Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 28

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 * 475 – Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.
 * 1542 – Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts: During the Battle of Wofla, the Portuguese commander Cristóvão da Gama was captured by the Adal Sultanate and executed the next day.
 * 1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
 * 1789 – With the first use of his new 1.2 m telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus.
 * 1830 – Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive, engaged in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.
 * 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, received royal assent.
 * 1914 – In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships ambushed a German naval patrol in the Heligoland Bight.
 * 1950 – In tennis, Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
 * 1955 – African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
 * 1973 – Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; during the incident the hostages had bonded with their captors, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.
 * 1993 – The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
 * 1993 – The first direct Presidential election in Singapore was held.
 * 2003 – A pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed during a complex bank robbery when a bomb that was locked around his neck exploded.
 * 2021 - The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line opens for service
 * Born/died this day: | He Gui |d|919|Augustine of Hippo |d|430| Johannes Banfi Hunyades |d|1646| Jean Baptiste Point du Sable |d|1818| Edward Dando |d|1832| Vittorio Sella |b|1859| Lindsay Hassett |d|1767| Frederick William von Kleist |b|1913| Jack Kirby |b|1917| Katharine Abraham |b|1954| Béla Guttmann |d|1981| Shulamith Firestone |d|2012