August 28th, 1951

Born on August 28th, 1951

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What 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, 1950

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

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

Same year
Born in 1951

74

John McDonnell

British Labour politician (born 1951)

*September 8th, 1951, Liverpool

75

Jesse Ventura

American professional wrestler and 38th governor of Minnesota (born 1951)

*July 15th, 1951, Minneapolis

75

Ellen Foley

American singer and actress

*June 5th, 1951, St. Louis

63

Robin Williams

American actor and comedian (1951–2014)

*July 21st, 1951, Chicago †August 11th, 2014, Tiburon

75

Agathe Fontain

Greenlandic politician

*June 9th, 1951, Sisimiut

65

Kaci Kullmann Five

Norwegian politician (1951-2017)

*April 13th, 1951, Oslo †February 19th, 2017, Oslo

65

Gilbert Baker

American artist and gay rights activist

*June 2nd, 1951, Chanute †March 31st, 2017, New York City

75

Horst Hrubesch

German association football player and manager

*April 17th, 1951, Hamm

71

Joachim Streich

German association football player and manager

*April 13th, 1951, Wismar †April 16th, 2022, Leipzig

74

Volker Bouffier

German politician (CDU), Minister President of Hesse

*December 18th, 1951, Giessen

75

Geoffrey Rush

Australian actor (born 1951)

*July 6th, 1951, Toowoomba

75

Cajus Julius Caesar

German politician

*January 22nd, 1951, Rinteln

70

Hans-Jürgen Dörner

East German football player and long-term coach of national junior football teams (1951–2022)

*January 25th, 1951, Görlitz †January 19th, 2022, Dresden

74

Michelle Bachelet

President of Chile

*September 29th, 1951, La Cisterna

74

Juan Manuel Santos

Former president of Colombia

*August 10th, 1951, Bogotá

74

Louis van Gaal

Dutch footballer and manager (born 1951)

*August 8th, 1951, Amsterdam

65

Věra Špinarová

Czech singer (1951–2017)

*December 22nd, 1951, Pohořelice †March 26th, 2017, Prague

75

Otto Hünnerkopf

German politician

*March 14th, 1951, Wiesentheid

74

Edie McClurg

American comedian and actress

*July 23rd, 1951, Kansas City

75

Ben Feringa

Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

*May 18th, 1951, Barger-Compascuum

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1951 is a normal year and no leap year.

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