About August 28
August 28, 2025 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.
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Virgo is the sun 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.
What Happened On August 28
- 475 –The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.
- 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.
- 1859 –A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.
- 1862 –American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.
- 1867 –The United States takes possession of the, at this point unoccupied, Midway Atoll.
- 1879 –Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
- 1909 –A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
- 1916 –World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
- 1924 –The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- 1931 –France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
- 1937 –Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1943 –World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- 1955 –Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- 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.
- 1996 –Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
- 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.
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