Today in History for 28th August 2026

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Historical Events

1913 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, an international law administrative building housing the Permanent Court of Arbitration
1967 - Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make a 190-run stand for the 9th wicket against England
1977 - NY Yankee Ron Guidry faces just 28 batters in 1-0 win over Texas Rangers
2009 - Noel Gallagher, the guitarist of the British pop-rock band Oasis, quits the band, citing an inability to be with his brother Liam
2017 - North Korea launches a missile that flies over Japan, and the country's J-Alert warning system warns people to take cover

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Famous Birthdays

1828 - William Alexander Hammond, American military physician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Annapolis, Maryland (d. 1900)
1892 - Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher, American architect (Parkway House), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1975)
1915 - Max Robertson, British sports commentator (BBC Radio), born in Dacca, Bengal (d. 2009)
1966 - Jerry Fehily, Irish drummer (Hothouse Flowers - "Don't Go"; "Thing Of Beauty"), born in Cork, Ireland
1970 - Rick Recht, Jewish-American rock singer-songwriter ("Tear Down The Walls"), born in St. Louis, Missouri

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Famous Deaths

1798 - James Wilson, One of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, dies at 55
1927 - Li Dazhao [Ta-chao], Chinese intellectual, revolutionary and co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party with Chen Duxiu, executed as a political prisoner at 37
1937 - Frederick Burr Opper, American pioneering cartoonist (Happy Hooligan), dies at 80
2013 - Rob du Bois, Dutch composer, dies at 79
2025 - Randy Boone, American actor (Cimarron Strip, The Virginian), dies at 83

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