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28 August 1994 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 28 August 1994 was a Sunday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Love Is All Around” by Wet Wet Wet.
- Top Film of 1994
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1994 was The Lion King.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 28 August is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 28 August 1994 fell in the Year of the Dog.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 28 August 1994 was Last Quarter.
On this day: 28 August
- 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.
- 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.
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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Events of 1994 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '1994 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 19 March – Europe's first inverted roller coaster, Nemesis, opens at Alton Towers.
- 6 May – The Channel Tunnel, a 51 km (32 mi) long rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover, is officially opened by the Queen and French President François Mitterrand.
- 14 July – The Queen opens the SIS Building, the new headquarters of MI6 on the banks of the River Thames in London.
Life in 1994
Prime Minister
John Major
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£1.30
Loaf of Bread
62p
Average House
£56,955
Weekly Wage
£330.00
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