March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech. Date: August 28, 1963 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1963 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Philadelphia race riot begins. Date: August 28, 1964 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1964 📅 On This Day (Today)
Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching". Date: August 28, 1968 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1968 📅 On This Day (Today)
Norrmalmstorg 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. Date: August 28, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅…
Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured. Date: August 28, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1988 📅 On This Day (Today)
An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people. Date: August 28, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province. Date: August 28, 1990 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1990 📅 On This Day (Today)
A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82. Date: August 28, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. Date: August 28, 1993 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 28 📅 Events on this day in 1993 📅 On This Day (Today)
Singaporean 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 and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition….