August 28th, 1985

Born on August 28th, 1985

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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, 1985

40

Kjetil Jansrud

Norwegian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1985, Stavanger

40

Willie Peyote

Italian rapper and singer-songwriter

*August 28th, 1985, Turin

Same year
Born in 1985

41

Virgil Soeroredjo

Badminton player

*March 11th, 1985, Paramaribo

40

Annalisa

Italian singer-songwriter

*August 5th, 1985, Savona

33

Nipsey Hussle

American rapper (1985–2019)

*August 15th, 1985, Crenshaw †March 31st, 2019, Los Angeles

41

Luciana Abreu

Portuguese singer, actress and television host

*May 25th, 1985, Porto

40

Maria Kristin Yulianti

Indonesian badminton player

*June 25th, 1985, Tuban

41

Eriko Hirose

Japanese badminton player

*March 16th, 1985, Inagawa

40

Bonez MC

German rapper

*December 23rd, 1985, Hamburg

41

Koen Ridder

Badminton player

*March 14th, 1985, Haarlem

41

Ville Lång

Finnish badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lahti

41

Karin Schnaase

German badminton player

*February 14th, 1985, Lüdinghausen

40

Mitchel Wongsodikromo

Badminton player

*August 26th, 1985, Paramaribo

41

Senidah

Slovenian singer-songwriter (born 1985)

*April 9th, 1985, Ljubljana

41

Cristiano Ronaldo

Portuguese association football player

*February 5th, 1985, Funchal

36

Young Dolph

American rapper (1985–2021)

*March 5th, 1985, Chicago †November 17th, 2021, Memphis

40

Salomon Kalou

Ivorian association football player

*August 5th, 1985, Oumé

41

The Quiett

South Korean rapper

*January 29th, 1985, Gwangmyeong

41

Coby

Serbian rapper, singer and producer

*April 11th, 1985, Belgrade

41

Andreas Ottl

German footballer

*March 1st, 1985, Munich

41

Lukas Podolski

German association football player (born 1985)

*June 4th, 1985, Gliwice

40

Luka Modrić

Croatian association football player (born 1985)

*September 9th, 1985, Zadar

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Born on August 28th, 1985
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1985 is a normal year and no leap year.

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