August 28th, 1592

Born on August 28th, 1592

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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 1592

50

Hong Taiji

1st emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1592-1643)

*November 28th, 1592, Hetu Ala City †September 21st, 1643, Manchuria

43

Wilhelm Schickard

German astronomer, mathematician

*April 22nd, 1592, Herrenberg †October 24th, 1635, Tübingen

60

Ferdinand Geizkofler

Baron and director of the court chancellery of Württemberg (1592-1653)

*June 19th, 1592, Augsburg †February 2nd, 1653, Regensburg

68

Pierre d'Hozier

French genealogist (1592-1660)

*July 10th, 1592, Marseille †December 1st, 1660, Paris

61

Cornelis Bicker

Dutch regency and politician (1592-1654)

*October 25th, 1592, Amsterdam †September 15th, 1654, Amsterdam

56

Wilhelm Leyser

German theologian

*October 26th, 1592, Brunswick †February 8th, 1649, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

71

Jacopo Vignali

Italian painter (1592-1664)

*September 5th, 1592, Pratovecchio †August 3rd, 1664, Florence

70

Johan Printz

Swedish military and governor of New Sweden

*July 20th, 1592, Jönköping †May 3rd, 1663, Jönköping

86

Roger Conant

American city founder

*April 9th, 1592, England †January 1st, 1679, Massachusetts

74

Johann Adam Schall von Bell

German astronomer and Jesuit missionary active in China

*May 1st, 1592, Lüftelberg †August 15th, 1666, Beijing

63

Krzysztof Arciszewski

Polish-Lithuanian general

*December 9th, 1592, Rogalin †April 7th, 1656, Gdańsk

84

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle

English polymath and aristocrat (1592-1676)

*December 6th, 1592, Handsworth †December 25th, 1676, Welbeck

49

Anton Wolff von Todenwarth

*January 1st, 1592, Speyer †January 1st, 1641

42

Johannes Kempf

*October 18th, 1592, Marburg †June 25th, 1635

62

John Southworth

English martyr

*January 1st, 1592, Lancashire †June 28th, 1654, Tyburn

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Leap year

Yes: 1592 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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