August 28th, 1970

Born on August 28th, 1970

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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, 1970

53

Sherrié Austin

Australian actor and musician

*August 28th, 1970, Sydney

36

Loïc Leferme

French freediver (1970–2007)

*August 28th, 1970, Malo-les-Bains †April 11th, 2007, Nice

53

Maria O'Brien

English darts player

*August 28th, 1970, Plymouth

53

Esther Hall

English television and theatre actress

*August 28th, 1970, Manchester

39

Henny van Schoonhoven

Dutch footballer (1970-2009)

*August 28th, 1970, Utrecht †September 11th, 2009, Maarssen

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43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

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

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

54

Sheryl Sandbergs

American technology executive, activist, and authors

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

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

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

55

Billy Boyd

Scottish actor and musician

*August 28th, 1968, Glasgow

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

54

Jason Priestley

Canadian actor (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Vancouver

54

Anke Möhring

East German swimmer

*August 28th, 1969, Magdeburg

52

Joann Sfar

French comics artist, graphic novelist, and film director

*August 28th, 1971, Nice

51

Franck Boidin

French fencer

*August 28th, 1972, Hénin-Beaumont

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

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

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

57

Christophe Galtier

French association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1966, Marseille

55

Ján Svorada

Czech cyclist

*August 28th, 1968, Trenčín

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

46

Jojo Smollett

American actor

*August 28th, 1977, California

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Born in 1970

53

Malena Ernman

Swedish opera singer

*November 4th, 1970, Uppsala Cathedral Assembly

54

Allan Fung

American politician in Rhode Island (born 1970)

*February 23rd, 1970, Providence

53

Shanti Roney

Swedish actor

*November 24th, 1970, Spånga

54

Mia X

American rapper

*January 9th, 1970, New Orleans

53

Mehmet Scholl

German association football player and manager

*October 16th, 1970, Karlsruhe

54

Gil Young-ah

South Korean badminton player

*April 11th, 1970, Ansan

46

Toby Smith

British musician (1970-2017)

*October 29th, 1970, London †April 11th, 2017, London

53

Melania Trump

First Lady of the United States (2017–2021), model, and businesswoman

*April 26th, 1970, Novo Mesto

54

Simon Pegg

English actor (born 1970)

*February 14th, 1970, Brockworth

54

Lara Fabian

Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter

*January 9th, 1970, Etterbeek

53

Colin Lawrence

Actor

*September 7th, 1970, London

53

Ethan Hawke

American actor and writer (b. 1970)

*November 6th, 1970, Austin

54

Ardy Wiranata

Badminton player

*February 10th, 1970, Jakarta

53

Erich Irlstorfer

German politician

*May 27th, 1970, Freising

54

Rachel Weisz

British-American actress

*March 7th, 1970, Westminster

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

53

Rhona Robertson

Badminton player

*July 19th, 1970, Auckland

53

Sandra Dimbour

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1970, Saint-Denis

53

Uma Thurman

American actress (born 1970)

*April 29th, 1970, Boston

53

Ted Cruz

United States Senator from Texas since 2013

*December 22nd, 1970, Calgary

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No: With 365 days 1970 is a normal year and no leap year.

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