August 28th, 1965

Born on August 28th, 1965

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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, 1965

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

58

Amanda Tapping

English-born Canadian actress

*August 28th, 1965, Rochford

58

Sonia Kruger

Australian television presenter and media personality

*August 28th, 1965, Toowoomba

58

Satoshi Tajiri

Japanese video game designer

*August 28th, 1965, Setagaya-ku

58

Vivi Kreutzberger

Chilean television presenter

*August 28th, 1965, Santiago

58

Andrés Cea Galán

Spanish organ expert and writer

*August 28th, 1965, Jerez de la Frontera

58

Mirosław Dreszer

Polish footballer

*August 28th, 1965, Tychy

58

Dan Crowley

Australian rugby union player

*August 28th, 1965, Brisbane

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43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

57

Christophe Galtier

French association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1966, Marseille

59

Antje Tillmann

German politician

*August 28th, 1964, Düsseldorf

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

49

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

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

61

David Fincher

American film director

*August 28th, 1962, Denver

73

Dietz-Otto Edzard

German Assyriologist

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

55

Billy Boyd

Scottish actor and musician

*August 28th, 1968, Glasgow

80

Karl-Michael Vogler

German actor

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

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

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

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

65

Scott Hamilton

American figure skater

*August 28th, 1958, Bowling Green

54

Sheryl Sandberg

American technology executive, activist, and author

*August 28th, 1969, Washington, D.C.

59

Annette Focks

German composer

*August 28th, 1964, Thuine

55

Ján Svorada

Czech cyclist

*August 28th, 1968, Trenčín

62

Jennifer Coolidge

American actress

*August 28th, 1961, Boston

61

Francisco Camps

Spanish politician

*August 28th, 1962, Valencia

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Born in 1965

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

58

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

58

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

59

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

58

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen

Danish badminton player and administrator

*September 20th, 1965, Esbønderup

58

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

58

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

59

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

58

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

58

Karin Beier

German theatre director

*December 14th, 1965, Cologne

58

Gunnar Beck

German EU lawyer and legal philosopher

*May 1st, 1965, Düsseldorf

59

Inger Lise Hegge

Norwegian cross-country skier

*January 6th, 1965, Steinkjer Municipality

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

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

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

58

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

59

Sven Demandt

German footballer

*February 13th, 1965, Cologne

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

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

59

Zhao Jianhua

Badminton player

*April 21st, 1965, Nantong

58

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

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

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