August 28th, 1965

Born on August 28th, 1965

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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, 1965

60

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

60

Amanda Tapping

English-born Canadian actress

*August 28th, 1965, Rochford

60

Vivi Kreutzberger

Chilean television presenter

*August 28th, 1965, Santiago

60

Sonia Kruger

Australian television presenter and media personality

*August 28th, 1965, Toowoomba

Same year
Born in 1965

61

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

61

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

61

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

*July 23rd, 1965, Freiberg †June 24th, 2019, Dresden

60

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

60

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

61

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

60

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

60

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

60

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

60

Bastian Sick

German journalist

*July 17th, 1965, Lübeck

60

Gero Miesenböck

Austrian neuroscientist

*July 15th, 1965, Braunau am Inn

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

German novelist, painter, and illustrator (1965-2013)

*June 12th, 1965, Hamburg †August 26th, 2013, Berlin

60

Shah Rukh Khan

Indian actor, producer and television personality

*November 2nd, 1965, New Delhi

61

Brooke Shields

American actress (born 1965)

*May 31st, 1965, Manhattan

60

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

60

Winfried Bausback

German politician

*October 22nd, 1965, Aschaffenburg

60

Salman Khan

Indian actor and producer (born 1965)

*December 27th, 1965, Indore

60

Petro Poroshenko

5th President of Ukraine

*September 26th, 1965, Bolhrad

60

Laurent Blanc

French association football player and manager

*November 19th, 1965, Alès

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1965 is a normal year and no leap year.

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