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August 28th, 2008	Event	Senator Barack Obama, the first major African American to be nominated for president by a major political party, plans on accepting the Democratic Party s nomination in Denver.
August 28th, 1998	Event	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.
August 28th, 1996	Event	Britons Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, are divorced.
August 28th, 1991	Event	Ukraine declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
August 28th, 1991	Event	Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
August 28th, 1990	Event	Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
August 28th, 1990	Event	The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, killing 28 people.
August 28th, 1988	Event	Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowdied in 75 are killed, 346 seriously injured.
August 28th, 1986	Event	US Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years imprisonment for espionage for the Soviet Union.
August 28th, 1982	Event	The first Gay Games are held in San Francisco.

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