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
- 1521 –The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
- 1609 –Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- 1810 –Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
- 1830 –The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US railroading.
- 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.
- 1901 –Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
- 1909 –A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
- 1913 –Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
- 1917 –Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
- 1924 –The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- 1943 –World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
- 1953 –Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- 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 –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.
- 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.
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