August 28th, 1514

Born on August 28th, 1514

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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 1514

49

Andreas Vesalius

Flemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)

*December 31st, 1514, Mont aux Potences - Galgenberg †October 16th, 1564, Zakynthos

62

Tahmasp I

The second Safavid king (1524–1576)

*February 22nd, 1514, Shahabad, Isfahan †May 14th, 1576, Qazvin

65

Domenico Bollani

Diplomat and politician of the Republic of Venice and Bishop of Brescia (1514-1579)

*February 10th, 1514, Venice †August 12th, 1579, Rome

50

Wolfgang Lazius

Austrian historian

*October 31st, 1514, Vienna †June 19th, 1565, Vienna

43

John Cheke

16th-century English classical scholar and statesman

*June 16th, 1514, Cambridge †September 13th, 1557, London

71

Petreius Tiara

Professor of Greek at Leiden University

*July 15th, 1514, Workum †February 8th, 1586, Franeker

73

Joachim Mynsinger von Frundeck

German judge

*August 13th, 1514, Stuttgart †May 3rd, 1588, Helmstedt

46

Amago Haruhisa

Japanese warlord

*March 8th, 1514, Izumo Province †January 9th, 1561, Gassantoda Castle

59

Otto Truchsess von Waldburg

Catholic cardinal

*February 26th, 1514, Schloss Scheer †April 2nd, 1573, Rome

33

Lorenzino de' Medici

Italian writer and assassin (1514-1548)

*March 22nd, 1514, Florence †February 26th, 1548, Venice

60

Guidobaldo II della Rovere

Italian condottiero

*April 2nd, 1514, Urbino †September 28th, 1574, Urbino

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1514 is a normal year and no leap year.

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