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.
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
- 1189 –Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
- 1521 –The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
- 1943 –World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- 1944 –World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
- 1963 –March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
- 1968 –Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
- 1979 –An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
- 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.
- 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?
- 1814 –Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
- 1905 –Cyril Walters, England cricketer (d. 1992)
- 1924 –Janet Frame, New Zealand author (d. 2004)
- 1940 –Roger Pingeon, French cyclist
- 1943 –Lou Piniella, American baseball manager
- 1952 –Jacques Chagnon, Canadian politician
- 1965 –Shania Twain, Canadian singer
- 1978 –Jess Margera, American drummer (CKY)
- 1979 –Kristen Hughes, Australian netballer
- 1986 –Jeff Green, American basketball player
Who died on August 28?
- 430 –Augustine of Hippo, North African saint and theologian (b. 354)
- 1793 –Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (executed) (b. 1740)
- 1805 –Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (b. 1722)
- 1839 –William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769)
- 1971 –Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (b. 1889)
- 1978 –Robert Shaw, English actor and writer (b. 1927)
- 1988 –Jean Marchand, French Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918)
- 1997 –Masaru Takumi, Japanese yakuza lord (b. 1936)
- 2007 –Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. 1935)
- 2008 –Phil Hill, American race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1927)
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