August 28th, 1980

Born on August 28th, 1980

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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, 1980

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

43

Carly Pope

Canadian actress

*August 28th, 1980, Vancouver

43

Jairam Navas

Venezuelan actress and model

*August 28th, 1980, Maracay

43

Núria Madruga

Portuguese actress

*August 28th, 1980, Vila Franca de Xira

43

Prasanna

Indian actor

*August 28th, 1980, Tiruchirappalli

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 28th?

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

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

41

Thiago Motta

Italian association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1982, São Bernardo do Campo

40

Will Herring

American football linebacker

*August 28th, 1983, Opelika

39

Paula Fernandes

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*August 28th, 1984, Sete Lagoas

62

Jennifer Coolidge

American actress

*August 28th, 1961, Boston

47

Monty Tiwa

Indonesian film director

*August 28th, 1976, Jakarta

44

Shaila Dúrcal

Spanish singer

*August 28th, 1979, Madrid

27

Kim Se-jeong

South Korean singer and actress

*August 28th, 1996, Gimje

80

Karl-Michael Vogler

German actor

*August 28th, 1928, Remscheid †June 9th, 2009, Seehausen am Staffelsee

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

41

LeAnn Rimes

American singer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Jackson

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

34

César Azpilicueta

Spanish association football player

*August 28th, 1989, Zizur Mayor/Zizur Nagusia

42

Charlie Frye

American football player

*August 28th, 1981, Norwalk

33

Bojan Krkić

Spanish association football player

*August 28th, 1990, Linyola

54

Jason Priestley

Canadian-American actor

*August 28th, 1969, Vancouver

37

Florence Welch

English musician, singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1986, Camberwell

Same year
Born in 1980

43

Henriett Koósz

Paralympic tennis and badminton player

*February 14th, 1980, Kőszeg

43

Kristen Bell

American actress (born 1980)

*July 18th, 1980, Huntington Woods

43

Maya Diab

Lebanese singer, entertainer, actress and television personality

*November 12th, 1980, Beirut

43

Mustafa Ceceli

Turkish singer

*November 2nd, 1980, Ankara

43

Cai Yun

Badminton player

*January 19th, 1980, Suzhou

43

Sudheer Babu

Indian film actor and former professional badminton player

*May 11th, 1980, Vijayawada

43

Mathias Boe

Danish badminton player

*July 11th, 1980, Frederikssund

43

Matias Varela

Swedish actor

*November 1st, 1980, Stockholm

43

Volker Bruch

German actor

*March 9th, 1980, Munich

38

Vibeke Skofterud

Norwegian cross country skier

*April 20th, 1980, Askim Municipality †July 29th, 2018, Hove

43

Roman Weidenfeller

German association football player

*August 6th, 1980, Diez

43

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

43

Dani Kind

Canadian actress

*January 10th, 1980, Toronto

43

Florent Malouda

French association football player

*June 13th, 1980, Cayenne

43

Abby Wambach

American soccer player

*June 2nd, 1980, Rochester

43

Nazanin Boniadi

British-Iranian actress

*May 22nd, 1980, Tehran

43

Katee Sackhoff

American actress

*April 8th, 1980, Portland

43

Narges Rashidi

German-Iranian actress

*March 21st, 1980, Khorramabad

43

Chris Pine

American actor

*August 26th, 1980, Los Angeles

43

Rishi Sunak

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2022

*May 12th, 1980, Southampton

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Leap year

Yes: 1980 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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