July 28
July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years ) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar , with 156 days remaining.
Events
1493 - Great fire in Moscow
1540 - One of the most important political figures of the reign of Henry VIII of England , Thomas Cromwell , is executed on order from the king on charges of treason . Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard , on the same day.
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution .
1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain .
1864 - American Civil War : Battle of Ezra Church begins - Confederate troops led by General John Bell Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General William T. Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia .
1866 - The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States .
1868 - The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
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 .
1943 - World War II : Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 - A US Army bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
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.
1973 - Watkins Glen, New York concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band , The Allman Brothers Band , and the Grateful Dead .
1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan , China , killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1990 - Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru
1992 - Mary J. Blige releases her album What's the 411? . It is considered the album that started the new subgenre, hip-hop soul (also see 1992 in music ).
1995 - Network Solutions announces a new policy to help companies protect their trademarks on the Internet .
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 .
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal : Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with US President Bill Clinton .
2003 - NPR broadcasts the first episode of Day to Day , a one-hour radio newsmagazine
Births
1618 - Abraham Cowley
1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach , philosopher (d. 1872 )
1866 - Beatrix Potter , author (d. 1943 )
1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine , astronomer (d. 1951 )
1874 - Ernst Cassirer , philosopher (d. 1945 )
1887 - Marcel Duchamp , painter (d. 1968 )
1902 - Karl Popper , philosopher of science (d. 1994 )
1907 - Dolf Sternberger , publicist (d. 1989 )
1907 - Earl Tupper , inventor of Tupperware (d. 1983 )
1909 - Malcolm Lowry , novelist (d. 1957 )
1914 - Carmen Dragon , composer (d. 1984 )
1915 - Frankie Yankovic , musician (d. 1998 )
1916 - David Brown , American motion picture producer
1922 - Jacques Piccard , undersea explorer
1927 - John Ashbery , poet
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , editor and wife of John F. Kennedy (d. 1994 )
1934 - Jacques d'Amboise , dancer, choreographer
1936 - Garfield Sobers , cricketer
1937 - Peter Duchin , pianist, bandleader
1940 - Philip Proctor , comedian
1941 - Riccardo Muti , Italian conductor
1943 - Bill Bradley , basketball player, former United States Senator
1945 - Jim Davis , cartoonist
1949 - Steve Peregrin Took , Singer/Song writer
1952 - Yoshitaka Amano , Japanese artist
1958 - Terry Fox , cancer activist (d. 1981 )
1962 - Rachel Sweet , singer
1964 - Ian Livingston , British businessman
1965 - Lori Loughlin , actress (Full House 1972 - Elizabeth Berkley , actress (Saved by the Bell Showgirls 1977 - Manu Ginobili , Argentine NBA star
1979 - Birgitta Haukdal , Icelandic singer
1987 - Co-Captain Cutthroat Sal , 21st Century pirate captain
Deaths
1057 - Pope Victor II
1230 - Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176 )
1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac , French poet (b. 1619 )
1741 - Antonio Vivaldi , Italian composer (b. 1678 )
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach , German composer (b. 1685 )
1794 - Maximilien Robespierre , French Revolutionary leader
1794 - Louis de Saint-Just , French Revolutionary leader
1842 - Clemens Brentano , German poet (b. 1778 )
1934 - Marie Dressler , Academy Award -winning actress
1957 - Edith Abbott , social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876 )
1969 - Frank Loesser , composer
1972 - Helen Traubel , American soprano (b. 1903 )
1996 - Marguerite "Marge" Ganser , singer (Shangri-Las )
2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding , Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled
2004 - Tiziano Terzani , Italian journalist
2004 - Francis Crick , scientist, co-discoverer of DNA structure (b. 1916 )
2004 - Sam Edwards , American actor (b. 1915 )
Holidays and observances
External links
July 27 - July 29 - June 28 - August 28 -- listing of all days
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