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Events on Saturday 28 August 1943 1
1894 – 1943Boris III of Bulgaria (1894-1943)Died 28 August 1943, aged 49Boris III was tsar of Bulgaria from 1918, and he aligned his country with the Axis. He refused to deport Bulgaria's Jews to German death camps. He died suddenly soon after a stormy meeting with Hitler.