History today August 28: Notable events that took place on August 28

Domestic events taking place on August 28

August 28, 1941:Revolutionary activist Nguyen Huu Tien was executed by the French in Hoc Mon, former Gia Dinh province. He was the one who drew the red flag with yellow star, which first appeared in the Nam Ky uprising on November 23, 1940.

August 28, 1941:At Ba Diem, Hoc Mon, the French colonialists executed the following comrades: Nguyen Van Cu - General Secretary of the Party; Nguyen Thi Minh Khai - Member of the Southern Regional Party Committee, Secretary of the Saigon City Party Committee; Phan Dang Luu - Member of the Party Central Committee; Vo Van Tan - Member of the Party Central Committee.

August 28, 1945:The first two liberation army units entered Hanoi. The first parade of the revolutionary army had many different styles and colors of clothing, and rudimentary weapons, but was admired and warmly welcomed by the people of Hanoi.

August 28, 1945:The Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, headed by President Ho Chi Minh, issued a Proclamation to the people and the world on the establishment of the Government of the new Vietnam. That was also the day marking the birth of the Office apparatus to assist administrative agencies at all levels. To commemorate this event, on July 22, 2004, the Prime Minister decided to choose August 28 every year as the Traditional Day of the Office of State Administrative Agencies.

August 28, 1949:The 308th Division (now the 308th Division) - the first main division of the Vietnam People's Army - was established in Du town, Phu Luong district, Thai Nguyen province. The birth of the 308th Division was a historical milestone, marking the remarkable growth of our Army.

International events taking place on August 28

August 28, 1055:Da Luat Hong Co became the 8th emperor of the Liao Dynasty, namely Liao Dao Tong.

August 28, 1749:It is the birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was born into a wealthy family in the city of Frankfurt on the Main River (Germany) and died in 1832.

August 28, 1789:Using the world's largest telescope at the time, astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn's moon Enceladus for the first time.

August 28, 1818:It is the birthday of Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev - a famous Russian realist writer. He brought to Russian literature and Russian novels a lyrical, romantic and noble poetic style in the years 1840-1870. He made great contributions to the development of the Russian literary language in the 19th century. He died on September 2, 1883.

August 28, 1828:It is the birthday of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, he is the great writer of Russia and the world.

August 28, 1895:It is the day of death of Louis Pasteur. He was born in 1822 in Jura, France. Pasteur studied at the Bedanson high school before being admitted to the Paris Normal School in 1843. A doctor of physics and chemistry, he became famous when he published a scientific report on crystallography. From 1862, he focused on microbiology. His studies on rabies caused fierce debates and led to the preparation of a rabies vaccine, making him even more famous in the world.

August 28, 1898:Caleb Bradham invented a carbonated drink that later became known as Pepsi-Cola.

August 28, 1963:Civil rights activist Martin Luther King delivers his I Have a Dream speech in Washington, DC, USA (pictured).

August 28, 1937:Toyoda Kiichirō founded an independent automobile company called Toyota, one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world.

August 28, 1973:The end of the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis in Stockholm, Sweden. The hostages' behavior later gave rise to the term Stockholm Syndrome.

August 28, 1979:It is the death anniversary of Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, who was born in 1915 in Betrograd (Russia) and was a famous Soviet writer, poet, and playwright.

August 28, 2011:Hurricane Irene struck the East Coast of the United States, killing 47 people and causing $15.6 billion in damage.