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This is a list of selected August 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar); refimprove section
Feast of Dormition (Julian calendar) refimprove section
1565Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States. refimprove sections
1845 – The first issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American, currently the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States, was published. unreferenced section
1849 – Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco, an Italian revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months earlier. refimprove
1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany. refimprove
1861American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extended its blockage strategy by capturing two Confederate forts on North Carolina's Outer Banks. unreferenced section
1867 – Captain William Reynolds of the USS Lackawanna formally took possession of Midway Atoll for the United States. refimprove section
1901Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines, was founded as the first American educational institution in Asia. Referencing issues
1924 – An unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began. date not cited
1937Toyota Motors, now the world's largest automobile manufacturer, was spun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company. no tag, but lots of paragraphs without citations
1957Strom Thurmond began a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes, the longest one ever by a single U.S. Senator. refimprove section
1963 – Two young women were murdered in New York City; the mistreatment of the suspect by the police and his forced confession led New York to abolish its death penalty. refimprove section
1963 – The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, at the time the world's longest floating bridge, opened across Lake Washington in Washington, U.S. lots of citations needed (5) and a refimprove section
1988 – During an air show at the Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany, three aircraft of the Italian Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collided and fell into the crowd, killing all three pilots and 67 spectators. unreferenced section
Sheridan Le Fanu |b|1814 Unreferenced material
Edward Burne-Jones |b|1833| unreferenced section
Shania Twain |b|1965| Lots unsourced
Shulamith Firestone |d|2012 Lots unsourced

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SMS Mainz (background) shortly before sinking in the Battle of Heligoland Bight
SMS Mainz (background) shortly before sinking in the Battle of Heligoland Bight
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