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This day in history: 28 August

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394 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 28 August.
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2022: Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of three people, including the perpetrator.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Alexander of Constantinople

Christian feast day: August 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Augustine of Hippo

Christian feast day: Edmund Arrowsmith

Christian feast day: Florentina

Christian feast day: Hermes

Christian feast day: Joaquina Vedruna de Mas

Christian feast day: Moses the Black

National Grandparents Day (Mexico)

Events

2022Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of three people, including the perpetrator.

2017China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.

2016The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.

2009NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.

2003In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.

1999The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.

1998Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

1998Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.

1996Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Fed

1993A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.

1993NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.

1993Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong a

1993The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.

1990An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.

1990Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.

1988Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy are killed and 346 seriously injured.

1973Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.

1968Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching".

1964The Philadelphia race riot begins.

1963March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.

1957U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later. This would remain the longest speech ever conducted by a sin

1955Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.

1946The Workers' Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang, North Korea.

1944World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.

1943Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.

1937Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

1936Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.

1924The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

1921Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine.

1917Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.

1916World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.

1916World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.

1914World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

1913Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.

1909A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.

1901Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.

1898Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".

1890The strongest storm in Finnish history kills at least three people.

1879Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

1867The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.

Born on this day

2004Kano Fujihira, Japanese entertainer

2003Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress

2001Kamilla Rakhimova, Russian tennis player

2000Marissa Bode, American actress

1998Weston McKennie, American soccer player

1996Kim Se-jeong, South Korean actress and singer

1994Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player

1994Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player

1993Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer

1992Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player

1992Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast

1992Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model

1991Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model

1991Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer

1990Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer

1989César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer

1989Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer

1989Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver

1988Rosie MacLennan, Canadian trampoline gymnast

1987Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (died 2013)

1986Jeff Green, American basketball player

1986Simon Mannering, New Zealand rugby league player

1986Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (died 2015)

1985Kjetil Jansrud, Norwegian skier

1984Will Harris, American baseball player

1983Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer

1983Lilli Schwarzkopf, German heptathlete

1983Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player

1982Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer

1982Carlos Quentin, American baseball player

1982Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer

1982Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian footballer

1981Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter

1981Ahmed Talbi, Moroccan footballer

1981Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer

1981Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician

1981Raphael Matos, Brazilian race car driver

1980Antony Hämäläinen, Finnish singer-songwriter

1980Debra Lafave, American sex offender and former teacher

1980Jaakko Ojaniemi, Finnish decathlete

Died on this day

2026Harald V of Norway (born 1937)

2024Obi Ndefo, American actor (born 1972)

2024Steve Silberman, American writer and journalist (born 1957)

2020Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (born 1976)

2017Mireille Darc, French actress and model (born 1938)

2016Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (born 1950)

2016Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (born 1934)

2015Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1932)

2015Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (born 1920)

2015Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (born 1937)

2014Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (born 1947)

2014Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (born 1956)

2014John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (born 1937)

2013Barry Stobart, English footballer (born 1938)

2013Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (born 1926)

2013Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (born 1935)

2013John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (born 1942)

2013Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (born 1961)

2013Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (born 1925)

2012Dick McBride, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1928)

2012Ramón Sota, Spanish golfer (born 1938)

2012Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (born 1925)

2012Saul Merin, Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (born 1933)

2012Shulamith Firestone, Canadian-American activist and author (born 1945)

2011Bernie Gallacher, English footballer (born 1967)

2010William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (born 1919)

2009Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ, and producer (born 1973)

2009Richard Egan, US Ambassador, Owner of Dell EMC, Engineer (born 1936)

2008Phil Hill, American race car driver (born 1927)

2007Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (born 1926)

Quote of the day

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

Alan Watts

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