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IBM sells a most powerful and advanced server. //online.wsj.com/article/AP6b5ed9ae93e04080aa7781016ad5189d.html ("Wall Street Journal")

Iceland's Althing votes in favour of repaying more than US$5 billion owed to the governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom as a result of the collapse of the Icesave bank. //news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8226717.stm (BBC)

Tropical Storm Gustav makes landfall on the island of Jamaica. The storm is responsible for at least 51 deaths in Haiti and 8 more in the Dominican Republic. //www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/08/28/gustav/index.html (CNN)

September 7 – Hurricane Hanna kills seven in the United States, and 529 in Haiti, mostly due to deluges and mudslides.

A DNA test of John Mark Karr does not match the DNA found on the body of JonBenét Ramsey, and prosecutors in the U.S. state of Colorado say they will not charge Karr with murder. //www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/28/ramsey.arrest/index.html (CNN)

United Kingdom – "London blackout": A 34 minute power outage causes major disruptions in rail and Tube services in London and the South East when one of the National Grid circuits that feeds south London fails at about . //www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1101931,00.html

For the first time in history, religious and spiritual leaders of the world's diverse faith traditions came together in New York on August 28 to discuss how to forge a partnership of peace with the United Nations. //www.millenniumpeacesummit.com/news000725.html Religious Summit UN Millennium Peace Summit

Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London. Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled Diana, Princess of Wales.

U.S. President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore are renominated at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

A Russian Tupolev 154 jetliner crashes into a mountain as it approaches the airport at Spitsbergen, Norway, killing all 141 people on board.

A Serbian mortar bomb near a Sarajevo market square kills 38 civilians.

Ong Teng Cheong becomes the first President of Singapore elected by the population.

The Plainfield Tornado (F5 on the Fujita scale) strikes the towns of Plainfield, Crest Hill, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 29 people (the strongest tornado to date to strike the Chicago Metropolitan Area).

Seventy-five people are killed and 346 injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, "Frecce Tricolori", collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.

Josef Fritzl drugs and incarcerates his daughter Elisabeth in a secret cellar, in Amstetten, Austria she was released only after 24 years of sexual abuse and mental ordeal.

South African troops invade Angola.

The death toll of the previous day's IRA bombing reaches 5 when Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne, 83, dies in a hospital as a result of her injuries.

30 – Philadelphia 1964 race riot: Tensions between African American residents and police lead to 341 injuries and 774 arrests.

September ndash Marvel Comics releases the first-ever X-Men comic book

Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

United States Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) sets the record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill.

The last 6 surviving veterans of the American Civil War meet in Indianapolis.

The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named Joe 1. Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.

The Council of Europe meets for the first time.

WWII: King Boris III of Bulgaria dies under peculiar circumstances his 6-year-old son, Simeon II, ascends to the throne.

WWII: The Soviets announce the destruction of the massive Dnieper Riverdam at Zaporozhye, to prevent its capture by the Germans.

Lord Runciman's mission to mitigate the Sudetenland crisis begins to break down. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain recalls the British Ambassador Nevile Henderson from Berlin, to instruct Henderson to set up a personal meeting between Chamberlain and Hitler.

The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium.

Georgia rises against the Soviet Union in an abortive rebellion, in which several thousands die.

The Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia.

Hyperinflation in Germany has seen the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000.

Battle of Heligoland: British cruisers under Admiral Beatty sink 3 German cruisers.

Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I.

At least 512 are killed when a debris hill from the SumitomoBesshi copper mine at Niihama, Shikoku, Japan, collapses after heavy rain 122 houses, a smelting factory, hospital and many other facilities are destroyed.

Caleb Bradham names his soft drink "Pepsi-Cola".

August 30 ndash American Civil War ndash Second Battle of Bull Run: Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union General John Pope.

September 2 ndash The solar storm of 1859, the largest geomagnetic solar storm on record, causes the Northern lights to be visible as far south as Cuba and knocks out telegraph communication. (This is also called the Carrington event).

Matrimonial Causes Act makes divorce without parliamentary approval legally possible in the United Kingdom.ref name=CBH

September ndash Panic of 1857 begins: Speculation in U.S. railroad shares and collapse of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company trigger a financial crisis which will extend to Europe.

California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state.

Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres.

The New Mexico Territory is organized by order of the United States Congress.

Mathieu Luis becomes the first black member to join the French Parliament as a representative of Guadaloupe.

The journal "Scientific American" begins publication.

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx meet in Paris, France.

Castleknock College is founded by the Vincentian order in Dublin, Ireland.

Alexandria, Virginia, offers surrender to the British fleet without a fight.

Third Treaty of Basel between the French First Republic and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel.

William Herschel discovers Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.

The Prix de Rome Scholarship is established for students of the arts.

Severe frost in England.

Robert Hooke discovers that cork is made of tiny little rooms which he first calls Cells."Micrographia" (1665).

The first Maroon community arises in Suriname.

August ndash The governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, attacks the New Sweden (Delaware) colony.

New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bar colonial Jews from military service.

Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

August ndash Jamestown: Seven ships arrive at the colony, with 200–300 men, women, and children, reporting that the "Sea Venture" wrecked near Bermuda.

Henry Hudson is the first European to see Delaware Bay.

October ndash John Gerard, a Jesuit priest, escapes from the Tower of London.

September ndash Tycho Brahe leaves Rostock, where plague is spreading, and travels to Wandsbæk.

Battle of Chilcheollyang: The Japanese fleet defeats the Koreans. It is the only Japanese naval victory in the Imjin War.

The army of king Stefan Batory of Poland begins its siege of the Russian garrison of Pskov

September ndash A mercenary army of Sweden under Pontus De la Gardie captures Narva from Russia.

Summer "(probable)" ndash Yermak begins the Russian conquest of the Khanate of Sibir with a band of 1,636 men.

St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), is established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.

Ethiopia ndash Battle of Wofla: Reinforced with at least 600 arquebusiers and cavalry, ImamAhmad Gragn attacks the Portuguese c. The Portuguese are scattered Christovão da Gama is captured and executed.

Edward I of England unsuccessfully invades Flanders.

Battle of Isonzo: Theodoric defeats the overwhelming forces of Odoacer at Soča (near Aquileia), forcing his way into Italy.

Flavius Orestes takes control of the government at Ravenna and forces Julius Nepos to flee to Dalmatia. Unable to rule himself, he appoints his son Romulus Augustus.

Peter the Iberian founds a Georgian monastery near Bethlehem.

Augustine dies during the siege of Hippo Regius at age 75, leaving behind his monumental work "The City of God" and other works that will have influence on Christianity.

Saint Patrick reaches Ireland on his missionary expedition (approximate date).

Emperor Chandragupta II, ruler of the Gupta Empire, begins a war against the Shaka Dynasty in West India.

Isaac, age 50, is named "Catholicos" (spiritual head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Jerome moves to Palestine, where he spend the rest of his life as a hermit near Bethlehem.

Paternus becomes bishop of the Episcopal see of Braga (Portugal).

King Shapur III dies after a reign in which he has partitioned Armenia with the Roman Empire. He is succeeded by his son Bahram IV, who becomes the twelfth Sassanid king of Persia.

Magnus Maximus surrenders at Aquileia and is executed. Theodosius I devotes himself to gluttony and voluptuous living. Maximus' son Flavius Victor is executed at Trier by Valentinian's "magister militum" Arbogast.

A group of Christians storms the synagogue of the city Callinicum (Syria), at the Euphrates.