August 28th, 1651

Born on August 28th, 1651

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 136,000 days old!

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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 1651

79

Christoph von Steiger

Swiss politician (1651–1731)

*November 23rd, 1651, Bern †August 18th, 1731, Bern

43

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet

*November 12th, 1651, Nepantla de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz †April 17th, 1695, Mexico City

63

François Fénelon

French archbishop, theologian and writer (1651–1715)

*August 6th, 1651, Sainte-Mondane †January 7th, 1715, Cambrai

71

André Dacier

French scholar (1651-1722)

*April 6th, 1651, Castres †September 18th, 1722, Paris

80

Christian Vater

German botanist, physician, and university teacher (1651–1732)

*November 16th, 1651, Jüterbog †October 6th, 1732, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

65

John Somers, 1st Baron Somers

British Baron

*March 4th, 1651, Claines †April 26th, 1716, North Mymms

87

Samuel Bernard

French financier

*October 29th, 1651, Sancerre †January 18th, 1739, Paris

34

Charles II, Elector Palatine

Elector Palatine from 1680 to 1685

*March 31st, 1651, Heidelberg †May 26th, 1685, Heidelberg

65

Engelbert Kaempfer

German botanist (1651–1716)

*September 16th, 1651, Lemgo †November 2nd, 1716, Lieme

67

Georg Friedrich Meinhart

German theologian (1651-1718)

*April 4th, 1651, Ohrdruf †April 10th, 1718, Arnstadt

80

Balthasar Permoser

German sculptor (1651-1732)

*August 13th, 1651, Traunstein †February 18th, 1732, Dresden

68

Francis Daniel Pastorius

German-born American educator, lawyer, poet, and public official

*September 26th, 1651, Sommerhausen †November 30th, 1719, Germantown

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1651 is a normal year and no leap year.

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