August 28th, 1977

Born on August 28th, 1977

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What happened on August 28th?

August 28th, 1413

The University of St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, was founded when Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small founding group of Augustinian clergy.

August 28th, 1916

A confrontation at Blargies prison camp in France led to a charge of mutiny for New Zealand private John Braithwaite, for which he was later executed.

August 28th, 2021

The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened 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 NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).

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; the hostages had bonded with their captors during the incident, 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

American tennis player 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 (pictured).

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 (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, took part 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 28th

Same year
Born in 1977

48

Zhang Jun

Chinese badminton player

*November 26th, 1977, Suzhou

48

Gail Emms

Badminton player

*July 23rd, 1977, Hitchin

48

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

48

Carsten Linnemann

German economist, politician

*August 10th, 1977, Paderborn

48

Emmanuel Macron

President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017

*December 21st, 1977, Amiens

48

Fally Ipupa

Congolese singer

*December 14th, 1977, Kinshasa

48

Anne Marie Waters

UK far-right politician (1977-)

*August 24th, 1977, Dublin

49

Tedashii

American rapper

*March 8th, 1977, Lufkin

48

Vanessa Trump

Ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr. (born 1977)

*December 18th, 1977, New York City

49

Shakira

Colombian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 2nd, 1977, Barranquilla

49

Melanie Lynskey

New Zealand actress (born 1977)

*May 16th, 1977, New Plymouth

49

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

48

Brock Lesnar

American professional wrestler, mixed martial artist and football player (born 1977)

*July 12th, 1977, Webster

48

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Britain actor (born 1977)

*July 10th, 1977, Forest Gate

49

Kaja Kallas

Estonian politician (1977-)

*June 18th, 1977, Tallinn

49

Tim Ricke

German actor

*January 10th, 1977, Duisburg

48

Maggie Gyllenhaal

American actress, singer and filmmaker (born 1977)

*November 16th, 1977, Manhattan

49

Danielle Harris

American actress

*June 1st, 1977, Plainview

48

Fiona Apple

American musician (born 1977)

*September 13th, 1977, Upper West Side

49

Zachary Quinto

American actor and film producer

*June 2nd, 1977, Pittsburgh

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1977 is a normal year and no leap year.

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