About August 28
August 28, 2024 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.
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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 154 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.
- 489 –Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
- 1521 –The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
- 1619 –Ferdinand II is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1789 –William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
- 1845 –The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
- 1849 –After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
- 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.
- 1901 –Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1968 –Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
- 1979 –An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.
- 1990 –Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1990 –The Plainfield Tornado: an F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
- 1991 –Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 1991 –Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
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