August 28th, 1669

Born on August 28th, 1669

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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 1669

23

Maria Antonia of Austria

Archduchess of Austria (1669-1692)

*January 18th, 1669, Vienna †December 24th, 1692, Vienna

63

Alamanno Salviati

Italian cardinal (1669-1733)

*March 21st, 1669, Florence †February 24th, 1733, Rome

57

Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym

First ruling Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1669-1727)

*June 28th, 1669, Bernburg †May 17th, 1727, Bad Ems

36

George of Hesse-Darmstadt

Governor of Gibraltar (1669-1705)

*April 25th, 1669, Darmstadt †September 14th, 1705, Barcelona

57

Aurora Sanseverino

Italian noblewoman, poet, actress, patron

*April 28th, 1669, Grumento Nova †July 2nd, 1726, Piedimonte Matese

42

Philip William of Brandenburg-Schwedt

First Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and governor of Magdeburg from 1692 to 1711

*May 19th, 1669, Königsberg †December 19th, 1711, Schwedt Palace

49

Leonhard Christoph Sturm

German mathematician (1669-1719)

*November 5th, 1669, Altdorf bei Nürnberg †June 6th, 1719, Blankenburg

58

Pietro Priuli

Italian cardinal

*March 14th, 1669, Venice †January 22nd, 1728, Venice

61

Friederike Elisabeth of Saxe-Eisenach

(1669-1730)

*May 5th, 1669, Altenkirchen (Westerwald) †November 12th, 1730, Bad Langensalza

63

Louis Marchand

French keyboardist and composer

*February 2nd, 1669, Lyon †February 17th, 1732, Paris

72

Magnus Julius De la Gardie

Swedish general and statesman (1669-1741)

*April 14th, 1669, Stockholm †April 28th, 1741, Stockholm

49

Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł

Polish prince (1669-1719)

*November 27th, 1669, Kraków †August 2nd, 1719, Biała Podlaska

58

Anne Marie d'Orléans

Queen Consort of Sardinia (1669-1728)

*August 27th, 1669, Saint-Cloud †August 26th, 1728, Villa della Regina

80

Isaak Steiger

Swiss politician (1669-1749)

*March 7th, 1669, Aarburg †December 20th, 1749, Bern

88

Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow

German general

*December 17th, 1669, Myślibórz †March 28th, 1758, Neuruppin

71

Urban Gottfried Siber

German theologian

*December 12th, 1669, Bad Schandau †June 15th, 1741, Leipzig

33

Charlotte Marie of Saxe-Jena

German noblewoman

*December 20th, 1669, Jena †January 6th, 1703, Gräfentonna

67

Kada no Azumamaro

Poet

*February 3rd, 1669, Fushimi Inari-taisha †August 8th, 1736

70

Gisela Agnes of Rath

Countess of Nienburg; regent of the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen (1669-1740)

*October 9th, 1669 †March 12th, 1740, Nienburg (Saale)

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1669 is a normal year and no leap year.

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