August 28th, 2526

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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

Birthdays and future age on August 28th, 2526

546

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

German actress

*August 28th, 1980, Magdeburg

527

Luna

Polish singer

*August 28th, 1999, Warsaw

532

Felix Jaehn

German DJ and music producer

*August 28th, 1994, Hamburg

552

Carsten Jancker

German association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1974, Grevesmühlen

560

Christophe Galtier

French association football player and manager

*August 28th, 1966, Marseille

530

Kim Se-jeong

South Korean singer and actress

*August 28th, 1996, Gimje

561

Shania Twain

Canadian country music singer and songwriter

*August 28th, 1965, Windsor

554

Franck Boidin

French fencer

*August 28th, 1972, Hénin-Beaumont

557

Jack Black

American actor and musician (born 1969)

*August 28th, 1969, Santa Monica

551

Nick E. Tarabay

Lebanese and American actor

*August 28th, 1975, Beirut

549

Jojo Smollett

American actor

*August 28th, 1977, California

564

Francisco Camps

Spanish politician

*August 28th, 1962, Valencia

544

Kevin McNaughton

British footballer (born 1982)

*August 28th, 1982, Dundee

543

Manuela Mölgg

Italian alpine skier

*August 28th, 1983, Bruneck

537

Valtteri Bottas

Finnish Formula 1 racing driver

*August 28th, 1989, Nastola

564

David Fincher

American film director

*August 28th, 1962, Denver

565

Jennifer Coolidge

American actress (born 1961)

*August 28th, 1961, Boston

562

Antje Tillmann

German politician

*August 28th, 1964, Düsseldorf

537

César Azpilicueta

Spanish association football player

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

588

Paul Martin

Prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006

*August 28th, 1938, Windsor

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