Events on Aug 28

• 0476German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
• 0476West Roman Empire formally disbands / Emperor Romulus August ousted
• 1565Oldest city in the US, St. Augustine Florida, established
• 1609Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay
• 1619Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
• 1632Henry Casimir I appointed Viceroy of Drenthe
• 1637WIC-Colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
• 1655New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
• 18301st locomotive in US, "Tom Thumb, " runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
• 1837Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
• 18409 Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
• 1849Venice under Daniele Manin surrenders to Austrians under Radetsky, after been under siege since July 20 after proclaiming independence
• 1861Battle of Fort Hatteras, North Carolina
• 1862Battle of Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia
• 1862Belle Boyd released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC
• 1867US occupies Midway Islands in Pacific
• 1883Slavery banned throughout British Empire
• 18841st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
• 1884Mickey Welsh strikes-out 1st 9 men he faces
• 1907United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
• 190814th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club, Massachusetts
• 191145.7 cm rainfall at St. George, Georgia (state record)
• 1913Queen Wilhelmina opens Peace Palace (The Hague)
• 19143rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German / Russian battles
• 1914Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
• 1914John French evacuate Amiens
• 1916Germany declares war on Romania
• 1916Italy declares war against Germany during WWI
• 191710 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
• 1918Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly

Born on Aug 28

• 0865Rhazes [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi]: Persian Physician
• 1476Motonoboe: Japanese painter (Kano-school)
• 1673Conrad Michael Schneider: Composer
• 1700Carolomannus Pachschmidt: Composer
• 1749Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Frankfurt, Germany -- Social philosopher (Faust)
• 1754Peter Winter: Composer
• 1774Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton: 1st American Catholic Saint (1975)
• 1775Sophie Gail: Composer
• 1794Johannes Zwijsen: Archbishop (Utrecht Netherlands)
• 1795Joannes A Paredis: Belgian Bishop of Roermond
• 1798Gershom Jaques Van Brunt: Comm (Union Navy), died in 1863
• 1801Antoine A Cournot: French philosopher / mathematician (rule of Cournot)
• 1824Carel JCH van Nispen of Sevenaer: Dutch Catholic politician
• 1826Walter Cecil Macfarren: Composer
• 1827Teresa Milanollo: Composer
• 1828William Alexander Hammond: Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1900
• 1829Albert Dietrich: Composer
• 1831Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman: Composer
• 1831Lucy Ware Webb Hayes: 1st lady (1877-81)
• 1833Edward Burne-Jones: England, United Kingdom -- Pre-Raphaelite painter / designer
• 1840Ira D Sankey: US evangelist / composer / singer (Gospel hymns)
• 1842Willem Linnig, Jr.: Flemish painter / graphic artist
• 1872Alfred Baldwin Sloan: Composer
• 1878George Hoyt Whipple: United States -- Astrophysicist (Nobel-1934)
• 1881Arne Eggen: Composer
• 1882Carl W de Vries: Dutch jurist (Unknown Thorbecke)
• 1883E E Clive: Monmouthshire, Wales -- Actor (Night Must Fall, Dark Hour)
• 1885Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo: Composer
• 1887Daniel Zamudio: Composer
• 1889Charles Boyer: France -- Actor (Algiers, Fanny, Barefoot in the Park)

Died on Aug 28

• 0388Magnus Maximus: Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed
• 0430Aurelius Augustinus: Church elder / thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75
• 0876Louis the German: King of East France Empire (833-76)
• 1065Frederik van Luxembourg: Duke of Neth-Lutherans (1046-65)
• 1481Afonso V: King of Portugal
• 1484Diogo: Duke of Viseu, murdered
• 1539Lieven Pain: Flemish, beheaded at about 75
• 1544Alardus Aemstelredamus: Priest / humanist, dies at about 53
• 1646Fulvio Testi: Italian Poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53
• 1647Johann Dilliger: Composer, dies at 53
• 1654Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna: Swedish Earl / chancellor / regent, dies at 71
• 1676Joan Cererols: Composer, dies at 57
• 1677Wallerand Vaillant: Painter / engraver / etcher / cartoonist, dies at 54
• 1767Johann Schobert: Composer
• 1778Jacob Wallenberg: Swedish writer / shipminister
• 1793Adam-Philippe Custine: French Earl / General / parliament member
• 1803Charles L Fournier: Flemish writer / painter
• 1818Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable: Trader, founder of Chicago
• 1885Julius Hopp: Composer, dies at 66
• 1900Henry Sidgwick: English philosopher (Women on University)
• 1903August Labitzky: Composer, dies at 70
• 1914Anatoli Liadov: Composer, dies at 59
• 1916Francis W Warre-Cornish: Engl vice-provost of Eton (1893-1916)
• 1922Louis PMFG of Orleans: Earl of Eu / Brazil, dies at 80
• 1930Alvar Gullstrand: Swedish optician (Nobel 1911)
• 1943Boris III: Of Saksen-Coburg, King of Bulgaria (1918-43)
• 1951Robert Walker: Actor / writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32
• 1955Emmett Till: Kidnapped and lynched at 14, in Money Mississippi
• 1958Nikolay Semyonovich Golovanov: Composer, dies at 67
• 1959Bohuslav Jan Martinu: Czech Composer (Hry o Marti), dies at 68

Historical events on August 29

• 0284Gen Gaius Aurelius V Diocletianus Jovius (3) becomes Emperor of Rome
• 0284Origin of Era of Diocletian (Martyrs)
• 1178Anti-Pope Callistus III gives Pope title to Alexander III
• 1475Treaty of Picquigny: King Louis XI buys English contacts
• 1484Giovanni B Cibo elected as Pope Innocent VIII
• 1533Francisco Pizarro orders death of last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
• 1540Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights / privileges
• 1612Battle at Surat India: English fleet beats Portuguese
• 1640English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
• 1664Adriaen Pieck / Gerrit de Ferry patent wooden firespout in Amsterdam
• 1708English troops occupy Menorca and Sardinia
• 1708Haverhill, Mass destroyed by French and Indians
• 1742Edmond Hoyle published his "Short Treatise" on the card game whist
• 1756England and France meet in war
• 1756Prussian Libya occupies Saxson: beginning 7 years War
• 1758New Jersey Legislature forms 1st Indian reservation
• 1776Americans withdraw from Manhattan to Westchester
• 1792English warship Royal George capsizes in Spithead; kills 900
• 1793Slaves in French colony of St. Domingue (Haiti) freed
• 1831Michael Faraday demonstrates 1st electric transformer
• 1842Gr Britain and China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
• 18441st white-indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win
• 1854Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay)
• 18622nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) begins
• 1862Battle of Aspromonte-Italian royal forces defeat rebels
• 1862Battle of Bull Run, VA (Manassas, Gainesville, Bristoe Station)
• 1862US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation
• 1864William Huggins discovers chemical composition of nebulae
• 1882Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match vs. England (7-46 & 7-44)
• 1883Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hours after explosion

Born on August 29

• 1434Janus Pannonius: Hungarian poet / translator
• 1476Kano Motonobu: Kyoto, Japan -- Co-founder (Kano school of painting)
• 1561Bartholomeus Pitiscus: German mathematician (Trigonometry)
• 1609Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi]: Italian painter (Madonna)
• 1619Jean-Baptiste Colbert: French Minister of Naval / Baron
• 1632John Locke: England, United Kingdom -- Empiricist philosopher; disproved substance
• 1686Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel: Composer
• 1773Raphael G Kiesewetter: Austria -- Musicologist (Arab Music)
• 1780Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: French painter (Valpincon Bather)
• 1808Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch: German politician / Reformer
• 1809Oliver Wendell Holmes: Cambridge, Massachusetts -- Physician / author (Old Ironsides)
• 1811Henry Bergh: 1st President of SPCA
• 1815Anna Ella Carroll: United States -- Civil war writer (Reconstruction)
• 1849Titus A J van Asch van Wijck: Dutch Governor Suriname (1891-97)
• 1855Emil Pauer: Composer
• 1862P M B Maurice Maeterlinck: Belgium -- Poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911)
• 1874Walter Field
• 1876Charles F Kettering: Ohio, United States -- Inventor (auto self-starter)
• 1877Alfred DPR Pound: British Admiral / 1st Sealord (Jutland, WWII)
• 1879Han Yong-woon: Hongsung County, South Korea -- Zen teacher
• 1880Marie-Louise Meilleur: Canada -- Lived past 117
• 1881Edvin Kallstenius: Composer
• 1881Valery Nicolas Larbaud: France -- Novelist / translator (Enfantines)
• 1884Ehm Welk: Writer
• 1894E Franklin Frazier: Sociologist, died in 1962
• 1899Lyman L Lemnitzer: Marine Corps General (WWII)
• 1899George Macready: Providence, Rhode Island -- Actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place)
• 1900Oscar Nitzchke: German architect (Alcoa building / Centre Pompidou)
• 1903Ernst Kreuder: Writer
• 1903Olive Ann Beech: Aircraft industry executive

Died on August 29

• 0029John the Baptist: Beheaded
• 1523Ulrich von Hutten: German Poet / humanist / patriot, dies at 35
• 1526Louis II: King of Hungary / Bohemia, dies in accident at 20
• 1533Atahualpa: Last Inca King of Peru, murdered by Spanish conquerors
• 1653Gillesz de Hondecoeter: Painter / Hostage rights, buried at about 49
• 1712Gregory King: English statistician (law of King), dies at 63
• 1738Georg Reuter: Composer, dies at 81
• 1758Gerard Van Wage: Historian, dies at 75
• 1758Stepan F graaf Apraksin: Russian General-Field Marshal, dies at 56
• 1769Edmond Hoyle: Games expert
• 1782Richard Kempenfeldt: English Admiral, drowns
• 1799Pius VI [Giovanni A Braschi]: Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71
• 1821Horace Coignet: Composer, dies at 86
• 1861Franz Joseph Glaser: Composer, dies at 63
• 1865John Brough: US publisher / (gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54
• 1877Brigham Young: 2nd President of Mormon Church
• 1904Murad V: Sultan of Turkey (1876)
• 1909Emil C Hansen: Danish physiologist
• 1910Johann O Backlund: Swedish astronomer, dies at 64
• 1910John YWJ Eilerts de Cock: Sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44
• 1914Machagovsky: Russian General (Tannenberg), dies in battle
• 1918Max Dauthendey: Writer, dies at 51
• 1921Joel Asaph Allen: US zoologist (rule of Allen), dies at 83
• 1928Richard B Haldane: British viscount / lord-chancellor, dies at 72
• 1933Georgy Eduardovich Konyus: Composer, dies at 70
• 1935Astrid S L T Bernadotte: Queen of Belgium / Princess of Sweden
• 1935Charles Lee Williams: Composer, dies at 82
• 1940Arthur De Greef: Composer, dies at 77
• 1941Henri Louis: French officer / resistance fighter, executed at 40
• 1941Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik: Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36

Events on Aug 30

• 0257St. Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1125Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected King of Germany
• 1146European leaders outlaw crossbow intending to ending war for all time
• 1464Pietro Barbo elected to succeed Pope Pius II (Paul II)
• 14812 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish King Kazimierz IV
• 1563Jewish community of Neutitschlin Moravia expelled
• 1645Dutch and Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
• 1673Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands and Lutherans form anti-French covenant
• 1682William Penn left England to sail to New World
• 1721Russian / Swedish Peace of Nystad, ends North Sea War
• 1776US army evacuates Long Island / falls back to Manhattan, New York
• 1781French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War
• 1799Bataafse fleet surrender to English
• 1831Charles Darwin refuses to travel with HMS Beagle
• 18431st blacks participation in National political convention (Liberty Party)
• 1850Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
• 1854John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels
• 18601st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
• 18622nd Battle of Bull Run - Confederates beat Union
• 1862Battle of 2nd Manassas-Pope defeated by Lee-Battle of Richmond, Kentucky
• 1862Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
• 1862Battle of Richmond, Kentucky
• 1884Jack Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
• 188513,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
• 1888Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
• 189313rd US Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)
• 1894Frederick Lugards expedition to Niger
• 1895Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
• 1900Last 2000 British prisoners in Nooitgedagt South Africa freed
• 1901Hubert Cecil Booth patents vacuum cleaner

Born on Aug 30

• 1334Pedro [the Cruel]: King of Castilia and Leon
• 1609Artus I Quellinus "the Old": Flemish sculptor, baptised
• 1687Francesco Maria Vallara: Composer
• 1693Jacobus Nozeman: Dutch composer / Organist
• 1748Jacques-Louis David: France -- Neoclassical painter (Death of Marat)
• 1767Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke: Composer
• 1769Bonifacio Asioli: Composer / music writer
• 1772Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin: French royalist leader
• 1805Michael Sars: Norwegian zoologist
• 1809Adolf Friedrich Hesse: Composer
• 1811Thomas Gautier: Writer
• 1820George Frederick Root: Composer
• 1837Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur: 1st lady (1881-85)
• 1842Victor Alphonse Duvernoy: Composer
• 1844Friedrich Ratzel: German social-geographer (Lebensraum)
• 1849Joseph Mallaby Dent: Dutch publisher
• 1866Georges Minne: Flemish sculptor
• 1871Ernest Lord Rutherford: England, United Kingdom -- Physicist (atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908)
• 1878Paul Hazard: French literature historian
• 1882Meijer de Hond: Dutch rabbi / writer
• 1883Theo Van Doesburg [Christian EM Kupper]: Painter / architect (Style)
• 1884Theodor Svedberg: Sweden -- Chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel 1926)
• 1887Adam Kuckhoff: Writer
• 1893Huey P Long: Winn Parish, Louisiana -- (Gov / Sen-D-Louisiana)
• 1896Raymond Massey: Toronto, Ontario -- Actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare)
• 1900Franklin C Fry: US Minister (Lutheran World Relief)
• 1901John C Stennis: (Sen-D-MS, 1947-88)
• 1901Roy Wilkins: Civil rights director (NAACP)
• 1902Arnold Maria Walter: Composer
• 1906Countess of Longford: Biographer / historian

Died on Aug 30

• 1181Alexander III [Orlando Bandinelli]: Italian Pope (1159-81)
• 1482Louis van Bourbon: Prince-Bishop of Luik (Cluppelslagers)
• 1483Louis XI: King of France (1461-83), dies at 60
• 1529Juan del Encina: Composer, dies at 61
• 1580Emanuel Philibert: Duke of Savoy / Governor of the Netherlands
• 1666Benedictus Carpzovius [Benedikt Carpzov]: German lawyer
• 1745Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault: Composer, dies at 57
• 1808Joseph Anton Bauer: Composer, dies at 83
• 1809Ignacy Potocki: Polish Foreign Minister (constitution)
• 1826Theodor Zwetler: Composer, dies at 67
• 1879John B Hood: Confederate General (lost Atlanta), dies at 48
• 1904Kate Fanny Loder: Composer, dies at 79
• 1910Albert Vandal: French Earl / Historian (Napoleon), dies at 57
• 1914Adrian H Stewart: British lieutenant, dies in battle in Cameroon at 26
• 1914Aleksandr Samsonov: Russian General, commits suicide
• 1917Uritsky: Leader of Petrogradse Czech
• 1919Johann Sigurjonsson: Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)
• 1928Wilhelm Wien: German physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64
• 1932Willem M van Rossum: Cardinal / prefect of Propaganda Fide, dies at 77
• 1934Earnest L Wolzogen: German writer (That tolle Komtess), dies at 79
• 1935Henri Barbusse: French writer (Le feu), dies at 62
• 1943A[braham] [P] Merritt: Author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58
• 1944Morten Nielsen: Danish resistance fighter
• 1952Arky Vaughn: Infielder (Pirates and Dodgers), drowns
• 1953Dimiter Nenov: Composer, dies at 51
• 1956Jose Antonio de Donostia: Composer, dies at 70
• 1963Axel Stordahl: Orchestra leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50
• 1964Wesley Lau: Actor (Lt Anderson-Perry Mason), dies at 43
• 1968William Talman: Actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason), dies at 53
• 1970Anna Casati: Italian marchesa, murdered at 41