August 28th, 1590

Born on August 28th, 1590

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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 1590

86

Clement X

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676

*July 13th, 1590, Rome †July 22nd, 1676, Rome

53

Johannes Steuber

German theologian (1590-1643)

*January 16th, 1590, Schwickartshausen †February 5th, 1643, Marburg

64

David Blondel

French minister and theologian

*September 25th, 1590, Châlons-en-Champagne †April 6th, 1655, Amsterdam

51

Johann Matthäus Meyfart

German theologian and writer

*November 9th, 1590, Jena †January 26th, 1642, Erfurt

59

Manuel de Faria e Sousa

Portuguese writer and historian (1590-1649)

*March 18th, 1590, Pombeiro de Ribavizela †June 3rd, 1649, Madrid

86

Anne Clifford

Noblewoman; English countess (1590-1676)

*January 30th, 1590, Skipton Castle †March 22nd, 1676, Brougham Castle

68

Johannes Crocius

German protestant theologian (1590-1659)

*July 28th, 1590, Bad Laasphe †July 1st, 1659, Marburg

70

Daniel Seghers

Flemish painter and Jesuit (1590-1661)

*December 3rd, 1590, Antwerp †November 2nd, 1661, Antwerp

72

William Pynchon

Founder of Springfield, Massachusetts 1590-1662

*October 11th, 1590, Springfield †October 29th, 1662

59

Owen Roe O'Neill

Irish soldier

*January 1st, 1590, County Armagh †November 6th, 1649, Cavan

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1590 is a normal year and no leap year.

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