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1990 Plainfield tornado
An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
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The world was watching. Here's what dominated the headlines:
Gulf War
Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990 Plainfield tornado
An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
Willy Vandersteen
Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1913)
Andreja Pejić
Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model
NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.
Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.
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.
Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
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.
On the field and off it, athletes were making history:
Bojan Krkić
Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
Felicio Brown Forbes
Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer
Bismack Biyombo
Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player
Weston McKennie
Weston McKennie, American soccer player
Must-see TV was a real thing — and this is what filled the airwaves:
Star Trek: Voyager
"The 37's" (Season 2, Episode 1) aired on 1995-08-28.
Nowhere Man
"Absolute Zero" (Season 1, Episode 1) aired on 1995-08-28.
Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends
"Episode 58" (Season 1, Episode 58) aired on 1996-08-28.
Party of Five
"Going, Going, Gone" (Season 3, Episode 2) aired on 1996-08-28.
"Thomas Ian Nicholas, Laura Bergheim" (Season 1995, Episode 145) aired on 1995-08-28.
"Tom Arnold, Mehgan Heaney-Grier, Dane Cook" (Season 1997, Episode 138) aired on 1997-08-28.
"Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius" (Season 1998, Episode 21) aired on 1998-08-28.
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