August 28th, 1781

Born on August 28th, 1781

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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 1781

67

George Stephenson

English civil and mechanical engineer and the "Father of Railways" (1781-1848)

*June 9th, 1781, 19th arrondissement of Paris †August 12th, 1848, Tapton House

60

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Prussian architect, city planner and painter (1781–1841)

*March 13th, 1781, Neuruppin †October 9th, 1841, Berlin

67

Bernard Bolzano

Bohemian mathematician and priest (1781–1848)

*October 5th, 1781, Prague †December 18th, 1848, Prague

44

Thomas Stamford Raffles

British statesman who founded Singapore (1781-1826)

*July 6th, 1781, Jamaica †July 5th, 1826, London

86

David Brewster

British astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)

*December 11th, 1781, Jedburgh †February 10th, 1868, Melrose

47

Mauro Giuliani

Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer (1781-1829)

*July 27th, 1781, Bisceglie †May 8th, 1829, Naples

50

Ludwig Achim von Arnim

German poet and novelist

*January 26th, 1781, Palais Wrangel †May 21st, 1831, Wiepersdorf manor

42

Eugène de Beauharnais

French nobleman, statesman, and military commander (1781–1824)

*September 3rd, 1781, Paris †February 21st, 1824, Munich

77

Valentín Gómez Farías

President of Mexico (1781-1858)

*February 14th, 1781, Guadalajara †July 5th, 1858, Mexico City

82

Caroline Bardua

German painter (1781–1864)

*November 11th, 1781, Ballenstedt †June 2nd, 1864, Ballenstedt

45

Johann Baptist von Spix

German naturalist (1781-1826)

*January 9th, 1781, Höchstadt an der Aisch †March 13th, 1826, Munich

7

Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France

Prince of France (1781-1789)

*October 22nd, 1781, Versailles †June 4th, 1789, Château de Meudon

51

Karl Christian Friedrich Krause

German philosopher

*May 6th, 1781, Eisenberg †September 27th, 1832, Munich

86

John D. Sloat

Military Governor of California (1781-1867)

*July 26th, 1781, Sloatsburg station †November 28th, 1867, New Brighton

76

Johann Georg Keil

German author (1781-1857)

*March 20th, 1781, Gotha †July 1st, 1857, Leipzig

69

Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este

Austrian archduke (1781-1850)

*April 25th, 1781, Milan †November 5th, 1850, Altmünster

79

Friedrich Tiedemann

German zoologist

*August 23rd, 1781, Kassel †January 22nd, 1861, Munich

74

John M. Berrien

American politician from Georgia, United States (1781-1856)

*August 23rd, 1781, Rocky Hill †January 1st, 1856, Savannah

55

Juan Pedro Aguirre

Politician (1781-1837)

*October 19th, 1781, Buenos Aires †July 17th, 1837, Buenos Aires

81

Cornelius de Greiff

German entrepreneur

*June 8th, 1781, Krefeld †April 16th, 1863, Krefeld

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1781 is a normal year and no leap year.

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