August 28th, 1983

Born on August 28th, 1983

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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

Born on August 28th, 1983

42

Manuela Mölgg

Italian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1983, Bruneck

42

Lilli Schwarzkopf

German heptathlete

*August 28th, 1983, Novopokrovka, Chuy

42

Luke McAlister

New Zealand rugby union player

*August 28th, 1983, Waitara

42

Lasith Malinga

Sri Lankan cricketer

*August 28th, 1983, Galle

42

Will Herring

American football linebacker

*August 28th, 1983, Opelika

42

Nate Washington

American football player

*August 28th, 1983, Toledo

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Born in 1983

42

Kamilla Rytter Juhl

Danish badminton player

*November 23rd, 1983, Skagen

42

Loreen

Moroccan and Swedish singer and songwriter

*October 16th, 1983, Danderyd

42

Katrina Kaif

British-Indian actress (born 1983)

*July 16th, 1983, Hong Kong

42

Petya Nedelcheva

Bulgarian badminton player

*July 30th, 1983, Stara Zagora

43

John Lundvik

Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter

*January 27th, 1983, London

43

Kaisa Mäkäräinen

Finnish biathlete

*January 11th, 1983, Ristijärvi

43

Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen

Member of the Danish parliament

*May 4th, 1983, Brovst

42

Carsten Mogensen

Danish badminton player

*July 24th, 1983, Roskilde

43

Bao Chunlai

Chinese badminton player

*February 17th, 1983, Changsha

43

Lee Jae-jin

South Korean badminton player

*January 26th, 1983, Miryang

43

Summer Cem

German rapper

*April 11th, 1983, Mönchengladbach

43

Liisi Koikson

Estonian singer

*June 4th, 1983, Kilingi-Nõmme

43

Seth Sentry

Australian rapper

*January 4th, 1983, Sorrento

42

Philipp Lahm

German association football player

*November 11th, 1983, Munich

42

Matthias Mangiapane

*September 29th, 1983, Langen

43

Laura de Boer

Dutch actress

*February 26th, 1983, Amsterdam

42

Daniel Norgren

Swedish singer

*July 18th, 1983, Borås

42

Mila Kunis

Ukrainian-American actress

*August 14th, 1983, Chernivtsi

43

Julius Onah

American film director

*February 10th, 1983, Makurdi

42

Andrew Garfield

British-American actor

*August 20th, 1983, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1983 is a normal year and no leap year.

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