August 28th, 1783

Born on August 28th, 1783

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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 1783

47

Simón Bolívar

South American military and political leader, protagonist of the Spanish-American emancipation against the Spanish Empire (1783-1830)

*July 24th, 1783, Birthplace of Simón Bolívar †December 17th, 1830, Quinta de San Pedro Alejandrino

59

Stendhal

19th century French writer

*January 23rd, 1783, Grenoble †March 23rd, 1842, Paris

76

Wilhelm Pfeil

German forestry scientist

*March 28th, 1783, Friesdorf †September 4th, 1859, Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój

59

Caroline Tischbein

German drawer

*November 5th, 1783, Bad Arolsen †April 29th, 1843, Berlin

54

Hortense de Beauharnais

Queen consort of the Netherlands

*April 10th, 1783, Paris †October 5th, 1837, Arenenberg

66

Friedrich Knie

(1784-1850)

*November 30th, 1783, Erfurt †November 30th, 1849, Burgdorf

79

Sylvester Churchill

Inspector General of the U.S. Army

*August 2nd, 1783, Woodstock †December 7th, 1862, Washington, D.C.

60

John Claudius Loudon

Scottish botanist (1783-1843)

*April 8th, 1783, Cambuslang †December 14th, 1843, Bayswater

70

Ernst Gottfried Adolf Böckel

German theologian

*April 1st, 1783, Gdańsk †January 5th, 1854, Oldenburg

82

Ferdinand, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

*April 26th, 1783, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe †March 24th, 1866, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe

42

Reginald Heber

English clergyman, Lord Bishop of Calcutta

*April 21st, 1783, Hodnet Hall †April 3rd, 1826, Tiruchirappalli

72

Benedetto Pistrucci

Italian engraver (1783–1855)

*May 29th, 1783, Rome †September 16th, 1855, Englefield Green

69

William Tierney Clark

English civil engineer

*August 23rd, 1783, Bristol †September 22nd, 1852, Hammersmith

24

Jacob Merz

Swiss painter

*April 7th, 1783, Hirslanden †October 2nd, 1807, Vienna

70

George Watterston

Librarian of Congress (1783-1854)

*October 23rd, 1783, New York Harbor †February 4th, 1854, Washington, D.C.

36

Curro Guillén

Spanish torero (1783-1820)

*November 16th, 1783, Utrera †May 21st, 1820, Ronda

78

Bernardus Franciscus Suerman

Dutch author (1783-1862)

*October 4th, 1783, Haarlem †February 11th, 1862, Utrecht

84

Johann Friedrich Danneil

German archaeologist and prehistorian

*February 18th, 1783, Kalbe (Milde) †January 20th, 1868, Salzwedel

77

Friedrich Dotzauer

German composer

*January 20th, 1783, Häselrieth †March 6th, 1860, Dresden

34

Federigo Zuccari

Italian astronomer, director of the Observatory of Naples (1783-1817)

*August 26th, 1783, Isola del Liri †December 15th, 1817, Barra

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1783 is a normal year and no leap year.

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