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Events

• 632 (1394 years ago) Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
• 1901 (125 years ago) Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
• 1990 (36 years ago) Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
• 1993 (33 years ago) The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
• 1998 (28 years ago) 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.
• 1998 (28 years ago) Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
• 2017 (9 years ago) 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.

Births

• 1749 (277 years ago) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (died 1832)
• 1917 (109 years ago) Jack Kirby, Comic Book Artist and Writer (died 1994)
• 1938 (88 years ago) Paul Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
• 1957 (69 years ago) Ivo Josipović, Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia
• 1957 (69 years ago) Ai Weiwei, Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist
• 1962 (64 years ago) David Fincher, American director and producer
• 1965 (61 years ago) Shania Twain, Grammy Award-winning Canadian Country Singer-Songwriter
• 1989 (37 years ago) César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer

Deaths

• 430 (1596 years ago) Augustine of Hippo, Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (born 354)
• 632 (1394 years ago) Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (born 605)
• 1645 (381 years ago) Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (born 1583)
• 1987 (39 years ago) John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Michael Ende, German scientist and author (born 1929)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
• 2020 (6 years ago) Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (born 1976)
• 2026 Harald V of Norway,

All 394 events, births and deaths of August 28