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July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years ) of the year in the Gregorian calendar , with 156 days remaining.
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1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances
5 External links
Events 1493 - Great fire in Moscow .
1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason . Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard , on the same day.
1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture , en route to Virginia .
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution .
1809 - Peninsular War : Battle of Talavera - Sir Arthur Wellesley 's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a much larger French force under Joseph Bonaparte .
1821 - Peru : Jose de San Martin declares independence from Spain .
1864 - American Civil War : Battle of Ezra Church - The battle begins on this day when Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia .
1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States .
1873 - The Japanese government implements land and tax reform as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
1878 - Great Britain's William Gowland becomes the first non-Japanese to reach Yarigatake peak (3,180 meters), and he names the mountain the Japanese Alps , a name that is eventually used to refer to the entire mountain range.
1896 - The City of Miami is incorporated.
1914 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war .
1932 - US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army " of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC .
1942 - World War II : USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia . Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.
1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 - A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
1955 - The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
1958 - Lord Jellicoe makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords .
1965 - Vietnam War : US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan , the People's Republic of China , killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1996 - Kennewick Man , the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington .
1997 - Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty .
2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania , were rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (The PIRA) call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland .
2005 - A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham , England , causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
Births 1659 - Charles Ancillon , French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715 )
1746 - Thomas Heyward, Jr. , American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809 )
1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach , German philosopher (d. 1872 )
1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins , English poet (d. 1889 )
1857 - Ballington Booth , co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940 )
1860 - Elias M. Ammons , governor of Colorado (d. 1925 )
1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski , Russian general (d. 1919 )
1866 - Beatrix Potter , English author (d. 1943 )
1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine , American-born astronomer (d. 1951 )
1872 - Albert Sarraut , French politician (d. 1962 )
1874 - Ernst Cassirer , German philosopher (d. 1945 )
1887 - Marcel Duchamp , French painter (d. 1968 )
1896 - Barbara La Marr , American actress (d. 1926 )
1901 - Rudy Vallee , American entertainer (d. 1986 )
1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons , American baseball player (d. 1979 )
1902 - Karl Popper , Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994 )
1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov , Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1990 )
1907 - Earl Tupper , American inventor (d. 1983 )
1909 - Malcolm Lowry , English novelist (d. 1957 )
1914 - Carmen Dragon , American composer (d. 1984 )
1914 - Woody Strode , American actor (d. 1994 )
1915 - Charles Townes , American physicist, Nobel laureate
1915 - Frankie Yankovic , American musician (d. 1998 )
1916 - David Brown , American film producer
1922 - Jacques Piccard , Belgian-born undersea explorer
1925 - Baruch S. Blumberg , American scientist, Nobel laureate
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 bluesman (d. 1998 )
1934 - Jacques d'Amboise , American choreographer
1935 - Simon Dee , British television broadcaster
1936 - Russ Jackson , Canadian football player
1936 - Garfield Sobers , Barbadian West Indies cricketer
1938 - Alberto Fujimori , President of Peru
1940 - Philip Proctor , American comedian
1941 - Riccardo Muti , Italian conductor
1942 - Marty Brennaman , American sportscaster
1943 - Mike Bloomfield , American musician (d. 1981 )
1943 - Bill Bradley , American basketball player and politician
1943 - Richard Wright English musician (Pink Floyd )
1945 - Jim Davis , American cartoonist
1946 - Fahmida Riaz , Pakistani writer and feminist
1946 - Linda Kelsey , American actress
1948 - Georgia Engel , American actress
1948 - Sally Struthers , American actress
1949 - Steve Peregrin Took , English singer (d. 1980 )
1949 - Vida Blue , American baseball player
1951 - Anthony A. Williams , Mayor of Washington, D.C.
1951 - Santiago Calatrava , Spanish architect
1952 - Yoshitaka Amano , Japanese artist
1952 - Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
1954 - Steve Morse , American guitarist
1954 - Hugo Chávez , President of Venezuela
1954 - Bruce Abbott , American actor
1954 - Gerd Faltings , German mathematician
1955 - Nikolay Zimyatov , Russian cross-country skier
1958 - Terry Fox , Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981 )
1961 - Alexander Kurlovitch , Soviet weightlifter
1962 - Rachel Sweet , American singer
1964 - Lori Loughlin , American actress
1966 - Armando J. Tirado , American lawyer
1968 - Taka Hirose , Japanese musician (Feeder )
1969 - Garth Snow , American ice hockey player
1969 - Alexis Arquette , American actor
1970 - Michael Amott , Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy )
1971 - Stephen Lynch , American musician
1972 - Elizabeth Berkley , American actress
1972 - Ed Templeton , American skateboarder
1972 - Yeom Jeong-ah , South Korean actress
1973 - Steve Staios , Canadian ice hockey player
1974 - Justin Lee Collins , British comedian
1975 - Leonor Watling , Spanish actress and singer
1976 - Jacoby Shaddix , American singer (Papa Roach )
1977 - Tiago Andres Vaz , Brazilian composer
1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili , Argentine basketball player
1977 - Aki Berg , Finnish ice hockey player
1979 - Lee Minwoo , Korean singer (Shinhwa )
1979 - Birgitta Haukdal , Icelandic singer
1981 - Michael Carrick , English footballer
1981 - Jo In Sung , South Korean actor
1982 - Julian Allen , American heartthrob
1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir , Icelandic singer and actress
1984 - DeMeco Ryans , American football player
1984 - Zach Parise , American ice hockey player
1985 - Dustin Milligan , Canadian actor
1986 - Alexandra Chando , American actress
1988 - Ayla Brown , American singer
Deaths 450 - Theodosius II , Roman Emperor (b. 401 )
1057 - Pope Victor II
1128 - William Clito , Count of Flanders (b. 1102 )
1230 - Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176 )
1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia , consort of Leo III of Armenia
1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas , Spanish conquistador
1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex , English statesman
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 de Saint-Just , French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767 )
1818 - Gaspard Monge , French mathematician (b. 1746 )
1835 - Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier , French marshal (b. 1768 )
1842 - Clemens Brentano , German poet (b. 1778 )
1844 - Joseph Bonaparte , older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768 )
1849 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798 )
1869 - Jan Evangelista Purkyně , Czech anatomist (b. 1787 )
1878 - George Law Curry , Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820 )
1930 - Allvar Gullstrand , Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862 )
1934 - Marie Dressler , Canadian actress (b. 1868 )
1942 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie , English Egyptologist (b. 1853 )
1957 - Edith Abbott , American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876 )
1965 - Edogawa Ranpo , Japanese author (b. 1894 )
1967 - Karl W. Richter , Lieutenant, USAF , American aviator (b. 1942 )
1968 - Otto Hahn , German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879 )
1969 - Ramón Grau , Cuban president (b. 1882 )
1971 - Myril Hoag , American baseball player (b. 1908 )
1972 - Helen Traubel , American soprano (b. 1903 )
1972 - Charu Majumdar , Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918 )
1982 - Keith Green , American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953 )
1996 - Marguerite "Marge" Ganser , American singer (Shangri-Las ) (b. 1948 )
1999 - Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911 )
2000 - Abraham Pais , Dutch-born American physicist and science historian (b. 1918 )
2002 - Archer John Porter Martin , English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910 )
2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding , Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b. 1918 )
2004 - Francis Crick , English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916 )
2004 - Sam Edwards , American actor (b. 1915 )
2004 - Tiziano Terzani , Italian journalist (b. 1938 )
2006 - David Gemmell , fantasy writer (b. 1948 )
Holidays and observances Liturgical feasts
Roman Catholicism
Saint Celsus & Saint Nazarius
Saint Botwid , martyr [Scandinavia]
Saint Camelianus (Himerius), bishop of Troyes [Troyes]
Saint Innocent I , pope
Saint Michael Abba Ghebra , martyr
Saints Nazarius and Celsus , martyrs [common; Switzerland, France, Orden; in red]
Saint Pantaleon , martyr [common]
Saint Peregrinus , priest, confessor [Lyon]
Saint Samson , bishop of Dol , confessor [common; northern France, England, Scotland; England]
Seven Sleepers , martyrs [Gnesen]
Saint Ursus , abbot, confessor [Tours]
St. Victor and Innocent, popes, martyrs [Orden; (without Innocent)]
Saint Ada
Saint Anne [Paris, in red]
Translation of Saint Columba , virgin at Sens , martyr [Sens]
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