August 28th, 1966

Born on August 28th, 1966

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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, 1966

57

Christophe Galtier

French association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1966, Marseille

57

Julen Lopetegui

Spanish Basque footballer and manager

*August 28th, 1966, Asteasu

57

Michele Padovano

Italian footballer

*August 28th, 1966, Turin

57

Priya Dutt

Indian politician

*August 28th, 1966, Mumbai

57

Yoko Takahashi

Japanese singer (1966-)

*August 28th, 1966, Tokyo

57

Fabián Alegre

Argentinian association football manager

*August 28th, 1966, Ezpeleta

53

Delphine Forest

French actress

*August 28th, 1966, 16th arrondissement of Paris †January 31st, 2020, 8th arrondissement of Paris

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Who's birthday is on August 28th?

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

49

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

55

Billy Boyd

Scottish actor and musician

*August 28th, 1968, Glasgow

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

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

24

Luna

Polish singer

*August 28th, 1999, Warsaw

51

Franck Boidin

French fencer

*August 28th, 1972, Hénin-Beaumont

58

Amanda Tapping

English-born Canadian actress

*August 28th, 1965, Rochford

59

Antje Tillmann

German politician

*August 28th, 1964, Düsseldorf

61

David Fincher

American film director

*August 28th, 1962, Denver

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

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

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

55

Ján Svorada

Czech cyclist

*August 28th, 1968, Trenčín

54

Sheryl Sandberg

American technology executive, activist, and author

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

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

56

Greg Clark

British politician (born 1967)

*August 28th, 1967, Middlesbrough

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Born in 1966

57

Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

*August 7th, 1966, Huntsville

57

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

57

Marcus Marin

German football player and manager

*December 13th, 1966, Hamburg

56

Sinéad O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter (1966–2023)

*December 8th, 1966, Glenageary †July 26th, 2023, London

57

David Cameron

British politician (born 1966)

*October 9th, 1966, Marylebone

57

Kiefer Sutherland

British-Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

57

Hwang Hye-young

South Korean badminton player

*July 16th, 1966, Jeungpyeong County

58

Olaf Thon

German association football player and manager

*May 1st, 1966, Gelsenkirchen

57

Lutz Heilmann

German politician

*September 7th, 1966, Zittau

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

58

Olaf Marschall

German association football player and manager (1966–)

*March 19th, 1966, Torgau

58

Irina Serova

Badminton player

*May 14th, 1966, Soviet Union

58

Markus Schupp

German association football player and manager

*January 7th, 1966, Idar-Oberstein

58

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

58

Thomas Doll

German association football player and manager

*April 9th, 1966, Malchin

58

Ludwig Kögl

German footballer

*March 7th, 1966, Penzberg

58

Catrin Striebeck

German actress

*April 18th, 1966, Vienna

57

Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Danish composer

*July 2nd, 1966, Faxe

58

Stefan Mappus

German politician, former PM of Baden-Württemberg

*April 4th, 1966, Pforzheim

58

Marin Hinkle

American actress

*March 23rd, 1966, Dar es Salaam

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No: With 365 days 1966 is a normal year and no leap year.

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