THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 28
August 28 in history
What happened on August 28: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1830 and 1941, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Swing Riots
28 Aug 1830 — Labourers destroy a threshing machine near Canterbury, the first act of the Swing Riots. By winter some 2,000 protesters are tried; 19 are executed and about 480 transported to Australia.
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— Deportation of the Volga Germans
28 Aug 1941 — A decree accused the Volga Germans of hiding “thousands and tens of thousands of saboteurs and spies” and abolished their republic. About 440,000 people were deported east from its capital Engels and the Volga, part of some 900,000 Soviet Germans moved by 1942.
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