August 28th (1955) was a Sunday. It's the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 125 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 28th August, 1955
» African American or Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
August 28th Famous Deaths for 1955
» Emmett Till, American murder victim (b. 1941)
August 28th Holidays in History
» Assumption of Mary (Eastern Orthodox Church, a public holiday in the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Georgia (country) known as Georgia)
» Christian Calendar of saints named Feast Day:
» Augustine of Hippo
» Saint Hermes
» Moses the Black (Episcopal Church (USA), Lutheran Church)