• Aug 28 1998

    28 Years ago

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


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  • Aug 28 1996

    30 Years ago

    United Kingdom Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.


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  • Aug 28 1991

    35 Years ago

    Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.


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  • Aug 28 1991

    35 Years ago

    Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.


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  • Aug 28 1990

    36 Years ago

    Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest Provinces of Iraq.


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  • Aug 28 1990

    36 Years ago

    The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.


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  • Aug 28 1988

    38 Years ago

    Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 75 are killed, 346 seriously injured.


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  • Aug 28 1986

    40 Years ago

    US Navy Officer (armed forces) Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.


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  • Aug 28 1982

    44 Years ago

    The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.


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  • Aug 28 1981

    45 Years ago

    The National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men. Soon, these will be recognized as symptoms of an immune system disorder, which will be called AIDS.


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  • Aug 28 1979

    47 Years ago

    An provisional IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.


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  • Aug 28 1971

    55 Years ago

    The dollar is allowed to float against the yen for the first time.


  • Aug 28 1968

    58 Years ago

    Riots in Chicago, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention.


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  • Aug 28 1964

    62 Years ago

    The Philadelphia 1964 race riot begins.


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  • Aug 28 1963

    63 Years ago

    During a 200,000-person civil rights rally in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous ''I have a dream'' speech.


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  • Aug 28 1961

    65 Years ago

    Motown releases what would be its first number one hit, "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.


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  • Aug 28 1953

    73 Years ago

    Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.


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  • Aug 28 1944

    82 Years ago

    Marseille and Toulon are liberated.


  • Aug 28 1943

    83 Years ago

    In Denmark, a general strike against the Nazism occupation is started.


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  • Aug 28 1937

    89 Years ago

    Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.


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