August 28th, 1796

Born on August 28th, 1796

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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, 1796

71

Urban Kreutzbach

Organ builder (1796-1868)

*August 28th, 1796, Copenhagen †August 22nd, 1868, Borna

Same year
Born in 1796

71

Franz Berwald

Swedish composer

*July 23rd, 1796, Stockholm †April 3rd, 1868, Stockholm

66

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

New Zealand politician (1796-1862)

*March 20th, 1796, London †May 16th, 1862, Wellington

77

Adolphe Quetelet

Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist (1796-1874)

*February 22nd, 1796, Ghent †February 17th, 1874, City of Brussels

53

Michał Mycielski

Brigadier general (1796–1849)

*June 24th, 1796, Berlin †September 27th, 1849, Maincy

43

Charles Follen

German-American educator

*September 6th, 1796, Romrod †January 13th, 1840, Long Island Sound

63

Horace Mann

American politician (1796-1859)

*May 4th, 1796, Franklin †August 2nd, 1859, Yellow Springs

21

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales

British princess (1796-1817); only child of George, Prince of Wales (later King George IV)

*January 7th, 1796, Carlton House †November 6th, 1817, Claremont

61

Daniel Elster

Composer and choir director (1796-1857)

*September 16th, 1796, Benshausen †December 19th, 1857, Wettingen

80

Fernán Caballero

Spanish women novelist

*December 24th, 1796, Morges †April 7th, 1877, Seville

77

Manuel Bretón de los Herreros

Spanish dramatist, poet, and journalist

*January 1st, 1796, Quel, La Rioja †January 1st, 1873, Madrid

90

Asher Brown Durand

American painter and engraver (1796-1886)

*August 21st, 1796, Maplewood †September 17th, 1886, Maplewood

82

Giorgio Pallavicino Trivulzio

Italian politician (1796-1878)

*April 24th, 1796, Milan †August 4th, 1878, Casteggio

56

Robert James Graves

Irish surgeon (1796–1853)

*March 27th, 1796, Dublin †March 20th, 1853, Dublin

75

Robert Wight

Scottish surgeon, botanist and botanical collector (1796-1872)

*July 6th, 1796, East Lothian †May 26th, 1872, Reading

61

Charles FitzRoy

British military officer (1796–1858)

*June 10th, 1796, Derbyshire †February 16th, 1858, London

52

Stephan Ludwig Roth

Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, pedagogue and Lutheran pastor (1796-1849)

*November 24th, 1796, Mediaș †May 11th, 1849, Cluj-Napoca

69

Philippe Buchez

French historian, sociologist, and politician (1796-1865)

*March 31st, 1796, Matagne-la-Petite †August 11th, 1865, Rodez

76

John Torrey

U.S. botanist (1796–1873)

*August 15th, 1796, New York City †March 10th, 1873, New York City

65

John Stevens Henslow

British botanist, priest and geologist (1796-1861)

*February 6th, 1796, Rochester †May 16th, 1861, Hitcham

50

Casimir de Scorbiac

French catholic priest and vicar general

*March 4th, 1796, Montauban †October 1st, 1846, Montauban

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Leap year

Yes: 1796 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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