Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/August 28

• 1830 – The Tom Thumb presages the first railway service in the United States.
• 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
• 1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and fall into the crowd. 75 are killed, 346 seriously injured.
• 1990 – The Plainfield Tornado: An F5 tornado hits in Plainfield, Illinois, and Joliet, Illinois, United States, killing 28 people.

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