August 28th, 1500

Born on August 28th, 1500

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 192,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 935 days, exactly on January 26th, 2029, people who were born on August 28th, 1500 will be 193,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 28th?

August 28th, 1413

The University of St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, was founded when Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small founding group of Augustinian clergy.

August 28th, 1916

A confrontation at Blargies prison camp in France led to a charge of mutiny for New Zealand private John Braithwaite, for which he was later executed.

August 28th, 2021

The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.

August 28th, 2003

A pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed during a complex bank robbery when a bomb that was locked around his neck exploded.

August 28th, 1993

The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).

August 28th, 1987

Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.

August 28th, 1973

Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; the hostages had bonded with their captors during the incident, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.

August 28th, 1963

American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

August 28th, 1955

African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.

August 28th, 1950

American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.

August 28th, 1914

In the first naval battle of the First World War, British ships ambushed a German naval patrol in the Heligoland Bight (pictured).

August 28th, 1909

The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.

August 28th, 1833

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833, officially abolishing slavery in most of the British Empire, received royal assent.

August 28th, 1830

Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, took part in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.

August 28th, 1789

William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 28th

Same year
Born in 1500

58

Charles V

Holy Roman Emperor from 1519 to 1556

*February 24th, 1500, Ghent †September 21st, 1558, Monastery of Yuste

70

Benvenuto Cellini

Florentine sculptor and goldsmith (1500–1571)

*November 1st, 1500, Florence †February 13th, 1571, Florence

58

Reginald Pole

English cardinal, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury

*March 3rd, 1500, Staffordshire †November 17th, 1558, London

55

Antonio Musa Brassavola

Italian physician and botanist (1500-1555)

*January 16th, 1500, Ferrara †July 6th, 1555, Ferrara

40

Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Marquis and later first Duke of Mantua (1500-1540)

*May 17th, 1500, Mantua †August 28th, 1540, Marmirolo

90

Alonso de Orozco

Spanish philosopher (1500-1591)

*October 17th, 1500, Oropesa †September 19th, 1591, Madrid

52

Johannes Rivius

German theologian and educationist

*August 1st, 1500, Attendorn †January 1st, 1553, Meissen

64

Federico Cesi

Italian cardinal

*July 2nd, 1500, Rome †January 28th, 1565, Rome

75

Maria of Jever

Last ruler of Jever from the Wiemken dynasty (1500-1575)

*January 1st, 1500, Jever †January 1st, 1575, Jever

74

Joachim Camerarius

German humanist, polymath and poet (1500-1574)

*April 12th, 1500, Bamberg †April 17th, 1574, Leipzig

64

Rodolfo Pio da Carpi

Catholic cardinal

*February 22nd, 1500, Modena †May 2nd, 1564, Rome

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1500 is a normal year and no leap year.

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