August 28:
2003 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device
1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate
1968 – Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching"
1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads
August 29:
1997 – Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service
1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
1958 – United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1916 – The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act
1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California
1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded in Akron, Ohio
1869 – The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway
1831 – Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
1786 – Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens
