August 28th, 2013

Born on August 28th, 2013

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What happened on August 28th?

August 28th, 2021

The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line opens 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 first direct Presidential election in Singapore was held.

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; during the incident the hostages had bonded with their captors, 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

In tennis, 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.

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, the first American-built steam locomotive, engaged 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.

August 28th, 1640

Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.

August 28th, 1619

Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected Holy Roman Emperor.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 28th

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Who's birthday is on August 28th?

43

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

29

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

82

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author (1828–1910)

*August 28th, 1828, Yasnaya Polyana †November 7th, 1910, Astapovo

27

Kim Se-jeong

South Korean singer and actress

*August 28th, 1996, Gimje

42

Karl Otfried Müller

German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)

*August 28th, 1797, Brzeg †August 1st, 1840, Athens

82

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)

*August 28th, 1749, Frankfurt †March 22nd, 1832, Weimar

49

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

73

Dietz-Otto Edzard

German Assyriologist

*August 28th, 1930, Bremen †June 2nd, 2004, Munich

80

Karl-Michael Vogler

German actor

*August 28th, 1928, Remscheid †June 9th, 2009, Seehausen am Staffelsee

58

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

41

Kevin McNaughton

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Dundee

48

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

40

Manuela Mölgg

Italian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1983, Bruneck

54

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

34

César Azpilicueta

Spanish association football player

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

33

Bojan Krkić

Spanish association football player

*August 28th, 1990, Linyola

34

Valtteri Bottas

Finnish Formula 1 racing driver

*August 28th, 1989, Nastola

91

Eckhard Müller-Mertens

German medievalist

*August 28th, 1923, Berlin †January 14th, 2015, Berlin

46

Jojo Smollett

American actor

*August 28th, 1977, California

66

Roxie Roker

Bahamian–American actress (1929-1995)

*August 28th, 1929, Miami †December 2nd, 1995, Los Angeles

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10

Prince George of Wales

Eldest child of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales

*July 22nd, 2013, St. Mary's Hospital

10

Taufaʻahau Manumataongo

Tongan royal

*May 10th, 2013, Auckland

11

Zaid Al-Hammadi

Association football player

*February 14th, 2013, United Arab Emirates

10

Maceo Martinez

American actor

*October 5th, 2013, Los Angeles

11

Kim Ju-ae

Daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju

*February 19th, 2013, Pyongyang

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