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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.

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

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