August 28 Historical Events
The following events took place on August 28. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 55 events. Showing 31 - 55.
- 1916World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
- 1916World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
- 1917Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
- 1924The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
- 1931France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
- 1937Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1943World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts.
- 1944World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
- 1953Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- 1955Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- 1957U.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.
- 1963March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
- 1963Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights.
- 1963The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US.
- 1964The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- 1968Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
- 1979An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels.
- 1988Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
- 1990Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1990An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
- 1996Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
- 1998Pakistan’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.
- 1998Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
- 2003An 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.
- 2004Software Freedom Day is established and is firstly observed.
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