* Earliest day on which National Heroes ' Day can fall, while August 28 is the latest ; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.

Afonso V (, originally Affonso ) KG ( 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481 ), called the African (), was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

August Wilhelm Ambros ( November 17, 1816 – June 28, 1876 ) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.

** August 28 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

hif: 28 August

pag: August 28

sco: 28 August

simple: August 28

yo: 28 August

November 13, 354 – August 28, 430 ), also known as St. Augustine, St. Austin, or St. Augoustinos, was bishop of Hippo Regius ( present-day Annaba, Algeria ).

In the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinians ; his memorial is celebrated 28 August, the day of his death.

On August 28, Nami and Ahmed al-Haznawi reportedly bothered a Delray Beach resident, Maria Siscar Simpson, to let them through her apartment to retrieve a towel that had fallen off their balcony onto hers.

Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.

On August 28, 1963, a pair of US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft collided and crashed into the Atlantic.

The Bronze Star Medal was established by Executive Order 9419, 4 February 1944 ( superseded by Executive Order 11046, 24 August 1962, as amended by Executive Order 13286, 28 February 2003 ).

The stroke was followed by a heart attack, suffered in Gainesville, Florida, on August 28, 2007.

...", from the " I Have a Dream " speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D. C. on August 28, 1963.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

After starting the season 15 – 35, though, the team had some success later in the year, going a respectable 30 – 28 in August and September as the youngsters became more experienced.

The 2006 " Days of Syn " was on 26 – 28 August ( UK August Bank Holiday weekend ) and featured a talk on Dr. Syn at the Anglican church at 6: 30 p. m. On Sunday at 3 p. m. there was a church service where Dr. Syn and the cast appeared in period costume.

The American invasion of Quebec departed from Ticonderoga on August 28.

Edward Palmer Thompson ( 3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993 ) was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner.

Ezekiel is commemorated on August 28 on the Calendar of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

a 8 days ban from August 12, 1959 after the August 7 flood ( 八七水災 ), the last big flood before the 88 Taiwan Flood.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

In August 1959, Ben Gurley started design of the company's first computer, the PDP-1.

On August 26, 1959, Ike was aboard the maiden flight of Air Force One, which replaced the previous Presidential aircraft, the Columbine.

* Hawaii – August 21, 1959

During a visit to England he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked on August 29, 1959 ; however, before dinner at Chequers on the next day his doctor General Howard Snyder recalled Eisenhower " drank several gin and tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner ".

Explorer 6 on a Thor-Able | Thor-Able III launches in August 1959

* 1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.

He delivered his first Budget in August 1959 and his achievements included major reforms to the banking system ( originated by Fadden ) including the establishment of the Reserve Bank of Australiaand the planning and preparation for the introduction of decimal currency.

* 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U. S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania almost ten and a half months later ( see Flag Act ).

On August 15, 1959, she married John Blume whom she had met while a student at New York University ; the wedding was held in the summer of her sophomore year of college.

Kurt Walker ( born August 9, 1959 ), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper and record producer.

However, a new professional team in the area did not surface again until August 1959, when Minneapolis businessmen Bill Boyer, H. P. Skoglund, and Max Winter were awarded a franchise in the new American Football League ( AFL ).

* 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.

The first organizational meeting of the American Football League took place on August 14, 1959.

The fossil was published in Nature dated August 15, 1959, but due to a strike of the printers the issue was not released until September.

* Method and apparatus for forming semiconductor structures, filed August 1954, issued February 1959, assigned to Philco Corporation

In August 1959, the People's Liberation Army took an Indian prisoner at Longju, which had an ambiguous position in the McMahon Line, and two months later in Aksai Chin, a clash led to the death of nine Indian frontier policemen.

The University was established as a company in 1959, with a Royal Charter being granted on 16 August 1961.

* July 4 – Following the admission of the State of Hawaii as the 50th state in August 1959, the new 50-star Flag of the United States is first officially flown over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* August 12 – Cecil B. DeMille, American film director and producer ( d. 1959 )

* August 20 – Edgar Guest, English poet ( d. 1959 )

* August 19 – MacGillivray Milne, United States Navy Captain and the 27th Governor of American Samoa ( d. 1959 )