Notable Historical Events on July 28th
July 28th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
388 |
Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis |
754 |
Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France |
1148 |
Crusaders attack Damascus |
1434 |
Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon |
1579 |
Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid |
1586 |
Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England |
1609 |
Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda |
1635 |
Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans |
1696 |
De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance |
1708 |
Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC |
1717 |
Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs |
1741 |
Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska |
1742 |
Prussia & Austria sign peace treaty |
1794 |
French Revolution figure Robespierre & 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris |
1808 |
Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey |
1821 |
Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day) |
1849 |
Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY |
1851 |
Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph |
1858 |
First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service |
1858 |
Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon) |
1862 |
Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo |
1864 |
2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia |
1864 |
Battle of Atlanta: GA (Ezra Church) - second sortie US700 CS4642 |
1866 |
Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US |
1868 |
US Secretary of State William H. Seward announces 14th Amendment ratified by states, grants citizenship to ex-slaves |
1882 |
Richard Wagner's opera "Parsifal" premieres in Beirut |
1883 |
Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 |
1886 |
British Salisbury government forms |
1893 |
A petition demanding women's suffrage is delivered to the New Zealand parliament; it is signed by more 25,000 women, about a 5th of the entire adult European female population |
1896 |
City of Miami incorporated |
1898 |
Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender |
1898 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG) |
1900 |
Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut |
1904 |
Rafael Reyes becomes dictator of Colombia after losing Panama |
1904 |
Interior Minister of Russia, Vyacheslav Plehve is assassinated; as leader of the most reactionary elements of government, he was hated for his repressive policies |
1906 |
Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4 |
1911 |
96°F (35.6°C) in De Bilt Netherlands |
1913 |
12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2) |
1914 |
Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox) |
1914 |
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill orders British Grand Fleet to Scapa Flow |
1914 |
Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first decalation of war of WWI |
1915 |
Because of virtual anarchy, US Marines go ashore in Haiti on orders from President Wilson; this will lead to an occupation that will last until 1934 |
1917 |
Silent Parade 10,000 African-American march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting against lynching |
1919 |
Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam |
1926 |
US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal |
1928 |
9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam |
1929 |
Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich) |
1929 |
24th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2) |
1930 |
114°F (46°C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record) |
1931 |
White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12 |
1931 |
Mob hitman Mad Dog Coll allegedly participates in a kidnapping attempt that results in the shooting death of a child, which earns him the nickname "Mad Dog" |
1932 |
Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die |
1932 |
President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment |
1933 |
1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC |
1933 |
NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions |
1933 |
Spain recognizes the USSR |
1934 |
118°F (48°C), Orofino, Idaho (state record) |
1935 |
Belgium's Romain Maes wins Tour de France |
1937 |
Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex |
1937 |
Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire |
1938 |
34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead |
1938 |
Bradman scores 202 Aust v Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours |
1939 |
5th Dutch government of Colijn falls |
1940 |
Radio Orange, London begins broadcasting |
1940 |
Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9 |
1942 |
Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto |
1942 |
Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland |
1943 |
Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns |
1943 |
Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US |
1943 |
World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. |
1944 |
Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy |
1944 |
US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France |
1945 |
Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender |
1945 |
US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die |
1945 |
US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2 |
1945 |
Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 |
1947 |
Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania |
1948 |
I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die |
1948 |
The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport". |
1951 |
"Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 perfs |
1951 |
Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released |
1952 |
Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell as Cincinnati Reds manager |
1954 |
Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet premieres |
1954 |
"On the Waterfront", starring Marlon Brando, is released |
1955 |
The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France. |
1957 |
Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show) |
1957 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
1957 |
White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game |
1957 |
Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992. |
1958 |
Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship |
1959 |
Great-Britain starts using postal codes |
1959 |
Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress |
1960 |
Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate |
1962 |
19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa |
1962 |
Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean |
1963 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
1964 |
England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw |
1964 |
Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures |
1965 |
LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000) |
1967 |
Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down |
1971 |
16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning |
1971 |
Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie" |
1972 |
39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162) |
1973 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1973 |
Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer win Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
1973 |
Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched |
1974 |
69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil) |
1974 |
Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic |
1976 |
242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake |
1976 |
8.2 & 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die) |
1976 |
Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph |
1976 |
White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's |
1977 |
1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska |
1977 |
Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks |
1977 |
Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham v Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings |
1978 |
600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY |
1978 |
At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees |
1978 |
Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time |
1978 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1979 |
Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game |
1979 |
France performs nuclear Test |
1980 |
Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes president |
1983 |
AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision & allows |
1983 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1983 |
George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game) |
1983 |
NASA launches Telstar-3A |
1984 |
23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles |
1985 |
13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley |
1985 |
Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru |
1985 |
L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame |
1986 |
Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed |
1986 |
NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated |
1987 |
42nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies |
1987 |
Angel Cordero Jr becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races |
1988 |
IBM announces price hike on older models |
1988 |
Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years |
1988 |
Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank |
1988 |
Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa, destroyed by arson |
1989 |
Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning |
1989 |
Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50 |
1989 |
NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz |
1990 |
Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru |
1990 |
Blackout hits Chicago |
1991 |
"Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 105 performances |
1991 |
12th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus |
1991 |
29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1) |
1991 |
Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley |
1991 |
Dennis Martinez pitches the 13th perfect game in baseball history |
1991 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic |
1991 |
Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race |
1992 |
Ground breaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium |
1993 |
Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games |
1994 |
Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994 |
1994 |
Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
1994 |
Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 14th perfect game |
1995 |
Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore |
1995 |
Norwegian Finance Minister Sigbjorn Johnsen says that Norway should not lower its crude oil production in an attempt to boost world oil prices |
1996 |
NY Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR |
1996 |
Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic |
1996 |
Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington. |
1997 |
NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs |
1997 |
Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion |
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, are rescued after 77 hours underground. |
2005 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army 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. |
2008 |
The historic Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier burns down for a second time in 80 years. |
2012 |
Ye Shiwen of China sets world record in the women's 400m individual medley in 4:28.43 |
2012 |
18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia |
2013 |
39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy |
2061 |
31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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