and Naval forces begin an attack that ends with the capture of the Hatteras Inlet Batteries near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

1862 – The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas begins in Prince William County, Virginia.

1867 –Captain William Reynolds of USS Lackawanna formally takes possession of Midway Atoll, which is later built up to be used as a mid-Pacific supply point.

1898 – Caleb Bradham’s beverage “Brad’s Drink” is renamed “Pepsi-Cola”.

1916 – Germany declares war on Romania. Italy declares war on Germany.

1945 – U.S. Army troops land at the Atsugi airfield, Kanagawa Prefecture, to prepare for arrival of the 11th Airborne Division to begin the occupation of Japan. Combatant elements of Naval Task Force 31 enter Tokyo bay in preparation for the arrival of Naval Task Force 38 and the flagship USS Missouri.

1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; stopping 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1988 – 3 jet aircraft of the Italian Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide over Ramstein Air Base and the wreckage falls into the crowd, killing 75 people and seriously injuring 346 more.

1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.

2014 – Convicted spy John Anthony Walker completes his life sentence by dying of unknown causes in the Federal Prison at Butner, North Carolina.