On This Day in History — August 28

• 1998 — Pakistan'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.
• 1998 — Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
• 1993 — The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
• 1990 — Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
• 1990 — An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
• 1988 — 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.

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Notable Births on August 28

• 2003 — Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
• 1994 — Bobby Andonov, Australian singer
• 1994 — Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player
• 1994 — Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
• 1993 — Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer
• 1992 — Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast

Notable Deaths on August 28

• 2016 — Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 2016 — Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (b. 1934)
• 2015 — Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2015 — Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (b. 1920)
• 2015 — Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (b. 1937)
• 2014 — Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (b. 1947)

On This Day in History — August 29

• 2012 — At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua, Sichuan Province.
• 2005 — Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.
• 2003 — Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.
• 1997 — At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
• 1996 — Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
• 1991 — Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.

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Notable Births on August 29

• 1993 — Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter
• 1992 — Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1992 — Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player
• 1991 — Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer
• 1991 — Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
• 1990 — Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer

Notable Deaths on August 29

• 2016 — Gene Wilder, American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, film director, and author (b. 1933)
• 2014 — Octavio Brunetti, Argentinian pianist and composer (b. 1975)
• 2014 — Björn Waldegård, Swedish race car driver (b. 1943)
• 2013 — Joan L. Krajewski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1934)
• 2013 — Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Zambian cardinal (b. 1931)
• 2013 — Bruce C. Murray, American geologist and academic, co-founded The Planetary Society (b. 1931)