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- 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.
- 1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
- 1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
- 1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
- 1609 Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
- 1615 Lake Huron is discovered by French explorer Samuel de Champlain.
- 1655 Cyrano De Bergerac French soldier, author died
- 1786 First potato arrives in Britain.
- 1809 Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera - Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force under Joseph Bonaparte.
- 1821 Peru: Jose de San Martin declares independence from Spain.
- 1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
- 1849 Memmon is first clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY
- 1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
- 1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
- 1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
- 1866 The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.
- 1868 14th Amendment ratified, citizenship to exslaves
- 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.
- 1882 The opera "Parsifal" is produced (Bayreuth)
- 1883 Shocks triggered by the volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
- 1896 City of Miami incorporated
- 1896 The City of Miami is incorporated.
- 1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
- 1913 US wins its first Davis Cup since 1902, beating England, 3-2
- 1914 Foxtrot first danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
- 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.
- 1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings
- 1915 Sailors and Marines land in Haiti to restore order
- 1916 Navy establishes a Code and Signal Section which initially worked against German ciphers and tested the security of communications during U.S. naval training maneuvers.
- 1920 Pancho Villa, bandito and revolutionary, surrenders to the Mexican government.
- 1926 Team of scientists from Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Carnegie Institution determine height of the Ionosphere through use of radio pulse transmitter developed by NRL
- 1928 Olympics open at Amsterdam
- 1930 114ø F (46ø C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
- 1931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
- 1932 Pres Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
- 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.
- 1933 The first singing telegram delivered to Rudy Vallee
- 1934 118ø F (48ø C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)
- 1941 Visitor posting - Judith M Martin born Wooster, Ohio - USA
- 1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Russia
- 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 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
- 1943 Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
- 1945 A US Army B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
- 1945 Thirteen people are killed when a B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building.
- 1945 US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
- 1945 US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2
- 1945 USS Callaghan (DD-792) is last ship sunk by a Japanese kamikaze attack, off Okinawa.
- 1948 I.G. Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
- 1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
- 1951 Visitor posting - Ray Schwingle born in Danville, IL - USA
- 1955 Visitor posting - Charlene (Char) Kay Jones (Cook) was born in Coshocton, OH
- 1955 Visitor posting - July 28, 1955 Neal Eldon Marrison is born.
- 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.
- 1959 Hawaii's first US election sends first Asian-Americans to Congress
- 1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Cliff Richard - Please Don't Tease
- 1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon
- 1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa
- 1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
- 1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
- 1965 Visitor posting - Angela Brightman born at 10am in Spalding, Lincolnshire - United Kingdom
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time
- 1967 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down
- 1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
- 1973 Launch of Skylab 3, the second manned mission to the first U.S. manned space station, was piloted by MAJ Jack R. Lousma, USMC with CAPT Alan L. Bean, USN as the Commander of the mission and former Navy electronics officer, Owen K. Garriott as Science Pilot. The mission lasted 59 days, 11 hours and included 858 Earth orbits. Recovery by USS New Orleans (LPH-11).
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gary Glitter - I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)
- 1973 Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched
- 1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
- 1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
- 1976 Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
- 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.
- 1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
- 1977 The first oil flow through the Alaska pipeline
- 1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY
- 1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for first time
- 1979 Visitor posting - Stewart married Andrea on this day - United Kingdom
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
- 1980 Fernando Bela£nde Terry becomes president of Peru
- 1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
- 1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
- 1987 Angel Cordero Jr becomes the 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
- 1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for first visit in 21 years
- 1988 Visitor posting - July 28, 1988 Glenn Kuehn was born
- 1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
- 1988 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
- 1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
- 1990 Blackout hits Chicago
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power
- 1991 Expo's Dennis Martinez pitches baseball's 15th perfect game (Dodgers)
- 1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins the Tour de France bicycle race
- 1991 Visitor posting - July 28, 1991 The birth of a Legend: Alexis Nielson.
- 1992 Visitor posting - quinton lee was born in tx - USA
- 1994 Pitcher Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers throws a perfect game against the California Angels in a 4-0 win at The Ballpark in Arlington.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Mackenzie Frost is born - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - july 28 1994 Matthew Brougham is born
- 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 Visitor posting - erin murphy waz born on this day!! i love ma fish - United Kingdom
- 2002 Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.
- 2005 A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing 4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
- 2005 Visitor posting - Asa was born
- 2006 Visitor posting - On this date in Philadelphia, Dominic was born. - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Daughter was born - United Kingdom
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