August 28th, 1989

Born on August 28th, 1989

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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, 1989

36

César Azpilicueta

Spanish association football player

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

36

Leila Ismailava

Belarusian television presenter and journalist

*August 28th, 1989, Minsk

36

Cécile McLorin Salvant

American jazz singer of French and Haitian roots

*August 28th, 1989, Miami

36

Cassadee Pope

American singer, songwriter and musician

*August 28th, 1989, West Palm Beach

36

Jo Kwon

South Korean singer and actor

*August 28th, 1989, Suwon

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Born in 1989

36

Daniel Radcliffe

British actor (born 1989)

*July 23rd, 1989, Hammersmith

37

Corbin Bleu

American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter

*February 21st, 1989, Brooklyn

37

Chen Long

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1989, Shashi District

37

Alexandra Stan

Romanian singer

*June 10th, 1989, Constanța

37

Misha Zilberman

Israeli badminton player

*January 30th, 1989, Moscow

36

Marcus Ellis

English badminton player

*September 14th, 1989, Huddersfield

37

Chris Adcock

Badminton player

*April 27th, 1989, Leicester

36

Slimane

French singer-songwiter

*October 13th, 1989, Montfermeil

36

Jess Glynne

British singer

*October 20th, 1989, London

37

Katrin Neudolt

Austrian badminton player

*May 11th, 1989, Mödling

36

Thomas Müller

German association football player

*September 13th, 1989, Weilheim in Oberbayern

37

Bronte Barratt

Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, world champion, former world record-holder

*February 8th, 1989, Brisbane

36

Lea Sirk

Slovene singer

*September 1st, 1989, Koper

37

Chukwuma Akabueze

Footballer

*May 6th, 1989, Ilorin

36

Reika Kakiiwa

Japanese badminton player

*July 19th, 1989, Kamiamakusa

36

Kenichi Tago

Japanese badminton player

*July 16th, 1989, Warabi

37

Richi Puspita Dili

Indonesian badminton player

*July 10th, 1989, Sleman

37

Ivan Sozonov

Russian badminton player

*July 6th, 1989, Yekaterinburg

37

Wang Xiaoli

Chinese badminton player

*June 24th, 1989, Huangshi

37

Derek Wong

Singaporean badminton player

*January 13th, 1989, Singapore

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No: With 365 days 1989 is a normal year and no leap year.

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