🎂 Writer Goethe is born (1749)
The Goethe House where he was born is furnished with furniture and paintings of the time, showing how young Goethe lived.
Where: Frankfurt, Germany
Nearby on the globe: Cologne Cathedral → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: August 28
August 28, 1749: Writer Goethe is born. On 28 August 1749, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in a house in Frankfurt, Germany. He wrote poems, novels and the play Faust, and he was so curious that he also studied plants and colours.
✨ More events on this day
- 1789 🚀 Astronomer William Herschel discovered Enceladus in 1789, an icy moon of Saturn that we now know shoots fountains of water out into space.
- 1845 🔬 The first issue of Scientific American magazine was published in 1845, and it is now the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.
- 1908 🌿 Bird expert Roger Tory Peterson was born in 1908; his easy-to-use field guides with pictures helped millions of people learn to identify birds.
🧠 Question of the day
Which famous play did Goethe write?
- Faust
- Hamlet
- Peter Pan
Show the answer
Answer: Faust
🎂 Landmarks that opened on August 28
Questions
What happened on August 28?
August 28, 1749: Writer Goethe is born. It happened in Frankfurt, Germany.
Which landmarks opened on August 28?
Shanghai World Financial Center (opened 2008).
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