About August 28
August 28, 2020 is the 241st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 168 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 28
- 1789 –William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: German troops conquer Namur.
- 1914 –World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1964 –The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- 1968 –Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
- 1990 –Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1991 –Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 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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