August 28th, 1987

Born on August 28th, 1987

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What happened on August 28th, 1987?

August 28th, 1987

Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.

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What else 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, 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, 1987

38

Rydell Poepon

Dutch association football player

*August 28th, 1987, Amsterdam

38

Leonardo Genoni

Swiss ice hockey goaltender

*August 28th, 1987, Semione

38

Katie Green

British model

*August 28th, 1987, England

38

Reggie Stephens

Player of American football

*August 28th, 1987, Dallas

38

Rio Dewanto

Indonesian actor

*August 28th, 1987, Jakarta

Same year
Born in 1987

38

Jax Jones

British DJ and record producer

*July 25th, 1987, London

38

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

38

Greysia Polii

Indonesian badminton player

*August 11th, 1987, Jakarta

38

Tontowi Ahmad

Indonesian badminton player

*July 18th, 1987, Banyumas

39

Annari Viljoen

Badminton player

*January 16th, 1987, Bloemfontein

38

Vance Joy

Australian singer-songwriter

*December 1st, 1987, Melbourne

39

Sandra Lyng

Norwegian singer

*April 18th, 1987, Mosjøen

38

Kontra K

German rapper

*July 3rd, 1987, Berlin

39

Eva Avila

Canadian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 25th, 1987, Gatineau

38

Milan Borjan

Canadian association football player

*October 23rd, 1987, Knin

38

Lionel Messi

Argentine association football player

*June 24th, 1987, Rosario

38

Philippa Strache

Austrian presenter and politician

*December 1st, 1987, Vienna

38

Rosalie Thomass

German actress

*August 14th, 1987, Munich

39

Shendy Puspa Irawati

Indonesian badminton player

*May 20th, 1987, Nganjuk

39

Andrew Ellis

Badminton player

*January 21st, 1987, Leeds

38

Vladimir Ivanov

Russian badminton player

*July 3rd, 1987, Kusa

38

Lukas Runggaldier

Italian Nordic combined skier

*July 31st, 1987, Bolzano

38

Sevdaliza

Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter, record producer, visual artist and director

*September 1st, 1987, Tehran

39

Joel Turner

Australian rapper and beatboxer

*March 3rd, 1987, Mullumbimby

39

Anna Hopkins

Canadian actress

*February 12th, 1987, Montreal

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No: With 365 days 1987 is a normal year and no leap year.

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