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, 1,756,339,200 seconds 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
- 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.
- 1789 –William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
- 1901 –Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
- 1916 –World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
- 1917 –Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
- 1937 –Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1955 –Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- 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.
- 1968 –Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
Who were born on August 28?
- 1924 –Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer
- 1931 –Tito Capobianco, Argentinian stage impresario and director
- 1935 –Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
- 1948 –Heather Reisman, Canadian businesswoman
- 1951 –Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
- 1957 –Ivo Josipovic, President of Croatia
- 1961 –Kim Appleby, English singer
- 1965 –Satoshi Tajiri, founder of Game Freak
- 1974 –Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
- 1991 –Andrej Pejic, Australian model
Who died on August 28?
- 1645 –Hugo Grotius, Dutch philosopher and writer (b. 1583)
- 1784 –Junípero Serra, Spanish missionary (b. 1713)
- 1793 –Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
- 1805 –Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
- 1975 –Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- 1976 –Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
- 1988 –Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
- 1997 –Masaru Takumi, Japanese yakuza lord (b. 1936)
- 2007 –Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
- 2011 –Bernie Gallacher, British footballer (Aston Villa) (b. 1967)
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