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August 28: Encyclopedia - August 28

August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. August 28 - Events. 475 - The Pannonian general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints Romulus Augustus in his place. 489 - Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy. 1521 - The Turks occupy Belgrade 1542 - Reinforced wi ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia II - Events

1850 - Unknown Date. The United States Republican Party is founded Foundation of the University of Sydney, the oldest in Australia The American System of Watch Manufacturing starts in Roxbury, Mass.U.S.A. Waltham Watch Company Bingley Hall, the world's first purpose- built exhibition hall, opens in Birmingham, England. Pinkerton Detective Agency France begins to transport colonists to Algeria Modern acoustic guitar created in Spain Rifling becom ...

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1850, 1850 - Events, 1850 - Unknown Date, 1850 - Births, 1850 - January - April, 1850 - May - December, 1850 - Unknown Date, 1850 - Deaths, 1850 - January - May, 1850 - June - December, 1850 - Unknown Date

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August 28: Encyclopedia II - Births

1850 - January - April. January 4 - Frederick York Powell, English historian and scholar (died 1904) January 6 - Eduard Bernstein, German social democratic theoretician and politician (died 1932) January 6 - Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (died 1924) January 10 - John Wellborn Root, U.S. architect (died 1891) January 11 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (died 1917) January 14 - Pierre Loti, French sailor and writer (died 1923) Janu ...

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1850, 1850 - Events, 1850 - Unknown Date, 1850 - Births, 1850 - January - April, 1850 - May - December, 1850 - Unknown Date, 1850 - Deaths, 1850 - January - May, 1850 - June - December, 1850 - Unknown Date

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1988

1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. 1988 - Events. January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. January 2 - Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 - Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial. 1988 - February. ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1938

1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1938 - Events. January 3 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 5 - H.R.H. Prince Juan Carlos of Spain is born. January 11 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 20 - Wedding of King Farouk I of Egypt and Queen Farida Zulficar in Cairo January 28 - The first ski tow in America be ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1931

1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. 1931 - Events. January 4 - Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa January 6 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. January 22 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia January 25 - Mohandas Gandhi released again January 27 - Pierre Laval forms a government in France February 3 - Napier earthquake - mu ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1925

1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). 1925 - Events. January 3 - Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy. January 5 - Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first female governor in the United States. January 27–February 1 - The 1925 serum run to Nome, or the "Great Race of Mercy", relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska to combat an ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1980

1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. It is equivalent to 2733 a.U.c., and to 1359 AH. 1980 - Events. January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom. January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother. January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. January 5 - Hewlett-Packard ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1981

1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. 1981 - Events. January - Sarawak chamber found January 1 - Greece enters the EEC January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end September 16, 1983 - after 978 days Janua ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1947

1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1947 - Events. January 1 - British mines nationalized January 1 - Nigeria gains limited autonomy January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect January 3 - Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time January 10 - United Nations takes control of the free city of Trieste January 15 - Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia") is ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - Calendar of saints

The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more saints, and referring to the day as the saint's day of that saint. The system arose from the very early Christian custom of annual commemoration of martyrs on the date of their death. As the number of recognized saints increased during Late Antiquity and roughly the first half of the Middle Ages, eventually every day of the year had at least one saint who was commemorated on that ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1949

1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. 1949 - Events. January 2 - Luis Muñoz Marín became the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. January 4 - RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage January 4 - February 22 - Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, Colorado and Nevada - winds of up to 72 mph - tens of thousands of cattle and sheep perish January 5 - ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1971

1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). 1971 - Events. January 1 - British Divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. January 2 - A ban on television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States. January 3 - BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom Januar ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1957

1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. 1957 - Events. January 1 - Saarland joins West Germany January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. January 3 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly magazine is published January 5 - Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1979

This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). 1979 (MCMLXXIX) is a common year starting on Monday. 1979 - Events. 1979 energy crisis - occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution January 1 - United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "International Year of the Child." Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. January 1 - Sino-American relations: United States and ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1972

1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. 1972 - Events. International year of the book January 2 - The Pierre Hotel Heist - Six men rob the safety deposit boxes of the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Loot is at least $4 million. January 4 - Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge at the Old Bailey in London. January 5 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space sh ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2005

The post-invasion period in Iraq followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition led by the United States, which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein. This article covers the period starting 1 May 2003. Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–2005 - Military occupation. A military occupation was established and run by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), which later appointed and granted limited powers to an Iraq Interim Governing Council. Troops for the occupation came primarily ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1996

1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. 1996 - Events. January 5 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern states, killing more than 100. January 8 - Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1849

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). 1849 - Events. January 1 France issues Ceres, France's first postage stamp. In Milan, anti-Austrian activists organize a smoking boycott in protest of the Austrian monopoly on tobacco. Protests erupts into brief riots. January 12 - Uprising against Austrian troops in Palermo, Sicily< ...

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August 28: Encyclopedia - 1850

Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 1850 - Events. January 4 - The first American ice-skating club is formed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). January 29 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress February 28 - University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah March 7 - United States Senator Daniel Webster giv ...

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