August 28th, 1819

Born on August 28th, 1819

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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 1819

90

Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb

Faroese folklorist and linguist, Lutheran clergyman

*March 25th, 1819, Sandavágur †April 8th, 1909, Copenhagen

81

Victoria

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901

*May 24th, 1819, Kensington Palace †January 22nd, 1901, Osborne House

61

Jacques Offenbach

German-born French composer (1819–1880)

*June 20th, 1819, Cologne †October 5th, 1880, Paris

72

Herman Melville

American writer and poet (1819–1891)

*August 1st, 1819, Manhattan †September 28th, 1891, New York City

72

Walt Whitman

American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)

*May 31st, 1819, West Hills †March 26th, 1892, Camden

70

Gottfried Keller

Swiss poet and writer of German literature (1819-1890)

*July 19th, 1819, Zürich †July 15th, 1890, Zürich

61

George Eliot

English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880)

*November 22nd, 1819, Nuneaton †December 22nd, 1880, London

81

Edward Stafford

Prime Minister of New Zealand (1819-1901)

*April 23rd, 1819, Edinburgh †February 14th, 1901, London

93

Harriet Tubman

African-American abolitionist (1822–1913)

*November 30th, 1819, Dorchester County †March 10th, 1913, Auburn

72

John Couch Adams

English mathematician and astronomer (1819–1892)

*June 5th, 1819, Laneast †January 21st, 1892, Cambridge

76

Clara Schumann

German musician and composer

*September 13th, 1819, Leipzig †May 20th, 1896, Frankfurt

42

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Prince consort of the United Kingdom (1840-1861)

*August 26th, 1819, Schloss Rosenau †December 14th, 1861, Windsor Castle

76

Hippolyte Fizeau

French physicist (1819-1896)

*September 23rd, 1819, Paris †September 18th, 1896, château de Venteuil

78

Theodor Fontane

German novelist and poet (1819-1898)

*December 30th, 1819, Neuruppin †September 20th, 1898, Berlin

72

Annibale de Gasparis

Italian astronomer (1819-1892)

*November 9th, 1819, Bugnara †March 21st, 1892, Naples

53

Stanisław Moniuszko

Polish composer (1819–1872)

*May 5th, 1819, Ubiel †June 4th, 1872, Warsaw

91

Julia Ward Howe

American abolitionist, social activist, and poet

*May 27th, 1819, New York City †October 17th, 1910, Portsmouth

72

James Russell Lowell

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

*February 22nd, 1819, Cambridge †August 12th, 1891, Cambridge

76

Franz von Suppé

Austrian composer and conductor (1819-1895)

*April 18th, 1819, Split †May 21st, 1895, Vienna

37

Preston Brooks

South Carolina politician. (1819–1857)

*August 5th, 1819, Edgefield †January 27th, 1857, Washington, D.C.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1819 is a normal year and no leap year.

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