August 28th, 1765

Born on August 28th, 1765

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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 1765

71

William IV

King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837

*August 21st, 1765, Buckingham Palace †June 20th, 1837, Windsor Castle

72

Thomas Attwood

English composer and organist

*November 23rd, 1765, London †March 24th, 1838, London

78

Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon

Marshal of France (1765-1844)

*July 29th, 1765, Reims †January 25th, 1844, Paris

80

Gregory XVI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846

*September 18th, 1765, Belluno †June 1st, 1846, Rome

49

Robert Fulton

American engineer and inventor (1765–1815)

*November 14th, 1765, Little Britain Township †February 24th, 1815, New York City

50

Václav Thám

Czech playwright and actor

*October 26th, 1765, Prague †January 1st, 1816, Galicia

68

Karl Ludwig Harding

German astronomer (1765-1834)

*September 29th, 1765, Lauenburg/Elbe †August 31st, 1834, Göttingen

78

Martín Fernández de Navarrete

Spanish sailor and historian

*November 9th, 1765, Ábalos †October 8th, 1844, Madrid

82

Petros Mavromichalis

Greek notable of Mani, revolutionary army leader, and politician

*August 6th, 1765, Areopoli †January 1st, 1848, Athens

59

Pierre Margaron

French soldier (1765-1824)

*May 1st, 1765, Lyon †December 16th, 1824, Paris

66

James Mackintosh

British politician (1765-1832)

*October 24th, 1765, Inverness †May 30th, 1832, London

83

Jan Kops

Dutch botanist (1765-1849)

*March 6th, 1765, Amsterdam †January 9th, 1849, Utrecht

75

Isidro González Velázquez

Spanish architect

*May 15th, 1765, Madrid †December 7th, 1840, Madrid

28

Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille

French noble

*September 27th, 1765, Paris †January 27th, 1794, Laval

40

Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

Portuguese writer

*September 15th, 1765, Setúbal †December 21st, 1805, Lisbon

57

Daniel Steibelt

German pianist and composer

*October 22nd, 1765, Berlin †October 2nd, 1823, Saint Petersburg

76

Franz Xaver von Baader

German philosopher and theologian (1765-1841)

*March 27th, 1765, Munich †May 23rd, 1841, Munich

81

Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann

German chemist (1765-1846)

*January 20th, 1765, Königerode †September 1st, 1846, Schönebeck

51

Samuel Huntington

American politician; Governor of Ohio (1765-1817)

*October 4th, 1765, Coventry †June 8th, 1817, Painesville

52

Alois von Reding

Swiss noble (1765-1818)

*March 6th, 1765, Schwyz †February 5th, 1818, Schwyz

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1765 is a normal year and no leap year.

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