On This Day: What happened on 28 August?

Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 28 August, throughout history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.

ON THIS DAY: 28 AUGUST

2003 | In “one of the most complex and mysterious crimes in the annals of the FBI”, Brian Wells died after being involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.

1844 |  The Town Victoria West was founded under the name Victoria, named after Queen Victoria.

1998 | Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur’an and Sunnah” the “supreme law” but the bill failed in the Senate.

1998 | Second Congo War: Loyalist soldiers backed by Angola and Zimbabwe forces repel RCD and Rwandan attacks on Kinshasa.

1993 | The Galileo spacecraft discovered a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.

1990 | Iraq declared Kuwait to be its newest province.

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BIRTHDAYS

1979 | Australian netball player, Kristen Hughes.

1948 | New Zealand cricketer and educator, Murray Parker.

1941 | English drummer, John Stanley Marshall.

1961 | American actress, Jennifer Coolidge.

1989 | American singer-songwriter, Cassadee Pope.

ON THIS DAY: DEATHS

2008 | American race car driver, Phil Hill, 81.

2014 | English bass guitarist, Glenn Cornick, 67.

2006 | Estonian shot putter and discus thrower, Heino Lipp, 84.

2015 | Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator, Mark Krasniqi, 95.

2005 | French actor, Jacques Dufilho, 91.

SPORTS

2011 | On this day, Manchester United embarrassed  Arsenal by thumping them 8 goals in a Premier League match at Old Trafford, however, the match ended 8-2.

ENTERTAINMENT

2009 | On this day on the Disney Channel premiered “Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie” 

AFRICA FACT

The world’s smallest fox with large ears measuring up to 6 inches (15.24cm) is found in Algeria. The fennec fox is a national animal.