August 28th, 1950

Born on August 28th, 1950

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What happened on August 28th, 1950?

August 28th, 1950

American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.

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What else happened on August 28th?

August 28th, 1413

The University of St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, was founded when Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small founding group of Augustinian clergy.

August 28th, 1916

A confrontation at Blargies prison camp in France led to a charge of mutiny for New Zealand private John Braithwaite, for which he was later executed.

August 28th, 2021

The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.

August 28th, 2003

A pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed during a complex bank robbery when a bomb that was locked around his neck exploded.

August 28th, 1993

The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).

August 28th, 1987

Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.

August 28th, 1973

Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; the hostages had bonded with their captors during the incident, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.

August 28th, 1963

American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

August 28th, 1955

African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.

August 28th, 1914

In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships ambushed a German naval patrol in the Heligoland Bight (pictured).

August 28th, 1909

The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.

August 28th, 1833

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, received royal assent.

August 28th, 1830

Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, took part in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.

August 28th, 1789

William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 28th

Born on August 28th, 1950

61

Ricardo Ibarra

Argentine rower

*August 28th, 1950, Buenos Aires †December 15th, 2011

75

Roberto Appratto

Uruguayan author

*August 28th, 1950, Montevideo

75

Ron Guidry

American baseball player and coach

*August 28th, 1950, Lafayette

75

Anant Mahadevan

Indian actor

*August 28th, 1950, Thrissur

Same year
Born in 1950

76

Billy Currie

British multi-instrumentalist

*April 1st, 1950, Huddersfield

67

Jeff Lowe

American mountain climber

*September 13th, 1950, Ogden †August 24th, 2018, Colorado

75

Narendra Modi

14th Prime Minister of India

*September 17th, 1950, Vadnagar

75

Annette Badland

English actress (born 1950)

*August 26th, 1950, Edgbaston

76

Stevie Wonder

American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)

*May 13th, 1950, Saginaw

66

Martin McGuinness

Sinn Féin politician and deputy First Minister (1950-2017)

*May 23rd, 1950, Derry †March 21st, 2017, Altnagelvin Area Hospital

66

Sandra Reemer

Dutch singer and presenter (1950–2017)

*October 17th, 1950, Bandung †June 6th, 2017, Amsterdam

75

Rainer Arnold

German politician

*June 21st, 1950, Stuttgart

76

Rötger Feldmann

German comic artist

*March 17th, 1950, Travemünde

75

Ed Harris

American actor and director (born 1950)

*November 28th, 1950, Englewood

75

Harriet Walter

British actress (born 1950)

*September 24th, 1950, London

76

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

67

Horace Burrell

Jamaican sports executive (1950–2017)

*February 8th, 1950, Clarendon Parish †June 6th, 2017, Kingston

76

William Sadler

American actor

*April 13th, 1950, Buffalo

76

Rick Perry

14th United States Secretary of Energy

*March 4th, 1950, Haskell

76

William H. Macy

American actor

*March 13th, 1950, Miami

75

Abdullah Gül

11th President of Turkey

*October 29th, 1950, Kayseri

76

Debbie Allen

American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and dancer

*January 16th, 1950, Houston

76

Bobby McFerrin

American jazz vocalista and composer

*March 11th, 1950, Manhattan

75

Martine Aubry

French politician (born 1950)

*August 8th, 1950, Paris

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No: With 365 days 1950 is a normal year and no leap year.

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