August 28th, 1757

Born on August 28th, 1757

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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 1757

89

Christophine Reinwald

German artist (1757–1847)

*September 4th, 1757, Marbach am Neckar †August 31st, 1847, Meiningen

64

Johann Matthäus Bechstein

German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist (1757-1822)

*July 11th, 1757, Waltershausen †February 23rd, 1822, Dreißigacker

69

William Blake

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

*November 28th, 1757, London †August 12th, 1827, Charing Cross

47

Alexander Hamilton

American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)

*January 11th, 1757, Charlestown †July 12th, 1804, New York City

97

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

American philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton (1757–1854)

*August 9th, 1757, Albany †November 9th, 1854, Washington, D.C.

40

Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet

French diplomat (1757-1797)

*August 19th, 1757, Baton Rouge †December 17th, 1797, Constantinople

79

Charles X of France

King of France from 1824 to 1830

*October 9th, 1757, Versailles †November 6th, 1836, Gorizia

81

Benjamin Pierce

American politician (1757–1839)

*December 25th, 1757, Chelmsford †April 1st, 1839, Hillsborough County

76

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

French general and politician (1757–1834)

*September 6th, 1757, Chavaniac-Lafayette †May 20th, 1834, former 1st arrondissement of Paris

58

Pierre Augereau

General, Marshal of France (1757-1816)

*October 21st, 1757, Paris †June 12th, 1816, La Houssaye-en-Brie

40

George Vancouver

18th-century English naval explorer

*June 22nd, 1757, King's Lynn †May 10th, 1798, Petersham

86

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804

*May 30th, 1757, London Borough of Camden †February 15th, 1844, White Lodge

61

Erik Acharius

Swedish botanist (1757–1819)

*October 10th, 1757, Gävle Parish †August 14th, 1819, Vadstena church församling

83

John Adair

American politician (1757–1840)

*January 9th, 1757, Chester County †May 19th, 1840, Harrodsburg

48

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

English socialite, style icon, author, and activist

*June 7th, 1757, Althorp †March 30th, 1806, Devonshire House

65

Karl Leonhard Reinhold

Austrian philosopher

*October 26th, 1757, Vienna †April 10th, 1823, Kiel

69

Royall Tyler

American playwright and jurist

*June 18th, 1757, Boston †August 26th, 1826, Brattleboro

77

Georg Christian Franz Kübel

German politician (1757-1834)

*April 6th, 1757, Heilbronn †September 30th, 1834, Heilbronn

55

Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach

German politician (1757-1813)

*August 25th, 1757, Berlin †June 8th, 1813, Berlin

54

Samuel McIntire

American architect (1757-1811)

*January 16th, 1757, Salem †February 6th, 1811, Salem

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1757 is a normal year and no leap year.

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