July 28

July 28 in recent years

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2023 (Friday)

2022 (Thursday)

2021 (Wednesday)

2020 (Tuesday)

2019 (Sunday)

2018 (Saturday)

2017 (Friday)

2016 (Thursday)

2015 (Tuesday)

July 28 is the 209th day of the year (210th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 156 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and of the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
• 1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
• 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
• 1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church – Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is certified, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
• 1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• 1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
• 1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
• 1933 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
• 1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
• 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be immediately executed.
• 1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
• 1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
• 1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
• 1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
• 1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
• 1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
• 1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
• 1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations.
• 1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
• 2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
• 2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
• 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
• 2005 – Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
• 2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
• 2010 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.

Births

• 1347 – Queen Margaret of Durazzo (d. 1412)
• 1643 – Antonio Tarsia, Slovenian composer (d. 1722)
• 1659 – Charles Ancillon, French pastor (d. 1715)
• 1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr., American signatory (d. 1809)
• 1750 – Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician (d. 1794)
• 1796 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian piano manufacturer (d. 1859)
• 1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1815 – Stefan Dunjov, Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
• 1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
• 1857 – Ballington Booth, English-born Salvation Army officer (d. 1940)
• 1860 – Elias M. Ammons, American politician (d. 1925)
• 1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
• 1863 – Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
• 1866 – Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
• 1867 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born Argentine astronomer (d. 1951)
• 1872 – Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
• 1874 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
• 1879 – Lucy Burns, American suffragist (d. 1966)
• 1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
• 1891 – Ron Oxenham, Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
• 1896 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
• 1898 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1901 – Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
• 1901 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
• 1902 – Karl Popper, Austrian-born English philosopher (d. 1994)
• 1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
• 1909 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
• 1909 – Aenne Burda German publisher (d. 2005)
• 1914 – Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1916 – David Brown, American film producer (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Ray Ellis, American record producer and arranger (d. 2008)
• 1924 – C.T. Vivian, American activist
• 1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Charlie Biddle, American-born Canadian bassist (d. 2003)
• 1927 – John Ashbery, American poet
• 1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
• 1930 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Junior Kimbrough, American guitarist and vocalist (d. 1998)
• 1930 – Ramsey Muir Withers, Canadian military figure
• 1931 – Johnny Martin, Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
• 1932 – Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator
• 1933 – Charlie Hodge, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1934 – Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer
• 1935 – Simon Dee, English TV broadcaster (d. 2009)
• 1936 – Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
• 1936 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer
• 1937 – Francis Veber, French director and screenwriter
• 1938 – Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian politician
• 1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician
• 1938 – Ian McCaskill, Scottish weather forecaster
• 1938 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
• 1940 – Philip Proctor, American comedian
• 1941 – Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
• 1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
• 1941 – Susan Roces, Filipina actress
• 1942 – Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
• 1942 – Tonia Marketaki, Greek director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
• 1943 – Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist (d. 1981)
• 1943 – Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
• 1943 – Richard Wright, English keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist
• 1946 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
• 1946 – Linda Kelsey, American actress
• 1946 – Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
• 1948 – Gerald Casale, American musician and director (Devo)
• 1948 – Georgia Engel, American actress
• 1948 – Sally Struthers, American actress
• 1949 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
• 1949 – Vida Blue, American baseball player
• 1949 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
• 1949 – Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and producer
• 1950 – Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
• 1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
• 1951 – Doug Collins, American basketball player and coach
• 1951 – Anthony A. Williams, American politician
• 1952 – Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
• 1952 – Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
• 1953 – Don Black, American radical
• 1954 – Bruce Abbott, American actor
• 1954 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
• 1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
• 1954 – Steve Morse, American guitarist (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple)
• 1954 – Mikey Sheehy, Irish Gaelic footballer
• 1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
• 1956 – John Feinstein, American sportswriter, author and commentator
• 1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981)
• 1958 – Michael Hitchcock, American actor
• 1959 – William T. Vollman, American novelist and essayist
• 1960 – Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
• 1960 – Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese cartoonist
• 1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
• 1961 – Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
• 1961 – Harlem Yu, Taiwanese singer and songwriter
• 1962 – Rachel Sweet, American singer
• 1963 – Beverley Craven, English singer
• 1964 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
• 1965 – Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1965 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American trombonist and record producer
• 1966 – Shikao Suga, Japanese singer and songwriter
• 1967 – Taka Hirose, Japanese bassist (Feeder)
• 1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey player
• 1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actor
• 1969 – Dana White, American sports executive
• 1970 – Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
• 1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
• 1970 – Paul Strang, Zimbabwian cricketer
• 1971 – Stephen Lynch, American comedian, singer and songwriter
• 1971 – Annie Perreault, Canadian speed skater
• 1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
• 1972 – Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
• 1972 – Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
• 1972 – Robert Chapman, English cricketer
• 1973 – Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 – Marc Dupré, Canadian humorist and singer
• 1974 – Justin Lee Collins, English comedian
• 1975 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
• 1976 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
• 1977 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
• 1977 – Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1977 – Rahman “Rock” Harper, American restauranteur
• 1978 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer and songwriter
• 1978 – Jacob Oram, New Zealand cricketer
• 1979 – Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
• 1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
• 1979 – Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
• 1979 – Alena Popchanka, French swimmer
• 1979 – James Piotr Montague, English writer and journalist
• 1980 – Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
• 1980 – Noel Sullivan, Welsh reality TV contestant
• 1981 – Nancy Alexiadi, Greek singer
• 1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
• 1981 – Zo In Sung, South Korean actor
• 1982 – Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
• 1982 – Tom Pelphrey, American actor
• 1983 – Cody Hay, Canadian figure skater
• 1983 – Dhanush, Indian actor, singer and lyricist
• 1984 – DeMeco Ryans, American football player
• 1984 – Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
• 1984 – John David Washington, American actor and football player
• 1985 – Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
• 1985 – Sharifah Sofia, Malaysian actress
• 1986 – Alexandra Chando, American actress
• 1986 – Lauri Korpikoski, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1987 – Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Sumire, Japanese fashion model (d. 2009)
• 1988 – Ayla Brown, American singer
• 1990 – Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Shana Swash, English actress
• 1990 – Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, American rapper
• 1992 – George Spencer-Churchill, Earl of Sunderland
• 1993 – Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
• 1993 – Cher Lloyd, English singer and rapper
• 1993 – Harry Kane, English footballer

Deaths

• 450 – Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
• 1057 – Pope Victor II (b. c. 1018)
• 1128 – William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
• 1230 – Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
• 1285 – Keran, Queen of Armenia
• 1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
• 1540 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
• 1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
• 1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
• 1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
• 1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
• 1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
• 1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
• 1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
• 1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
• 1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
• 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
• 1794 – Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
• 1809 – Richard Beckett, English soldier (b.1772)
• 1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
• 1835 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
• 1836 – Nathan Mayer Rothschild, English financier (b. 1777)
• 1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
• 1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I (b. 1768)
• 1849 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
• 1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
• 1878 – George Law Curry, American publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
• 1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
• 1933 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1890)
• 1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
• 1934 – Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1942 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
• 1957 – Edith Abbott, American social worker (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli professor (b. 1876)
• 1965 – Edogawa Rampo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
• 1965 – Sheikh Attallah Suheimat, Jordanian leader (b. 1875)
• 1967 – Karl W. Richter, American aviator (b. 1942)
• 1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
• 1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban politician (b. 1882)
• 1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian soldier and diplomat (b. 1890)
• 1971 – Charles E. Pont, American painter and printmaker (b. 1898)
• 1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
• 1972 – Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
• 1979 – Charles Shadwell, English bandleader (b. 1898)
• 1979 – Don Miller, American college football player (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Fr. Stanley Rother, American priest and missionary (b. 1935)
• 1982 – Keith Green, American singer and pianist (b. 1953)
• 1990 – Jill Esmond, English actress (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
• 1997 – Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
• 1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi writer (b. 1943)
• 2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
• 2004 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Patrick Allen, English actor and voice actor (b. 1927)
• 2006 – David Gemmell, English writer (b. 1948)
• 2007 – Karl Gotch, Belgian wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Jim LeRoy, American pilot (b. 1961)
• 2008 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1977)
• 2009 – Jim Johnson, American football coach (b. 1941)
• 2009 – Reverend Ike, American televangelist (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Ivy Bean, English internet celebrity (b. 1905)
• 2010 – George P. Lee, church leader and criminal (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Abdul Fatah Younis, Libyan regime member (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alphonsa Muttathupadathu
  • Nazarius and Celsus
  • Pantaleon
  • July 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval (Canada)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Peru from Spain by General San Martín in 1821. (Peru)
• Liberation Day (San Marino)
• National Tree Planting Day (Australian schools)
• Ólavsøka Eve (Faroe Islands)
• World Hepatitis Day (International)
• Scouts Memorial Day (Philippines)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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