What day of the week was August 28, 1988?

The day of the week August 28th, 1988 fell on was a Sunday.

Jean Marchand the Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1918) died on this day in 1988. As did Max Shulman the American author and screenwriter (b. 1919) .

Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.