August 28

The Second Zionist Congress convened in Basel, where women were first seated as voting delegates and the Jewish Colonial Trust was founded.

Augustine, bishop of Hippo and author of the 'Confessions' and 'City of God', died during the Vandal siege of his city.

The German Egyptologist Georg Steindorff, a scholar of Coptic and excavator at Giza and Aniba, died in 1951.

Swami Chidananda Saraswati, president of the Divine Life Society at Rishikesh, died on 28 August 2008.

Geshe Lhundub Sopa, a Tibetan scholar-monk and longtime professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Wisconsin, died in Oregon, Wisconsin.

Using his great forty-foot reflector at Slough, William Herschel spotted Enceladus, a small bright moon of Saturn now known for its icy jets of water vapor.