August 28th

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The August 28 is the 240th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 241st in leap years ), thus remain 125 days by year end.

Historic anniversaries
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22nd 23 24 25th 26th 27 28
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events

Politics and world events

1521: Conquest of Belgrade
1879: King Cetshwayo kaMpande
1913: Peace Palace opened
1963: Martin Luther King giving his speech

business

science and technology
1789: Saturn moon Enceladus
1993: Asteroid Ida with moon Dactyl

Culture
1981: The Old Opera

society

  • 1700: The local festival Gronings Ontzet begins every year in Groningen , which commemorates the siege and liberation of 1672.
  • 1955: 14-year-old black Emmett Till is mistreated and murdered by Roy Bryant and JW Millam for allegedly whistling after a white woman. The later acquittal of the perpetrators leads to mass protests, which are considered to be the beginning of the US civil rights movement .
  • 1984: The Amstetten criminal case begins. The perpetrator lures his daughter into the basement and keeps her captive for more than 24 years for sexual reasons.
  • 1996: Prince Charles and Diana of Wales get divorced.

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

  • Emperor Taichang (* 1582)

  • George Villiers (* 1592)

  • Maria Mancini (* 1639)

  • Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (* 1691)

18th century

  • Andreas Peter von Bernstorff (* 1735)

  • Amalie von Gallitzin (* 1748)

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (* 1749)

  • Stéphanie de Beauharnais (* 1789)

19th century

1801-1850

  • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (* 1814)

  • Lev Tolstoy (* 1828)

  • Lucy Hayes (* 1831)

  • Albert Böhler (* 1845)

1851-1900

  • Vladimir Schuchow (* 1853)

  • Gustav Richard Fischer (* 1862)

  • Ernst White (* 1882)

  • Peter Fraser (* 1884)

20th century

1901-1925

  • Robert Merle (* 1908)

  • Tjalling Koopmans (* 1910)

  • Joseph Luns (* 1911)

1926-1950

  • José Eduardo dos Santos (* 1942)

  • Henning Schulte-Noelle (* 1942)

  • David Soul (born 1943)

  • Bruno Nuytten (* 1945)

1951-1975

  • Daniel Stern (* 1957)

  • Scott Hamilton (born 1958)

  • Leroy Chiao (* 1960)

  • Emma Samms (* 1960)

  • Amanda Tapping (* 1965)

  • Jack Black (* 1969)

  • Jason Priestley (* 1969)

  • Carsten Jancker (* 1974)

1976-2000

  • Kelly Overton (* 1978)

  • Carly Pope (* 1980)

  • Petra Schmidt-Schaller (* 1980)

  • Lilli Schwarzkopf (* 1983)

21st century

Died

Before the 17th century

  • K'inich Janaab 'Pakal I († 683)

  • Heinrich II, Duke of Bavaria († 995)

  • Alfonso V of Portugal († 1481)

  • Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg († 1593)

17th and 18th centuries

  • Hugo Grotius († 1645)

  • Axel Oxenstierna († 1654)

  • Karl I. Ludwig, Elector Palatinate († 1680)

  • Adam-Philippe de Custine († 1793)

19th century

  • Ernst Anton Nicolai († 1802)

  • Christian Frähn († 1851)

  • Friedrich Joseph Haass († 1853)

  • Eilhard Mitscherlich († 1863)

20th century

1901-1950

  • Hannah Chaplin († 1928)

  • Hassan Mostofi († 1932)

  • Belisario Porras Barahona († 1942)

  • Boris III, Tsar of Bulgaria († 1943)

1951-2000

  • Raphael Lemkin († 1959)

  • Peter Altmeier († 1977)

  • Muhammad Nagib († 1984)

  • Ruth Gordon († 1985)

21st century

  • Peter Hacks († 2003)

  • Günter Kießling († 2009)

  • Mireille Darc († 2017)

  • Chadwick Boseman († 2020)

Holidays and memorial days

  • Church memorial days

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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