Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 28
This is a list of selected July 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Maximilien de Robespierre -
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just -
Ian Thorpe
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Hepatitis Day | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Peru (1821) | refimprove section |
| Dulquer Salmaan (d. 1986) | refimprove section |
| 1540 – King Henry VIII of England had his chief minister Thomas Cromwell executed for treason and heresy. | refimprove section |
| 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Joseph Bonaparte suffered 7,270 casualties while Sir Arthur Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish army had 6,700 at an inconclusive battle in Talavera, Spain. | needs more footnotes |
| 1896 – Miami, today the principal city and the center of the South Florida metropolitan area, the seventh largest metro area in the United States, was incorporated with a population of just over 300. | Miami: refimprove/unreferenced sections; History of Miami: refimprove |
| 1914 – Austria-Hungary declared war after rejecting Serbia's conditional acceptance of only part of the July Ultimatum following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, starting World War I. | globalize section |
| 1915 – U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince to begin a 20-year occupation of Haiti. | lots of CN tags |
| 1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover ordered the eviction of the "Bonus Army"—a group of veterans who were occupying government property to demand immediate payment for money owed. | lots of CN tags |
| 1973 – About 600,000 people attended what was the largest musical concert in history at the Watkins Glen International Raceway near Watkins Glen, New York. | refimprove |
| 1976 – An earthquake measuring at least 8.2 on the Richter scale, one of the deadliest in history, flattened Tangshan, China, killing at least 240,000 people. | refimprove |
| 1990 – Alberto Fujimori took office as President of Peru, becoming the first person of Japanese descent to be the head of government of a Latin American nation. | refimprove section, confusing section |
Eligible
- 1821 – Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from Spain.
- 1917 – In New York City, the NAACP and church and community leaders organized a silent march of at least 8,000 people to protest violence directed towards African Americans.
- 1935 – The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber, which dropped more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II, made its first flight.
- 1945 – A B-25 Mitchell bomber belonging to the U.S. Army Air Force crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 14 people and causing over $1 million in damage.
- 1995 – Two followers of Rajneesh were convicted for the attempted assassination of the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon.
- 1996 – The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, U.S.
- 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced an end to its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland and create a United Ireland.
- Born/died: Beatrix Potter (b. 1866) · Lucy Burns (b. 1879) · Baruch Samuel Blumberg (b. 1925) · Bill Bradley (b. 1943) · Richard Wright (b. 1943) · Ray Kennedy (b. 1951) · Clara Ng (b. 1973) · Michael Carrick (b. 1981) · Zach Parise (b. 1984) · Ahmed Sofa (d. 2001)
Notes
- Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 1969–97 featured on July 19 so IRA should not appear in the same year.
- July Crisis featured on July 23 so WWI should not appear in the same year.
- Thermidorian Reaction featured on July 27 so Robespierre/Saint-Just should not appear in the same year
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bust of Abraham Lincoln
- 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, architects of the Reign of Terror, were executed after having been arrested the previous day.
- 1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream (pictured) became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
- 1939 – During an excavation of a ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archaeologists discovered a helmet likely belonging to King Rædwald of East Anglia.
- 2001 – At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
- 2010 – In the deadliest air accident in Pakistan's history, Airblue Flight 202 crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, killing all 152 aboard.
Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (b. 1645) · Richard Johns (b. 1939) · Manu Ginóbili (b. 1977)