Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. Date: August 28, 1917 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1917 📅 On This Day (Today)
Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine. Date: August 28, 1921 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1921 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union. Date: August 28, 1924 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1924 📅 On This Day (Today)
Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps. Date: August 28, 1936 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1936 📅 On This Day (Today)
Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. Date: August 28, 1937 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1937 📅 On This Day (Today)
Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark. Date: August 28, 1943 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1943 📅 On This Day (Today)
World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated. Date: August 28, 1944 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1944 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Workers' Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang, North Korea. Date: August 28, 1946 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1946 📅 On This Day (Today)
Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement. Date: August 28, 1955 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1955 📅 On This Day (Today)
U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later. This would remain the longest speech ever conducted by a single Senator until Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, beginning on…