August 28th, 1995

Born on August 28th, 1995

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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, 1995

30

Gabriel Okechukwu

Nigerian association football player

*August 28th, 1995, Abuja

Same year
Born in 1995

31

Danna

Mexican singer, actress, composer and model

*June 23rd, 1995, Mexico City

30

Doja Cat

American rapper and singer

*October 21st, 1995, Tarzana

31

Melanie Martinez

American singer-songwriter

*April 28th, 1995, Astoria

30

Dominic Fike

American musician

*December 30th, 1995, Naples

30

Setyana Mapasa

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1995, Kawangkoan

30

Sofía Reyes

Mexican singer-songwriter

*September 25th, 1995, Monterrey

31

Shirin David

German rapper, singer and former YouTuber

*April 11th, 1995, Hamburg

26

Marília Mendonça

Brazilian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist (1995–2021)

*July 22nd, 1995, Cristianópolis †November 5th, 2021, Piedade de Caratinga

31

Nozomi Okuhara

Japanese badminton player

*March 13th, 1995, Ōmachi

31

Wang Chi-Lin

Taiwanese badminton player

*January 18th, 1995, Taipei

30

Irama

Italian singer-songwriter (1995-)

*December 20th, 1995, Carrara

30

Lee Yang

Taiwanese badminton player

*August 12th, 1995, Taipei

30

Cheryl Seinen

Badminton player

*August 4th, 1995, Roermond

30

Delphine Lansac

Badminton player

*July 18th, 1995, Lyon

31

Mark Caljouw

Badminton player

*January 25th, 1995, Rijswijk

31

Tems

Nigerian singer-songwriter

*June 11th, 1995, Lagos

31

Sasha Alex Sloan

American singer-songwriter

*March 11th, 1995, Boston

31

Fireboy DML

Nigerian singer

*February 5th, 1995, Ogun State

31

Tom Misch

English musician and producer

*June 25th, 1995, London

31

Felipe Araújo

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 2nd, 1995, Goiânia

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No: With 365 days 1995 is a normal year and no leap year.

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