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 240th 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, 487,872 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 ‘dihectatetracontagon’ 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 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.
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August 28 Historical Events
- 489 –Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
- 1542 –Turkish-Portuguese War (1538-1557) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
- 1609 –Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- 1640 –Second Bishop’s War: King Charles I’s English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
- 1845 –The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
- 1963 –Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan flat, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights.
- 1963 –March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
- 1979 –An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
- 1991 –Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1998 –Pakistan’s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur'an and Sunnah” the “supreme law” but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
Who were born on August 28?
- 1884 –Peter Fraser, former Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1950)
- 1903 –Bruno Bettelheim, American psychologist (d. 1990)
- 1906 –John Betjeman, English poet (d. 1984)
- 1935 –Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
- 1941 –Paul Plishka, American opera singer
- 1941 –Sybille de Selys Longchamps, Belgian aristocrat
- 1943 –Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
- 1957 –Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia
- 1972 –Jay Witasick, American baseball player
- 1980 –Debra Lafave, American former teacher and convicted sex offender
Who died on August 28?
- 430 –Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
- 1903 –Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (b. 1822)
- 1943 –Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (b. 1894)
- 1987 –John Huston, American movie director (b. 1906)
- 1988 –Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
- 1990 –Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1913)
- 2003 –Brian Douglas Wells, American criminal (failed) (b. 1956)
- 2007 –Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
- 2009 –Wayne Tippit, American actor (b. 1932)
- 2010 –William P. Foster, American band director and educator (b. 1919)
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