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 240^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 15, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,272,320 minutes 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 ‘dihectatetracontagon’ day.

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 173 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 4,633 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

August 28 Historical Events

• 663 –
  Silla–Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
• 1521 –
  The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
• 1916 –
  World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
• 1916 –
  World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
• 1931 –
  France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
• 1937 –
  Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
• 1953 –
  Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
• 1957 –
  U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
• 1990 –
  The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
• 2003 –
  An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London’s underground rail network to a halt.

Who were born on August 28?

• 1582 –
  Taichang Emperor, of the Ming Dynasty of China (d. 1620)
• 1910 –
  Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
• 1913 –
  Boris Pahor, Slovenian writer
• 1931 –
  John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
• 1931 –
  Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario and director
• 1932 –
  Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1952 –
  Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
• 1963 –
  Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
• 1975 –
  Jamie Cureton, English footballer
• 1979 –
  Robert Hoyzer, German football referee

Who died on August 28?

• 430 –
  Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
• 1678 –
  John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier (b. 1602)
• 1757 –
  David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
• 1793 –
  Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
• 1820 –
  Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (b. 1754)
• 1985 –
  Ruth Gordon, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1988 –
  Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
• 1993 –
  William Stafford, American poet (b. 1914)
• 2005 –
  Esther Szekeres, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1910)
• 2007 –
  Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)