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Events on August 28

• 1833 Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
• 1850 Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin is premiered at the Grand Ducal Court Theatre in Weimar.
• 1898 The pharmacist Caleb Bradham renames the drink he invented, Brad’s Drink, as Pepsi-Cola.
• 1927 The Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main is awarded for the first time.
• 1939 In Germany, food stamps and petrol ration coupons are issued on the fourth day before the start of the war.
• 1963 More than 200,000 Black and white citizens take part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King delivers his famous I Have a Dream speech.
• 1963 At the 23rd Great German Radio Exhibition in Berlin, the Dutch company Philips introduces the first compact cassette (music cassette) and the corresponding Philips EL 3300 cassette recorder, which is fitted with transistors.
• 1966 The German Rudi Altig becomes the road world champion in professional cycling.
• 1967 In East Germany, Saturday is declared a day off, thereby introducing the five-day working week (43.75 hours). At the same time, five statutory holidays are abolished.
• 1972 At the swimming competitions of the Olympic Games in Munich, Mark Spitz wins the first two of the seven gold medals he ultimately wins.
• 1981 In Frankfurt am Main, the Alte Oper, almost completely destroyed in 1944, is reopened with a performance of Mahler’s 8th Symphony.
• 1984 The Amstetten criminal case begins. The perpetrator lures his daughter into the cellar and keeps her captive for more than 24 years for sexual motives.

Born on August 28

• 1884 Christian Stock, German politician, Minister-President of Hesse
• 1894 Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor
• 1902 Otto Neumann, German track and field athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1930 Ben Gazzara, American actor
• 1940 Dirk Galuba, German actor
• 1961 Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
• 1961 Saskia Esken, German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1962 David Fincher, American director and producer
• 1980 Petra Schmidt-Schaller, German actress
• 1990 Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „28. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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