August 28th, 1619

Born on August 28th, 1619

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What happened on August 28th, 1619?

August 28th, 1619

Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.

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August 28th, 1619

Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected Holy Roman Emperor.

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What else 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.

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

Born on August 28th, 1619

59

Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon

Duchess of Longueville (1619-1679)

*August 28th, 1619, Château de Vincennes †April 5th, 1679, Paris

Same year
Born in 1619

64

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

French statesman (1619-1683)

*August 29th, 1619, Reims †September 6th, 1683, Paris

36

Cyrano de Bergerac

French novelist and dramatist (1619–1655)

*March 6th, 1619, Paris †July 28th, 1655, Sannois

57

Jan van Riebeeck

Dutch colonial governor (1619–1677)

*April 21st, 1619, Culemborg †January 18th, 1677, Batavia

88

Walter Charleton

English physician, philosopher, and naturalist

*February 2nd, 1619, Shepton Mallet †April 24th, 1707, London

64

Jean Le Vacher

French diplomat and missionary (1619-1683)

*March 15th, 1619, Écouen †July 26th, 1683, Algiers

63

Yamazaki Ansai

Japanese philosopher

*January 24th, 1619, Kyōto †September 16th, 1682, Kyoto

65

Giovan Battista Ruoppolo

Italian painter (1629-1693)

*November 30th, 1619, Naples †November 30th, 1684, Naples

27

Francesco Maria Farnese

Italian cardinal (1619-1647)

*August 8th, 1619, Parma †July 12th, 1647, Parma

68

Philips Koninck

Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1619–1688)

*November 5th, 1619, Amsterdam †October 4th, 1688, Amsterdam

58

Anders Bording

Danish poet and journalist

*January 21st, 1619, Ribe †May 24th, 1677, Copenhagen

69

Marcantonio Giustinian

Doge of Venice

*March 2nd, 1619, Venice †March 23rd, 1688, Venice

74

Willem Kalf

Dutch painter (1619–1693)

*January 1st, 1619, Rotterdam †July 31st, 1693, Amsterdam

63

Michelangelo Ricci

Italian mathematician and Roman Catholic Cardinal

*January 30th, 1619, Rome †May 12th, 1682, Rome

50

Jan Victors

Dutch Golden Age painter (1619–1676)

*June 13th, 1619, Amsterdam †November 30th, 1669, Dutch East Indies

70

Johann Peter Titz

German educationist and poet (1619-1689)

*January 10th, 1619, Legnica †September 7th, 1689, Gdańsk

68

Antoine Furetière

French writer and scholar (1619-1688)

*December 28th, 1619, Paris †May 14th, 1688, Paris

50

Florentius Schuyl

Botanist (1619-1669)

*January 13th, 1619, Schiedam †September 5th, 1669

70

Philipp von Zesen

German poet

*October 8th, 1619, Priorau †November 13th, 1689, Hamburg

72

Wang Fuzhi

Chinese essayist, historian and philosopher (1619–1692)

*October 7th, 1619, Hengyang †February 18th, 1692

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No: With 365 days 1619 is a normal year and no leap year.

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