At A Glance

28 August 2013 at a glance

Day of the week
28 August 2013 was a Wednesday.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell.
Top Film of 2013
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2013 was Frozen.
Top-Rated TV Show
“Sunday Night Football” (NBC) and “NCIS” (CBS) were joint No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2013–14 season.
Star sign
The star sign for 28 August is Virgo.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 28 August 2013 fell in the Year of the Snake.
Birthstone
The birthstone for August is Peridot.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 28 August 2013 was Last Quarter.

On this day: 28 August

  • 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.
  • 1999 The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
  • 2009 NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.
  • 2016 The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
  • 2017 China–India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.

Famous people born on August 28

  • 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 2013 in the United States

A selection from Wikipedia's '2013 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

  • January 10 – 85th Academy Awards: Nominations are announced at Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Best Picture nominees are Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Les Misérables, Silver Linings Playbook, and Zero Dark Thirty.
  • April 23 – Teen Titans Go! debuts on Cartoon Network.
  • May 3 – Iron Man 3, directed by Shane Black, is released by Marvel Studios as the seventh film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) the first in its "Phase Two" slate and the direct sequel to 2008's Iron Man and 2010's Iron Man 2.

Life in the US in 2013

President

Barack Obama

Gas (per gallon)

$3.53

Loaf of Bread

$1.90

Average House

$272,900

Weekly Wage

$776

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