August 28th, 1974

Born on August 28th, 1974

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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, 1974

49

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

49

Johan Andersson

Swedish video game designer and producer

*August 28th, 1974, Stockholm

49

Jen Kirkman

American actor, writer and comedian

*August 28th, 1974, Needham

49

Alexis Skye

American fashion model

*August 28th, 1974, Chandler

49

Jens Jonsson

Swedish writer and film director

*August 28th, 1974, Umeå

49

Kaori Mizuhashi

Japanese voice actress

*August 28th, 1974, Sapporo

49

Fabiola Colmenares

Venezuelan actress and model

*August 28th, 1974, Barquisimeto

49

Kristin Booth

Canadian actress

*August 28th, 1974, Kitchener

49

Steffiana de la Cruz

American actress

*August 28th, 1974, Pennsylvania

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Who's birthday is on August 28th?

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

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

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

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

46

Jojo Smollett

American actor

*August 28th, 1977, California

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

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

41

Kevin McNaughton

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Dundee

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

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

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

40

Manuela Mölgg

Italian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1983, Bruneck

27

Kim Se-jeong

South Korean singer and actress

*August 28th, 1996, Gimje

55

Billy Boyd

Scottish actor and musician

*August 28th, 1968, Glasgow

54

Sheryl Sandberg

American technology executive, activist, and author

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

61

David Fincher

American film director

*August 28th, 1962, Denver

57

Christophe Galtier

French association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1966, Marseille

48

Hamish McLachlan

Australian sports broadcaster

*August 28th, 1975, Adelaide

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Born in 1974

49

Arianne Zucker

American actress and model

*June 3rd, 1974, Northridge

50

Ty Olsson

Canadian actor (born 1974)

*January 28th, 1974, Halifax

49

Anggun

Indonesian-born French singer-songwriter and television personality

*April 29th, 1974, Jakarta

50

Maulik Pancholy

Indian American actor, author, activist, and speaker

*January 18th, 1974, Kissimmee

49

Yoo Yong-sung

Badminton player

*October 25th, 1974, Dangjin

49

Michelle Edwards

Badminton player

*July 11th, 1974, Durban

49

Kenneth Jonassen

Badminton player

*July 3rd, 1974, Herning

49

Markus Weinzierl

German association football player and manager

*December 28th, 1974, Straubing

49

Marina Andrievskaia

Badminton player

*November 20th, 1974, Moscow

49

Florentine Lahme

TV and film actress

*July 21st, 1974, Berlin

50

Anna Grisebach

German actress

*March 20th, 1974, Göttingen

49

Leonardo DiCaprio

American actor and film producer (born 1974)

*November 11th, 1974, Los Angeles

50

Adrian Holmes

Welsh-Canadian actor

*March 31st, 1974, Wrexham

50

Martin Dulig

German politician (SPD)

*February 26th, 1974, Plauen

50

Steve Lomas

Northern Irish association football player and manager

*January 18th, 1974, Hanover

49

Bas Böttcher

German writer and poetry slam performer

*December 31st, 1974, Bremen

50

Alyson Hannigan

American actress and television presenter

*March 24th, 1974, Washington, D.C.

50

Tri Kusharyanto

Badminton player

*January 18th, 1974, Yogyakarta City

49

Ye Zhaoying

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 1974, Hangzhou

49

Kim Ji-hyun

South Korean badminton player

*September 10th, 1974, Busan

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No: With 365 days 1974 is a normal year and no leap year.

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