What are the important events that happened on August 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 28: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 28 is the 241st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 15, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,112 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatetracontahenagon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 154 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,268 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 28 Historical Events
- 475 –The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
- 1810 –Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
- 1909 –A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
- 1914 –World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
- 1931 –France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
- 1943 –World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- 1968 –Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
- 1988 –Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
- 1990 –Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1991 –Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
Who were born on August 28?
- 1582 –Taichang Emperor, of the Ming Dynasty of China (d. 1620)
- 1801 –Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (d. 1877)
- 1898 –Charlie Grimm, American baseball player (d. 1983)
- 1905 –Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992)
- 1932 –Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1952 –Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
- 1962 –David Fincher, American music video and film director
- 1963 –Regina Jacobs, American athlete
- 1971 –Shane Andrews, American baseball player
- 1975 –Vera Jordanova, Finnish actress and model
Who died on August 28?
- 388 –Magnus Maximus, Roman usurper
- 430 –Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
- 1793 –Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
- 1900 –Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (b. 1838)
- 1972 –Prince William of Gloucester of the British Royal Family (b. 1941)
- 1976 –Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
- 1997 –Masaru Takumi, Japanese yakuza lord (b. 1936)
- 2005 –Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
- 2007 –Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
- 2007 –Nikola Nobilo, New Zealand winemaker (b. 1913)
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