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Trivia Facts For this day in History: August 28, 2008
Birthdays:| 1828 | Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian author of 'War and Peace' | | 1840 | Ira Sankey, American Hymn writer | | 1915 | Max Robertson, Tennis commentator | | 1925 | Donald O'Connor, US song and dance man on both TV and film | | 1943 | Annie Honey Lantree, Of the 'Honeycombs' pop group | | 1943 | Elain Mellor, British jockey | | 1944 | David Soul, American singer and actor; TV's 'Starsky and Hutch' | | 1949 | Hugh Cornwall, Of the Pop group 'The Stranglers' |
Events:| 1789 | William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn | | 1963 | Over 200,000 people marched through Washington in a civil rights demonstration; joined by many stars | | 1967 | The Inventor of Monopoly, Charles Darrow, died | | 1972 | Prince William of Gloucester died, when his aircraft crashed during an air show | | 1973 | Princess Anne visited Russia, becoming the first member of the Royal Family to do so | | 1984 | DJ's Peter Powell & Mike Read were rescued, when their speedboat sprang a leak off the Cornish coast | | 1990 | Kuwait was declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein |
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