August 28th, 1545

Born on August 28th, 1545

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 1545

21

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

Duke of Albany and King consort of Scotland (1545-1567)

*December 7th, 1545, Temple Newsam †February 10th, 1567, Edinburgh

23

Carlos, Prince of Asturias

Prince of Asturias; eldest child of Philip II of Spain

*July 8th, 1545, Valladolid †July 24th, 1568, Madrid

47

Alexander Farnese

Duke of Parma and Piacenza, lived (1545-1592); duke of Castro, man of government and military in the service of Spain

*August 27th, 1545, Rome †December 3rd, 1592, Arras

75

Ana de Jesús

Spanish Discalced Carmelite nun and spiritual writer (1545-1621)

*December 5th, 1545, Medina del Campo †March 4th, 1621, City of Brussels

16

Lucrezia de' Medici

Duchess of Ferrara

*February 14th, 1545, Florence †April 21st, 1561, Ferrara

53

Neidhardt von Thüngen

German bishop

*May 1st, 1545, Ehrenberg †December 26th, 1598, Würzburg

57

Franciscus Junius

Huguenot theologian

*May 11th, 1545, Bourges †October 13th, 1602, Leiden

76

Andrew Melville

Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer

*August 1st, 1545, Montrose †January 1st, 1622, Sedan

58

Melchior Junius

German university teacher (1545-1604)

*October 27th, 1545, Lutherstadt Wittenberg †January 23rd, 1604, Strasbourg

56

Johannes Dinckel

German theologian

*June 23rd, 1545, Tröchtelborn †December 24th, 1601, Coburg

67

Thomas Bodley

English diplomat and scholar (1545-1613)

*March 2nd, 1545, Exeter †January 28th, 1613, London

58

Janus Dousa

Dutch historian and noble (1545-1604)

*December 6th, 1545, Noordwijk †October 8th, 1604, The Hague

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1545 is a normal year and no leap year.

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