August 28th, 1975

Born on August 28th, 1975

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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, 1975

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

48

Hamish McLachlan

Australian sports broadcaster

*August 28th, 1975, Adelaide

48

Annika Kuhl

German actress

*August 28th, 1975, Wuppertal

48

Jamie Cureton

English footballer (born 1975)

*August 28th, 1975, Bristol

48

Eijaz Khan

Indian actor

*August 28th, 1975, Hyderabad

48

Jade Raymond

Canadian video game executive

*August 28th, 1975, Montreal

48

Yūko Gotō

Japanese actress, voice actress and singer

*August 28th, 1975, Aichi Prefecture

48

Senad Tiganj

Slovenian footballer

*August 28th, 1975, Jesenice

48

Royce Willis

New Zealand rugby union player

*August 28th, 1975, Tokoroa

48

Gareth Farrelly

Irish footballer

*August 28th, 1975, Dublin

48

Eugene Byrd

American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Philadelphia

48

Vera Jordanova

Bulgarian-Finnish model and actress

*August 28th, 1975, Helsinki

48

Lata Sabharwal

Indian actress

*August 28th, 1975, Mumbai

48

Shana Feste

American film director and screenwriter

*August 28th, 1975, Los Angeles

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Who's birthday is on August 28th?

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

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

46

Jojo Smollett

American actor

*August 28th, 1977, California

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

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

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

41

Kevin McNaughton

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Dundee

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

40

Manuela Mölgg

Italian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1983, Bruneck

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

51

Franck Boidin

French fencer

*August 28th, 1972, Hénin-Beaumont

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

49

Johan Andersson

Swedish video game designer and producer

*August 28th, 1974, Stockholm

41

Thiago Motta

Italian association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1982, São Bernardo do Campo

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Born in 1975

49

André Poggenburg

German politician and entrepreneur

*March 12th, 1975, Weißenfels

49

Lorin Morgan-Richards

American author, illustrator, and songwriter

*February 16th, 1975, Beebetown

48

Ane Dahl Torp

Norwegian actress

*August 1st, 1975, Bærum Municipality

48

Maria Thayer

American actress

*October 30th, 1975, Portland

48

Zhang Ning

Chinese female badminton player

*May 19th, 1975, Jinzhou

48

Ha Tae-kwon

South Korean badminton player

*April 30th, 1975, Jeonju

48

Kim Dong-moon

South Korean badminton player

*September 22nd, 1975, Gokseong County

48

Candra Wijaya

Badminton player

*September 16th, 1975, Cirebon City

49

Gu Jun

Chinese badminton player

*January 3rd, 1975, Wuxi

48

Ge Fei

Chinese badminton player

*October 9th, 1975, Nantong

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

49

Tracey Hallam

English badminton player

*March 24th, 1975, Burton upon Trent

48

Jim Ronny Andersen

Badminton player

*May 4th, 1975, Songdalen Municipality

48

Sarah Hardaker

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1975, Dartford

49

Tony Gunawan

Badminton player

*April 9th, 1975, Surabaya

49

Bradley Cooper

American actor

*January 5th, 1975, Philadelphia

48

Marion Cotillard

French actress

*September 30th, 1975, Paris

48

Anders Anundsen

Norwegian politician

*November 17th, 1975, Stavern

48

Angelina Jolie

American actress (born 1975)

*June 4th, 1975, Los Angeles

48

Konrad Bansa

German handball player and coach

*July 24th, 1975, Neuwied

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No: With 365 days 1975 is a normal year and no leap year.

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