August 28[edit]

1964: Nimbus 1, the first weather satellite of the Nimbus program, was launched. It functioned for nearly a month, delivering information about cloud cover and temperature until a solar panel failure ended its mission.

1983: Hurricane Barry made landfall about 35 miles (56 km) south of the Texas border, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Hundreds of homes were destroyed, but no one was killed.

2012: Typhoon Bolaven struck the Korean Peninsula, killing 19 in South Korea and at least 59 in North Korea.