August 28th, 1720

Born on August 28th, 1720

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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

Born on August 28th, 1720

63

Anton Tischbein

German painter (1720-1784)

*August 28th, 1720, Haina †July 26th, 1784, Hamburg

Same year
Born in 1720

85

Carlo Gozzi

Italian playwright (1720-1806)

*December 13th, 1720, Venice †April 4th, 1806, Venice

57

Anna Maria Mozart

Mother of Maria Anna ("Nannerl") and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

*December 25th, 1720, St. Gilgen †July 3rd, 1778, Paris

77

Vilna Gaon

Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and Talmudist (1720–1797)

*April 23rd, 1720, Sialiec †October 9th, 1797, Vilnius

30

Sakuramachi

Emperor of Japan (1720-1750)

*February 8th, 1720, Kyoto †May 28th, 1750, Kyoto

71

Heinrich Friedrich Delius

German physician, naturalist and chemist (1720-1791)

*July 8th, 1720, Wernigerode †October 22nd, 1791, Erlangen

55

Christoph Friedrich Schott

German theologian

*April 13th, 1720, Burgstetten †June 18th, 1775, Tübingen

57

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Painter, engraver and draughtsman (1720-1778)

*August 17th, 1720, Valenciennes †January 4th, 1778, City of Brussels

72

Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin

French politician (1720-1792)

*March 24th, 1720, Périgueux †September 16th, 1792, Spa

57

Samuel Foote

British dramatist

*January 27th, 1720, Truro †October 21st, 1777, Dover

51

John Woolman

American Quaker preacher and writer

*October 19th, 1720, New Jersey †October 7th, 1772, York

83

Gian Francesco Albani

Catholic cardinal (1775–1803)

*February 26th, 1720, Rome †September 15th, 1803, Rome

82

Johann Joachim Busch

German architect

*September 18th, 1720, Schwerin †December 27th, 1802, Plau am See

67

José de Gálvez

Spanish lawyer (1720-1787)

*January 2nd, 1720, Macharaviaya †June 17th, 1787, Aranjuez

75

Sarah Scott

British writer

*September 21st, 1720, Yorkshire †November 3rd, 1795, Norwich

48

Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel

German university teacher (1720-1769)

*May 4th, 1720, Krebs †February 4th, 1769, Freiberg

72

Martin Gerbert

German scholar

*August 11th, 1720, Horb am Neckar †May 13th, 1793, St. Blasien

79

Nicolas-Henri Jardin

French architect in Denmark (1720-1799)

*March 22nd, 1720, Bussy-Saint-Martin †August 31st, 1799, Paris

72

Gilbert White

18th-century English priest and naturalist; (1720-1793)

*July 18th, 1720, Selborne †June 26th, 1793, Selborne

77

Heraclius II of Georgia

Georgian monarch; King of Kakheti (1744–62), King of Kartli and Kakheti (1762–98)

*November 7th, 1720, Telavi †January 11th, 1798, Telavi

83

Henrik Adam Brockenhuus

Danish courtier, local administrator in Zealand

*May 30th, 1720, Hamar Municipality †June 11th, 1803, Jungshovedgaard

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Leap year

Yes: 1720 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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