August 28th, 1903

Born on August 28th, 1903

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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 1903

70

Eugénie Söderberg

Swedish-American writer and journalist

*January 1st, 1903, Heidelberg †January 1st, 1973, New York City

53

Preston Tucker

American businessman (1903-1956)

*September 21st, 1903, Michigan †December 26th, 1956, Ypsilanti

74

Bing Crosby

American singer and actor (1903–1977)

*May 3rd, 1903, Tacoma †October 14th, 1977, Alcobendas

84

Marguerite Yourcenar

French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)

*June 8th, 1903, City of Brussels †December 17th, 1987, Bar Harbor

91

Jan Tinbergen

Dutch economist (1903–1994)

*April 12th, 1903, The Hague †June 9th, 1994, The Hague

85

Alan Paton

South African writer and activist (1903-1988)

*January 11th, 1903, Pietermaritzburg †April 12th, 1988, Durban

87

Anne Revere

American actress (1903-1990)

*June 25th, 1903, New York City †December 18th, 1990, Locust Valley

40

Galeazzo Ciano

Italian noble, diplomat and politician (1903-1944)

*March 18th, 1903, Livorno †January 11th, 1944, Verona

65

Theodor W. Adorno

German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)

*September 11th, 1903, Frankfurt †August 6th, 1969, Visp

65

Vernon Duke

American composer (1903-1969)

*October 10th, 1903, Parafjanava †January 16th, 1969, Santa Monica

53

Francis L. Sullivan

British actor (1903-1956)

*January 6th, 1903, London †November 19th, 1956, New York City

74

Aram Khachaturian

Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)

*May 24th, 1903, Tbilisi †May 1st, 1978, Moscow

85

Konrad Lorenz

Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973

*November 7th, 1903, Vienna †February 27th, 1989, Vienna

35

Colette Peignot

French writer (1903-1938)

*October 8th, 1903, Meudon †November 7th, 1938, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

77

Reginald Gardiner

Actor (1903-1980)

*February 27th, 1903, London †July 7th, 1980, Westwood

76

Giulio Natta

Italian chemist

*February 26th, 1903, Porto Maurizio †May 2nd, 1979, Bergamo

87

Olav V of Norway

King of Norway (1903-1991)

*July 2nd, 1903, Appleton House †January 17th, 1991, The Royal Lodge, Holmenkollen

91

Ernest Walton

Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995)

*October 6th, 1903, Abbeyside †June 25th, 1995, Belfast

86

Claude Arrieu

French composer

*November 30th, 1903, 8th arrondissement of Paris †March 7th, 1990, 19th arrondissement of Paris

81

Julie Vlasto

French tennis player (1903-1985)

*April 8th, 1903, Marseille †March 2nd, 1985, Lausanne

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1903 is a normal year and no leap year.

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