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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.
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 - 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 .2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.2003 - NPR broadcasts the first episode of Day to Day , a one-hour radio newsmagazine2005 - Larry Brown is introduced as the head coach of the New York Knicks NBA franchise, at a press conference in Madison Square Garden .
Births
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 )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 laureate1915 - Frankie Yankovic , American musician (d. 1998 )1916 - David Brown , American film producer1922 - Jacques Piccard , Belgian-born undersea explorer1927 - John Ashbery , American poet1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , First Lady of the United States (d. 1994 )1934 - Jacques d'Amboise , American dancer and choreographer1935 - Simon Dee , British television broadcaster1936 - Garfield Sobers , West Indian cricketer1940 - Philip Proctor , American comedian1941 - Riccardo Muti , Italian conductor1943 - Bill Bradley , basketball player and U.S. Senator1945 - Jim Davis , American cartoonist1945 - Richard Wright English keyboard player (Pink Floyd )1948 - Sally Struthers , American actress1949 - Steve Peregrin Took , English singer and songwriter (d. 1980 )1951 - Santiago Calatrava , Spanish architect1952 - Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand 1952 - Yoshitaka Amano , Japanese artist1954 - Steve Morse , American guitarist1958 - Terry Fox , Canadian athlete and cancer activist (d. 1981 )1962 - Rachel Sweet , American singer1965 - Lori Loughlin , American actress1972 - Elizabeth Berkley , American actress1976 - Jacoby Shaddix , American singer (Papa Roach )1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili , Argentine basketball player1979 - Birgitta Haukdal , Icelandic 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 )1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas , Spanish conquistador1540 - Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex , English statesman1631 - 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 )1934 - Marie Dressler , Canadian actress (b. 1868 )1942 - William Matthew Flinders Petrie , English Egyptologist (b. 1853 )1957 - h Abbott , American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876 )1965 - Edogawa Ranpo , Japanese author of detective novels (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 )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 - Tiziano Terzani , Italian journalist (b. 1938 )2004 - Francis Crick , English chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (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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