August 28

• August 28, 388
  Magnus Maximus, West Roman Emperor, is executed
• August 28, 476
  The western Roman Empire formally ends as the barbarian general Odoacer deposes the last of the Roman emperors, the young boy Romulus Augustus, marking the end of ancient history and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Europe
• August 28, 1533
  Atahualpa, last of the Inca rulers, is strangled at the orders of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in spite of the chief has already paid his ransom
• August 28, 1664
  Four English warships under Colonel Richard Nicolls sails into New Amsterdam to take control of Brooklyn, a village of mostly English settlers
• August 12, 1676
  Indian chief King Philip, also known as Metacom, is killed by English soldiers, marking the end of the King Philip's War between Indians and colonists
• August 28, 1789
  William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
• August 28, 1789
  Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
• August 28, 1830
  Tom Thumb, the first American-built steam locomotive, loses the competition with horse-drawn car bearing passengers during test on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
• August 28, 1867
  United States occupy Midway Islands in the Pacific
• August 28, 1879
  Cetshwayo kaMpande, last of the great Zulu kings, is captured by the British at the end of the Zulu wars
• August 28, 1923
  The August Uprising in Georgia against Soviet rule begins
• August 28, 1937
  Toyota Motors becomes an independent company
• August 28, 1963
  Martin Luther King Jr, an American leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, gives his I have a dream speech at Lincoln Memorial before 250,000 civil rights supporters
• August 28, 1968
  152 police officers are wounded and about 101 civilians injuried during anti-war protests in Chicago
• August 28, 1996
  Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London

April 30

• April 30, 311
  Emperor Galerius issues an edict of toleration during his last bout of illness which ends the Diocletianic Great Persecution in Roman Empire
• April 30, 313
  Licinius, the Augustus in the east, defeat superior army of co-emperor Maximinus, who dresses like a slave and fleds to Nicomedia, in the Battle of Tzirallum, unifing the whole of the eastern empire under his own rule
• April 30, 535
  Amalaswintha, a queen of the Ostrogoths, is murdered
• April 30, 711
  The Islamic troops approximately 1,700-strong led by Berber commander Tariq ibn Ziyad cross the Strait of Gibraltar, named after him, and invade Iberian Peninsula
• April 30, 1006
  The brightest recorded supernova, the SN 1006, is recorded by Chinese and Islamic astronomers
• April 30, 1562
  First French colonist Jean Ribault and group of Hugenots found the outpost States at Parris Island in modern southeastern United
• April 30, 1661
  General Zheng Chenggong of Ming China known as Koxinga begins siege of Dutch fort Zeelandia, Formosa defended by 2,000 Dutch soldiers
• April 30, 1725
  Emperor Charles VI and King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna, which guarantees the Pragmatic Sanction of the Habsburgs
• April 30, 1789
  George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of USA, taking oath of office on alter Bible of Saint John's Masonic Lodge in New York City
• April 30, 1803
  The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million and doubles the size of the country by Louisiana Purchase Treaty
• April 30, 1828
  Shaka, one of the most influential monarchs of the Zulu Kingdom, is killed by three assassins
• April 30, 1838
  Nicaragua declares independence from Central American federation
• April 30, 1849
  Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian republican patriot and guerrilla leader, repulses a French attack on Rome
• April 30, 1888
  Hailstones kill about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi, India
• April 30, 1897
  Physicist Joseph John Thomson, who identified electrons using cathode rays, describes it as a particle of negative charge whose motion constitutes electricity at a meeting of the Royal Institution in London
• April 30, 1933
  Luis Miguel Sanchez Cerro, President of Peru, is assassinated by Hurtado de Mendoza, a member of the suppressed centre-left Peruvian political party
• April 30, 1945
  Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin when Soviet troops were within a block of the Reich Chancellery; Karl Donitz is appointed leader of Germany
• April 30, 1967
  Ostankino Tower, the highest tower in the world, 537 meters, is finished, in Moscow, USSR
• April 30, 1975
  The last group of Americans are evacuated from Saigon, South Vietnam, during North Vietnamese invasion, ending Vietnam War after the decade of fighting and lost 58,000 American soldiers
• April 30, 1993
  CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due

March 29

• March 29, 1461
  Edward IV secures his claim to the English throne in defeating Henry VI's Lancastrians at the battle of Towton in which about 28,000 are killed
• March 29, 1638
  The first permanent white settlement is established in Delaware by Swedish Lutherans who build the first log cabins in America
• March 29, 1673
  The English Parliament pass the Test Act, which excludes Roman Catholics from public functions
• March 29, 1792
  King Gustav III King of Sweden, dies of wounds from assassination attempt, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden succeeds
• March 29, 1849
  Britain formally annexes Punjab, the territories of modern-day eastern Pakistan and northern western India, after Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, signs away all claims to the rule of the Punjab
• March 29, 1873
  Puerto Rican government decrees the freedom of about 29,000 slaves and abolishes the slavery
• March 29, 1879
  Some 2,000 British and Colonial troops of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood repulse a major attack by 20,000 Zulu tribesmen at Kambula, Zululand, which becomes the turning point of the Anglo-Zulu War
• March 29, 1912
  Captain Robert Scott, blizzard-bound in a tent 18 km from the South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
• March 29, 1959
  Some Like It Hot, an American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, is released
• March 29, 1961
  After a 4.5-year trial, Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
• March 29, 1973
  The last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam
• March 29, 1974
  First close-up images of Mercury are taken by American robotic space probe Mariner 10
• March 29, 1976
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a drama film based on the novel by Ken Kesey, wins all five major Academy Awards, and along with five Golden Globe Awards, becomes the first to do this
• March 29, 1989
  I. M. Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris, France
• March 29, 2004
  The largest expansion of North Atlantic Treaty Organization to date takes place, allowing former Eastern Bloc countries Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia into the organization
• March 29, 2010
  Two female suicide bombers kill at least 41 people on Moscow metro trains, injuring 88 others, during the attack quickly blamed on the North Caucasus