August 28 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

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

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🎂 Notable Births

• 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