July 28: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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 - 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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 - Summer Jam at Watkins Glen rock festival attended by 600,000 to see The Allman Brothers Band, The 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.
• 2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.
• 2003 - NPR broadcasts the first episode of Day to Day, a one-hour radio newsmagazine
• 2005 - Larry Brown is introduced as the head coach of the New York Knicks NBA franchise, at a press conference in Madison Square Garden.

• 1659 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
• 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
• 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 singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer (d. 1986)
• 1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher of science (d. 1994)
• 1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
• 1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
• 1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
• 1914 - Carmen Dragon, composer (d. 1984)
• 1915 - Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel Prize 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, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1927 - John Ashbery, American poet
• 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
• 1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, American dancer and choreographer
• 1935 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
• 1936 - Garfield Sobers, West Indian cricketer
• 1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
• 1940 - Philip Proctor, American comedian
• 1941 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
• 1943 - Bill Bradley, basketball player and U.S. Senator
• 1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist
• 1945 - Richard Wright English keyboard player (Pink Floyd)
• 1948 - Sally Struthers, American actress
• 1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
• 1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
• 1952 - Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
• 1954 - Steve Morse, American guitarist
• 1954 - Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela
• 1955 - Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
• 1958 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981)
• 1962 - Rachel Sweet, American singer
• 1965 - Lori Loughlin, American actress
• 1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
• 1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
• 1977 - Tiago Andres Vaz, Brazilian composer
• 1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
• 1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1930 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (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)
• 1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1971 - Myril Hoag, baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
• 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 Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b. 1918)
• 2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1916)
• 2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)

• Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians
• Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve
• Peru - Independence Day
• San Marino - Fall of the Fascist Government

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