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Thursday, 25 December 2025
1981 On August - 28 john Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan 
1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to attempting to kill US President Ronald Reagan. He is later acquitted by reason of insanity on this day in history.
1981 On this day in history national Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis & Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3 47.33 (since broken) on August - 28.
1981 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken) on this day in history.
1982 On August - 28 g W A Chubb, cricketer (5 Tests for South Africa, 21 wickets), dies
1983 On this day in history israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour on this day in history.
1983 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller-Lassie), dies at 66 on this day in history.
1985 Launch of Aussat, Australia's first domestic communications satellite on this day in history.
1985 Ruth Gordon, actress (Big Bus), dies of a stroke in her sleep at 88 on August - 28.
1986 On this day in history uS Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81 on this day in history.
1988 On this day in history 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988 On August - 28 hazel Dawn, US singer/actress (Under Clover, Margie), dies at 98
1990 Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province on August - 28.
1990 Kuwait declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein on August - 28.
1990 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske & Wiske), dies on this day in history.
1991 5 die in a NYC subway's 3rd worst accident on this day in history.
1991 On August - 28 red Tom Browning vs Expo Dennis Martinez both perfect game pitcher
1991 Christian Anders, actor/composer (Death Stone, Love Cult), dies on August - 28.
1992 National Defence sends destroyer HMCS Gatineau to monitor UN embargo against Yugoslavia and moves to NATO standing force in Mediterranean on August - 28.
1993 René Ray, English countess/actress (Farewell again), dies at 80 on this day in history.
1994 David Wright, poet, dies at 74 on this day in history.
1995 Chase Manhattan and Chemical Bank announce plans for a $10 billion merger to become the largest bank in the US on August - 28.
1995 On August - 28 agnes Patrick, campaigner, dies at 85
1996 On this day in history britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana divorce, ending 15 years of marriage.
1996 Lynda Carr, educationist, dies at 50 on August - 28.
2005 On this day in history terrorist wounds 52 at bus station in Beersheba, Israel. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for attack.
2006 On this day in history a Greyhound Lines bus from New York City to Montreal, carrying 52 people, crashes at mile 115 on Interstate 87 near Elizabethtown killing 5 people including the driver and several are seriously injured.
2007 Abdullah Gül is elected as the eleventh President of Turkey by the Turkish Parliament, after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy on August - 28.
2012 Mitt Romney is officially nominated as the United States Republican Party's candidate on this day in history.
2013 On this day in history china and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons
2017 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail on August - 28.
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