August 28th, 1674

Born on August 28th, 1674

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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 1674

48

Dimitrie Cantemir

Prince of Moldavia

*October 26th, 1674, Dimitrie Cantemir †August 21st, 1723, Dmitrovsk

74

Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg

German noble (1674-1748)

*April 5th, 1674, Old Cölln †November 22nd, 1748, Römhild

55

Johann Wilhelm Engelbrecht

German jurist (1674-1729)

*January 15th, 1674, Hamelin †September 12th, 1729, Helmstedt

84

Giovanni Antonio Guadagni

Italian cardinal

*September 14th, 1674, Florence †January 15th, 1759, Rome

57

Johann Burckhardt Mencke

German historian and publisher

*April 8th, 1674, Leipzig †April 1st, 1732, Leipzig

69

Jean Barbeyrac

French jurist

*March 15th, 1674, Béziers †March 3rd, 1744, Groningen

66

Jethro Tull

British agricultural pioneer, activist of the British Agricultural Revolution

*March 30th, 1674, Basildon †February 21st, 1741, Hungerford

75

Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan

Catholic cardinal

*June 26th, 1674, Paris †July 19th, 1749, Paris

68

Johann Anderson

German politician and lawyer (1674-1743)

*May 14th, 1674, Hamburg †May 3rd, 1743, Hamburg

91

František Maxmilián Kaňka

Czech architect

*August 9th, 1674, Prague †July 14th, 1766, Prague

61

Jean Ranc

French painter born in Montpellier (1674-1735)

*January 28th, 1674, Montpellier †July 1st, 1735, Madrid

63

Luca Antonio Colomba

Painter (1674-1737)

*November 19th, 1674, Arogno †December 22nd, 1737, Arogno

90

Giampietro Zanotti

Italian painter and poet (1674-1765)

*October 3rd, 1674, Paris †September 28th, 1765, Bologna

50

Marie of Lorraine

Monegasque princess

*August 12th, 1674, Paris †October 30th, 1724, Monaco

76

Christian Gottlieb Schwarz

Dr. phil. Universität Leipzig 1699

*November 30th, 1674, Leisnig †November 30th, 1750, Altdorf bei Nürnberg

44

Nicholas Rowe

English poet, writer (1674-1718)

*June 20th, 1674, Little Barford †December 6th, 1718, London

51

Eleonore von Dönhoff

*October 29th, 1674, Friedrichstein Castle †September 2nd, 1726, Schloss Kossenblatt

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1674 is a normal year and no leap year.

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