About July 28
July 28, 2024 is the 210th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 185 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 28
- 1540 –Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church – Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1868 –The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is certified, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
- 1896 –The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- 1932 –U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
- 1935 –First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
- 1943 –World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
- 1945 –A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
- 1955 –The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: U.S. 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: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
- 1976 –The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People’s Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
- 1993 –Andorra joins the United Nations.
- 1996 –The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
- 2001 –Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
- 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 calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
- 2005 –Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
- 2008 –The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
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