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Tipps: write 'napoleon' to receive all events related to Napoleon.
Write 'england' to see historical events in England.

Anniversaries on: August 28, 2008

Birthdays:
  1828Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian author of 'War and Peace'
  1840Ira Sankey, American Hymn writer
  1915Max Robertson, Tennis commentator
  1925Donald O'Connor, US song and dance man on both TV and film
  1943Elain Mellor, British jockey
  1943Annie Honey Lantree, Of the 'Honeycombs' pop group
  1944David Soul, American singer and actor; TV's 'Starsky and Hutch'
  1949Hugh Cornwall, Of the Pop group 'The Stranglers'

Events:
  1789William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
  1963Over 200,000 people marched through Washington in a civil rights demonstration; joined by many stars
  1967The Inventor of Monopoly, Charles Darrow, died
  1972Prince William of Gloucester died, when his aircraft crashed during an air show
  1973Princess Anne visited Russia, becoming the first member of the Royal Family to do so
  1984DJ's Peter Powell & Mike Read were rescued, when their speedboat sprang a leak off the Cornish coast
  1990Kuwait was declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein
Anniversaries on: August 29, 2008

Birthdays:
  1915Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress; most famous role 'Casablanca'
  1920Charlie Parker, Legendary American Jazz musician
  1923Lord Richard Attenborough, Actor and Director
  1938Elliot Gould, American film actor
  1947James Hunt, Former world champion racing driver
  1958Michael Jackson, Pop singing superstar
  1958Lenny Henry, Comedian and actor of television & film

Events:
  1842The 'Treay Of Nanking' was signed, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain
  1885Gottlieb Daimler patented the first motor cycle
  1895The English Rugby League was formed
  1904In St Louis, Missouri, the 3rd Olympic games opened
  1965Astronauts Cooper & Conrad orbited the Earth 120 times in Gemini 5
  1982American Ashby Harper became the oldest person to swim the English Channel, at the age of 65
  1988Matthew Sadler, a 14 year old from Kent, became the youngest person to be a chess International Master
  1991The Soviet Communist Party was formally suspended
  


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