August 28th, 1623

Born on August 28th, 1623

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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 1623

39

Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623–1662)

*June 19th, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand †August 19th, 1662, Paris

64

William Petty

English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist (1623-1687)

*May 26th, 1623, Romsey †December 16th, 1687, London

49

Cornelis de Witt

Dutch politician (1623-1672)

*June 15th, 1623, Dordrecht †August 20th, 1672, The Hague

64

Ferdinand Verbiest

Flemish Jesuit missionary (1623–1688)

*October 9th, 1623, Pittem †January 28th, 1688, Beijing

58

Michael Heinrich Horn

German chemist (1623-1681)

*August 19th, 1623, Heringen †October 16th, 1681, Leipzig

61

Carpoforo Tencalla

Italian painter (1623-1685)

*September 10th, 1623, Bissone †March 9th, 1685, Bissone

84

Wilhelmus Beekman

Dutch politician

*April 28th, 1623, Hasselt †September 21st, 1707, Rhinebeck

51

Stanisław Lubieniecki

Polish historian, astronomer

*August 23rd, 1623, Raków †May 18th, 1675, Altona

57

Gillis Valckenier

Dutch politician (1623-1680)

*August 13th, 1623, Amsterdam †November 6th, 1680, Amsterdam

63

François Turrettini

Genevan theologian (1623-1687)

*October 17th, 1623, Geneva †September 28th, 1687, Geneva

64

Johannes Colberg

German theologian

*March 31st, 1623, Kołobrzeg †September 19th, 1687, Greifswald

61

Frederick Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg

Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Hanau-Münzenberg (1623-1685)

*August 4th, 1623, Bouxwiller †March 30th, 1685, Hanau

85

François de Laval

Catholic saint, First Bishop of Quebec

*April 30th, 1623, Montigny-sur-Avre †May 6th, 1708, Quebec City

59

Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg

German noble (1623-1683)

*July 14th, 1623, Berlin †June 26th, 1683, Schmalkalden

73

Andreas Herold

*March 16th, 1623, Nuremberg †September 16th, 1696, Dresden

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1623 is a normal year and no leap year.

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