| 97681 | August 28 | Event | 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. |
| 97682 | August 28 | Event | 1943 – World War II: In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation starts. |
| 97683 | August 28 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated. |
| 97684 | August 28 | Event | 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement. |
| 97685 | August 28 | Event | 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. |
| 97686 | August 28 | Event | 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator. |
| 97687 | August 28 | Event | 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech |
| 97688 | August 28 | Event | 1963 – Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie are murdered in their Manhattan apartment, prompting the events that would lead to the passing of the Miranda Rights. |
| 97689 | August 28 | Event | 1963 – The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world, opens between Seattle and Medina, Washington, US. |
| 97690 | August 28 | Event | 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins. |
| 97691 | August 28 | Event | 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention. |
| 97692 | August 28 | Event | 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels. |
| 97693 | August 28 | Event | 1988 – Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured. |
| 97694 | August 28 | Event | 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. |
| 97695 | August 28 | Event | 1990 – An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. |
| 97696 | August 28 | Event | 1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce. |
| 97697 | August 28 | Event | 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate. |
| 97698 | August 28 | Event | 1998 – Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa. |
| 97699 | August 28 | Event | 2003 – An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt. |
| 97700 | August 28 | Event | 2004 – Software Freedom Day is established and is firstly observed. |
| 97701 | August 28 | Birth | 1023 – Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (d. 1068) |
| 97702 | August 28 | Birth | 1582 – Taichang Emperor of China (d. 1620) |
| 97703 | August 28 | Birth | 1592 – George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (d. 1628) |
| 97704 | August 28 | Birth | 1612 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and scholar (d. 1653) |
| 97705 | August 28 | Birth | 1667 – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (d. 1721) |
| 97706 | August 28 | Birth | 1691 – Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1750) |
| 97707 | August 28 | Birth | 1694 – Charlotte Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1715) |
| 97708 | August 28 | Birth | 1714 – Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (d. 1774) |
| 97709 | August 28 | Birth | 1728 – John Stark, American general (d. 1822) |
| 97710 | August 28 | Birth | 1739 – Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer (d. 1818) |