Holidays on August 28, 2024: name days, signs

Today, August 28, is International Comic Book Public Reading Day. There are 125 days left before the New Year.

August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?

• World Comic Book Day.

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What happened on August 28

• 1797 – The United States agrees to pay a ransom to Tunisia to stop piracy against American ships in the Mediterranean.

• 1850 – The premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin takes place in Weimar.

• 1879 – after the end of the British-Zulu War in 1879, the British arrested the Zulu king Setshwayo and expelled him from Zululand.

• 1921 – 47 members of the TsUPK (Central Ukrainian Insurgent Committee) are shot in Kyiv, including Ivan Andrukh, co-founder of the Ukrainian Military District, and the military poet Grigory Chuprynka.

• 1924 – the August uprising of Georgians against Soviet power takes place.

• 1937 – Toyota is founded in the Empire of Japan.

• 1946 – The United States uses its veto on the admission to the UN of countries such as the Mongolian People’s Republic and the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania.

• 1963 – 200 thousand participants gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington to protest racial segregation and discrimination.

• 1988 – demonstration flights took place in the Federal Republic of Germany, where three Italian aircraft flying in a formation crashed over the American air base in Ramstein – the remains of the aircraft fell to the ground in a crowd by observers, which led to the death of 66 people.

• 1990 – Iraq declares annexation of Kuwait its 19th province, renames Kuwait’s capital city Kadima and creates a new urban area named after Saddam Hussein.

• 1996 – after 15 years of marriage and 4 years of separation, Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana were officially divorced by a London court.

• 1999 – the tallest building at that time opened in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur – two 88-story twin towers of the Petronas Towers shopping and business center, each 452 meters high.

Who was born on August 28

• 1922 – Maria Lisovskaya, Ukrainian writer.

• 2000 – Yulian Stupak, officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war, Hero of Ukraine (posthumously).

Whose birthday is today?: Vasily, Georgy, Ivan, Makar, Moses, Nikolay, Pavel, Sergey, Fedor, Anna.

Folk signs and traditions for August 28

• Rain, but no wind – bad weather will last a long time.

• The fog is spreading along the river – towards a clear day.

• The clouds are floating high – the weather will be clear and dry.

• A lot of fog – wait for a sunny day.

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