98041 | August 28 | Death | 2013 – Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (b. 1961) |
98042 | August 28 | Death | 2013 – Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (b. 1926) |
98043 | August 28 | Death | 2013 – Murray Gershenz, American actor (b. 1922) |
98044 | August 28 | Death | 2013 – Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1935) |
98045 | August 28 | Death | 2013 – Barry Stobart, English footballer (b. 1938) |
98046 | August 28 | Death | 2013 – Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1925) |
98047 | August 28 | Death | 2014 – Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (Jethro Tull and Paris) (b. 1947) |
98048 | August 28 | Death | 2014 – Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (b. 1956) |
98049 | August 28 | Death | 2014 – Ivan Ivančić, Croatian shot putter and coach (b. 1937) |
98050 | August 28 | Death | 2014 – Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor (b. 1922) |
98051 | August 28 | Death | 2014 – John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (b. 1937) |
98052 | August 28 | Death | 2015 – Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932) |
98053 | August 28 | Death | 2015 – Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920) |
98054 | August 28 | Death | 2015 – Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (b. 1937) |
98055 | August 28 | Holiday and observance | Dormition of the Mother of God (Eastern Orthodox Church, a public holiday in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Georgia) |
98056 | August 28 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Augustine of HippoSaint HermesMoses the Black (Episcopal Church (USA), Lutheran Church)August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
98057 | August 28 | Holiday and observance | Crackers of the Keyboard Day |
98058 | August 28 | Holiday and observance | National Cherry Turnover Day (United States) |
98059 | August 29 | Event | 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708). |
98060 | August 29 | Event | 1261 – Pope Urban IV succeeds Pope Alexander IV as the 182nd pope. |
98061 | August 29 | Event | 1315 – Battle of Montecatini: The army of the Republic of Pisa, commanded by Uguccione della Faggiuola, wins a decisive victory against the joint forces of the Kingdom of Naples and the Republic of Florence despite being outnumbered. |
98062 | August 29 | Event | 1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships. |
98063 | August 29 | Event | 1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England. |
98064 | August 29 | Event | 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV. |
98065 | August 29 | Event | 1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal. |
98066 | August 29 | Event | 1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade). |
98067 | August 29 | Event | 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia. |
98068 | August 29 | Event | 1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. |
98069 | August 29 | Event | 1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the royal governor Claus Paarss. |
98070 | August 29 | Event | 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War. |