📜 This Day in History
August 28
475Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.- 1640Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
- 1909The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.
- 1955African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
- 1987Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.
- 2021The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.
