Born on 28 August 1983

At A Glance

28 August 1983 at a glance

Day of the week

28 August 1983 was a Sunday.

UK Number One

The UK Number One single was “Red Red Wine” by UB40.

Top Film of 1983

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1983 was Return of the Jedi.

Star sign

The star sign for 28 August is Virgo.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 28 August 1983 fell in the Year of the Pig.

Birthstone

The birthstone for August is Peridot.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 28 August 1983 was Waning Gibbous.

On this day: 28 August

• 1990 Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
• 1993 NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
• 1993 Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
• 1993 The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
• 1996 Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.

Famous people born on 28 August

• David Fincher, American director and producer (born 1962)
• Shania Twain, Grammy Award-winning Canadian Country Singer-Songwriter (born 1965)
• Jack Kirby, Comic Book Artist and Writer (1917–1994)
• Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor (born 1956)

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