THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― AUGUST 28

August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

NATIONAL CHERRY TURNOVERS DAY  

1189 – The Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.

1524 – The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.

1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.

1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.

1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire.

1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.

1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.

1914 – World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

1924 – The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

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.

1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.

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 – 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 – Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

2004 – Software Freedom Day is established and is firstly observed.


TODAY'S BIRTHS

1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author, poet, playwright, and diplomat (d. 1832)

1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d. 1821)

1962 – David Fincher, American director and producer

From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.