August 28th, 1961

Born on August 28th, 1961

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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

Born on August 28th, 1961

64

Jennifer Coolidge

American actress (born 1961)

*August 28th, 1961, Boston

64

Stefan Arndt

German film producer

*August 28th, 1961, Munich

Same year
Born in 1961

64

Barack Obama

President of the United States from 2009 to 2017

*August 4th, 1961, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children

65

Erna Solberg

Prime Minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021

*February 24th, 1961, Bergen

65

Lothar Matthäus

German association football player, manager, and pundit (born 1961)

*March 21st, 1961, Erlangen

64

Joe Lando

American actor

*December 9th, 1961, Prairie View

65

Steven Weber

American actor (1961-)

*March 4th, 1961, Briarwood

64

Olaug Bollestad

Norwegian politician

*November 4th, 1961, Strand Municipality

64

Kristin Krohn Devold

Norwegian politician

*August 12th, 1961, Ålesund Municipality

65

Knut Nærum

Norwegian comedian and author

*March 3rd, 1961, Arendal

65

Hermann Gröhe

German politician

*February 25th, 1961, Uedem

64

Thomas von Heesen

German association football player and manager

*October 1st, 1961, Höxter

65

Ingrid Arndt-Brauer

German politician

*March 20th, 1961, Marburg

65

Michael Meister

German politician

*June 9th, 1961, Lorsch

65

Hans-Georg von der Marwitz

German politician

*April 8th, 1961, Heidelberg

64

Julia Gillard

Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013

*September 29th, 1961, Barry

65

Joko Widodo

Indonesia's President (2014–2024)

*June 21st, 1961, Surakarta

36

Diana, Princess of Wales

Member of the British royal family and Princess of Wales (1961–1997)

*July 1st, 1961, Sandringham †August 31st, 1997, Paris

65

Eddie Murphy

American actor

*April 3rd, 1961, Brooklyn

64

Arundhati Roy

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

*November 24th, 1961, Shillong

65

Dirk Heidenblut

German politician

*April 21st, 1961, Essen

64

Nadia Comăneci

Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist

*November 12th, 1961, Onești

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1961 is a normal year and no leap year.

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