August 28

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 28. From 1900 until now. August 28 is under the sign of Virgo. Famous birthdays on this day include Shania Twain (1965), Jack Black (1969) and Florence Welch (1986). Several movies were released around August 28 over the years, such as Room in 2015 directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Spotlight in 2015 directed by Tom McCarthy.
But much more happened on August 28 over the years: find out below

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Many Christian churches: feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Hong Kong: Liberation Day (1945)

Events

2018 A suspected improvised explosive device planted by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters explodes at a town festival in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, Philippines, killing two people and injuring 35 others. (Rappler)
2017 Syrian Civil War, Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon: Qalamoun offensive (July–August 2017): ISIL militants and their families, estimated to be around 600 people, begin to leave their strongholds on the Lebanon–Syria border and Qalamun Mountains for the Deir ez-Zor Governorate under Syrian military escort. A ceasefire was reached between warring parties yesterday. (Reuters)
2016 Moro conflict: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants break free supporters from a Marawi jail in the Philippines. (BBC)
2015 South Sudanese Civil War: Rebels and the Sudan People's Liberation Army trade accusations of violations of recently-signed peace accords. (Reuters)
2014 A Syrian tribe in Deir Ezzor province faces genocide from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and appeals for the world to help. (The Times)
2013 Moscow evacuates nationals; Iran dismisses "ridiculous" reports of Assad in Tehran; UN inspectors return to site of alleged chemical attack. (The Times Of Israel)
2012 Syrian civil war:
2011 At least 29 people are killed in an suicide bombing in Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque including Khalid al-Fahdawi, a member of the Council of Representatives of Iraq. (AP via Google News)
2010 Pakistan
2009 A suicide bomber lightly wounds Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, deputy interior minister of Saudi Arabia, in his Jeddah office. (Associated Press) (NY Times) (The Washington Post)
2008 September 7 – Hurricane Hanna kills seven in the United States, and 529 in Haiti, mostly due to deluges and mudslides.
2007 A total lunar eclipse takes place in the early morning hours across most of North America and the eastern Pacific Ocean region. (Canwest via Ottawa Citizen)
2006 A Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal, carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown killing five people including the driver, and several are seriously injured.
2005 Hurricane Katrina begins to make landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi in the afternoon, and brings the most severe damage to Slidell and New Orleans.
2004 In a video circulating on the Internet, former Texas lieutenant governor Ben F. Barnes apologizes for his role in getting current United States President George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard in 1968. (Chicago Sun-Times)
2003 In the USA, Brian Douglas Wells wears a time bomb explosive fastened to his neck, and dies. The event stands out as the most bizarre event in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
2000 For the first time in history, religious and spiritual leaders of the world's diverse faith traditions came together in New York on August 28 to discuss how to forge a partnership of peace with the United Nations. Religious Summit UN Millennium Peace Summit
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.
1997 Belgian amusement park riders were stuck upside down for 90 minutes
1996 Liam Botham takes 5-67 on 1st-class debut Hants vs. Middlesex
1995 A Bosnian Serb mortar bomb near a Sarajevo market square kills 37 civilians.
1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade
1993 Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed
1991 Lexington Ave IRT subway train derails at Union Square, 5 die
1990 Stefan Edberg (#1 seeded player) loses in 1st round to Alex Volkov
1989 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
1988 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley
1987 Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
1986 Bolivia President Victor Paz Estensoro calls state of siege
1984 Josef Fritzl drugs and incarcerates his daughter Elisabeth in a secret cellar, in Amstetten, Austria she was released only after 24 years of sexual abuse and mental ordeal.
1983 Mame closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 41 performances
1982 Sugar Babies closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 1208 performances
1981 Sebastian Coe of the UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)
1979 IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
1977 Bonnie Lauer wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
1976 New York Cosmos beat Seattle Sounders 2-1 for NASL cup.
1974 Soyuz 15 returns to Earth.
1973 Monster Mash goes gold
1968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
1967 Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt vs. Eng
1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
1964 US weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched
1963 Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens
1962 55.9 cm rainfall at Hackberry, Louisiana (state record)
1961 Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit, ''Please Mr. Postman'' by The Marvelettes.
1958 Nellie Fox sets record for consecutive games without striking out (98)
1957 US Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill.
1955 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Tournament
1953 Me & Juliet opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
1949 38th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared
1943 Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
1942 9th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 21, All-Stars 0 (101,100)
1941 8th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 37, All-Stars 13 (98,203)
1940 French colonies Cameroon / Congo-Brazzaville support General De Gaulle
1939 Monty becomes Commandant of 3rd Iron Infantry division
1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1933 US President Franklin Roosevelt issues Executive Order 6260, allowing exemptions to the gold ownership ban for up to $100, and for gold coins of recognized collector value.
1931 France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
1929 Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred
1926 Indian Emil Levsen pitches complete doubleheader victory (Red Sox)
1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1924 The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1922 1st Walker Cup: US beats England 8-4
1921 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
1919 General John Smuts becomes Premier of South Africa
1918 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on ump Tom Connolly
1917 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House
1916 World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1914 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German / Russian battles
1913 Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1911 45.7 cm rainfall at St. George, Georgia (state record)
1910 Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I.
1908 14th US Golf Open: Fred McLeod shoots a 322 at Myopia Hunt Club, Massachusetts
1907 United Parcel Service (UPS) is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
1901 Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. The first American private school in the country.
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