About the day » Tuesday August 28, 1877Calender converter

• Abelina Kamp, Garnwerd,gem. Ezinge
• Albert de Monti, Château-Thébaud, Loire-Atlantique
• Amelia "Amalie" "Emma" Wingerter, Apple Creek, Missouri († 1962)
• Adeline J. Ecker, Chicago 1900 Federal Census of Chicago († 1962)
• Aartje WEMMERS, BLESKENSGRAAF EN HOFWEGEN,,Nederland († 1956)
• Aaltje den Besten, Oosteinde (Nunspeet) († 1878)
• Aaltje Bosch, Hellendoorn († 1915)
• Adrianus Cornelis Mudde, Krimpen aan de Lek
• Alice Lewis, Morton, Scott, Mississippi († 1973)
• Aaltje Cornelia de Kruijf, Utrecht {UT} († 1897)

• Aaltjen Flipsborg (11), Elsen, gemeente Markelo
• Alberdina Buiskool, (GR) Beerta
• Anna Katharina Otterbein (27), Großenlüder, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Albert Bosman (0), Wilsum, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Gemmert (0), Wateringen
• Albertina Charlee, Leiden South Holland Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Voeten (59), Rijsbergen
• Aron Samuel Samuel (0), wierden
• Adriana Maria Grundeken (0), Wassenaar
• Ardina Kuijpers (50), Helmond

• 1859 » Matilda Howell, American archer († 1938)
• 1867 » Umberto Giordano, Italian composer and academic († 1948)
• 1878 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1884 » Peter Fraser, Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1950)
• 1885 » Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic († 1959)
• 1887 » August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet († 1973)
• 1887 » István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician († 1922)
• 1888 » Evadne Price, Australian actress, astrologer, and author († 1985)
• 1891 » Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer († 1984)
• 1894 » Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director († 1981)

• 1818 » Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (b. 1750)
• 1820 » Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (b. 1754)
• 1839 » William Smith, English geologist and engineer (b. 1769)
• 1888 » Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1835)
• 1891 » Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (b. 1814)
• 1900 » Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1903 » Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (b. 1822)
• 1919 » Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (b. 1872)
• 1934 » Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (b. 1858)
• 1937 » George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (b. 1854)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Catharina
7. Adriana
8. Wilhelmina
9. Hendrika
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Trijntje
13. Neeltje
14. Jacoba
15. Antje
16. Petronella

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
• July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
• July 21 » After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
• September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
• December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.

The temperature on August 28, 1877 was about 18.7 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%.