August 28th, 1954

Born on August 28th, 1954

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What happened on August 28th?

August 28th, 2021

The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line opens 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 first direct Presidential election in Singapore was held.

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; during the incident the hostages had bonded with their captors, 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

In tennis, 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.

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, the first American-built steam locomotive, engaged 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.

August 28th, 1640

Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.

August 28th, 1619

Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected Holy Roman Emperor.

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

Born on August 28th, 1954

69

George M. Church

Geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist

*August 28th, 1954, MacDill Air Force Base

69

Katharine Abraham

American feminist economist

*August 28th, 1954, Ames

69

María Rosa Yorio

Argentine painter and singer (born 1954)

*August 28th, 1954, Buenos Aires

69

Jozef Barmoš

Slovak footballer

*August 28th, 1954, Šurany

69

John Dorahy

Australian rugby league footballer and coach

*August 28th, 1954, Wollongong

69

Simo Nikolić

Yugoslavian-Bosnian football player

*August 28th, 1954, Brčko

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43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

*August 28th, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana †November 7th, 1910, Astapovo

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

73

Dietz-Otto Edzard

German Assyriologist

*August 28th, 1930, Bremen †June 2nd, 2004, Munich

80

Karl-Michael Vogler

German actor

*August 28th, 1928, Remscheid †June 9th, 2009, Seehausen am Staffelsee

65

Scott Hamilton

American figure skater

*August 28th, 1958, Bowling Green

49

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

*August 28th, 1797, Brzeg †August 1st, 1840, Athens

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

*August 28th, 1749, Frankfurt †March 22nd, 1832, Weimar

67

Eva Dick

German rower

*August 28th, 1956, Saarbrücken

61

David Fincher

American film director

*August 28th, 1962, Denver

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

91

Eckhard Müller-Mertens

German medievalist

*August 28th, 1923, Berlin †January 14th, 2015, Berlin

76

Liza Wang

Hong Kong entertainer and politician

*August 28th, 1947, Chongming County

79

José Eduardo dos Santos

President of Angola from 1979 to 2017

*August 28th, 1942, Luanda †July 8th, 2022, Barcelona

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

66

Roxie Roker

Bahamian–American actress (1929-1995)

*August 28th, 1929, Miami †December 2nd, 1995, Los Angeles

70

Carlos Mata

Venezuelan actor and singer

*August 28th, 1953, Valencia

66

Karin Binder

German politician

*August 28th, 1957, Stuttgart

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Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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