At the age of 28

• 21-August-2002 : Forensic experts confirm that bodies found days earlier are those of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman; Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr are charged in relation to their deaths.
• 25-April-2002 : ''Soyuz TM-34'': South African Mark Shuttleworth blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; he had paid ?15 million for the trip.
• 20-June-1968 : Austin Currie, Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont in Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.
• 11-March-1959 : ''A Raisin in the Sun'' by Lorraine Hansberry opens on Broadway in New York.
• 13-July-1955 : Ruth Ellis (b. 1926) is hanged for murder in London (the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom).
• 06-July-1917 : Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.
• 30-May-1912 : Joe Dawson wins the second Indianapolis 500-Mile Race after Ralph DePalma's Mercedes breaks down within sight of the finish.
• 31-December-1902 : Scott, Shackleton and Wilson reach the furthest southern point thus far by man at 82?17'S.
• 23-September-1889 : The ''Nintendo'' Koppai (Later ''Nintendo'' Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market Hanafuda playing cards.
• 08-January-1889 : Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine.