July 28
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Events
- 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.
- 1609 - Bermuda is first settled, by survivors of the English Sea Venture, en route to Virginia.
- 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.
- 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.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church - The battle begins on this day when 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.
- 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.
- 1896 - The City of Miami is incorporated.
- 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 B-25 bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 - Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.
- 2005 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (The PIRA) 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.
Births
- 1659 - Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
- 1746 - Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
- 1750 - Fabre d'Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794)
- 1796 - Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
- 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
- 1815 - Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
- 1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
- 1857 - Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
- 1860 - Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
- 1863 - Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
- 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)
- 1898 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1901 - Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
- 1901 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1902 - Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
- 1904 - Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1990)
- 1907 - Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
- 1909 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
- 1914 - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
- 1914 - Woody Strode, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1915 - Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel 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, Nobel laureate
- 1927 - John Ashbery, American poet
- 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
- 1930 - Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
- 1930 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
- 1933 - Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- 1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer
- 1935 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
- 1936 - Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
- 1936 - Garfield Sobers, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
- 1937 - Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
- 1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
- 1938 - Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand
- 1940 - Philip Proctor, American comedian
- 1941 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
- 1942 - Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
- 1943 - Mike Bloomfield, American musician (d. 1981)
- 1943 - Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
- 1943 - Richard Wright English musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist
- 1946 - Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
- 1946 - Linda Kelsey, American actress
- 1948 - Georgia Engel, American actress
- 1948 - Sally Struthers, American actress
- 1949 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
- 1949 - Vida Blue, American baseball player
- 1949 - Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
- 1950 - Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
- 1951 - Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
- 1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
- 1952 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
- 1952 - Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
- 1954 - Steve Morse, American guitarist
- 1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
- 1954 - Bruce Abbott, American actor
- 1954 - Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
- 1955 - Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
- 1958 - Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981)
- 1958 - Michael Hitchcock, American actor
- 1961 - Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
- 1962 - Rachel Sweet, American singer
- 1964 - Lori Loughlin, American actress
- 1965 - Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
- 1965 - Delfeayo Marsalis, jazz musician
- 1966 - Armando J. Tirado, American lawyer
- 1967 - Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder)
- 1969 - Garth Snow, American ice hockey player
- 1969 - Alexis Arquette, American actor
- 1970 - Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
- 1970 - Isabelle Brasseur, French Canadian figure skater
- 1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician
- 1971 - Annie Perreault, French Canadian short track speed skater
- 1972 - Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
- 1972 - Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
- 1972 - Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
- 1973 - Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Marc Dupré, Quebec humorist and singer
- 1974 - Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
- 1975 - Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
- 1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
- 1977 - Tiago Andres Vaz, Brazilian composer
- 1977 - Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
- 1977 - Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1979 - Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
- 1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
- 1981 - Michael Carrick, English footballer
- 1981 - Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
- 1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
- 1982 - Tom Pelphrey, American actor
- 1984 - DeMeco Ryans, American football player
- 1984 - Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
- 1985 - Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
- 1985 - Tynisha Keli, American singer
- 1986 - Alexandra Chando, American actress
- 1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer
- 1990 - DeAndre Cortez Way (Soulja Boy), American rapper
- 1993 - Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
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)
- 1285 - Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
- 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)
- 1818 - Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
- 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)
- 1878 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
- 1930 - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (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)
- 1967 - Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
- 1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
- 1969 - Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
- 1971 - Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
- 1972 - Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
- 1972 - Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
- 1982 - Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1953)
- 1990 - Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
- 1996 - Marguerite "Marge" Ganser, American singer (Shangri-Las) (b. 1948)
- 1996 - Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
- 1997 - Seni Pramoj, Thai politician, Thai Prime Minister (b. 1905)
- 1998 - Lenny McLean, "The Guv'nor", London bareknuckle fighter,"the hardest man in Britain". (b. 1949)
- 1999 - Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
- 2000 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and science historian (b. 1918)
- 2002 - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
- 2003 - Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish Senator and campaigner for the disabled (b. 1918)
- 2004 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
- 2004 - Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
- 2004 - Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2004 - Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
- 2006 - David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
- 2007 - Jim LeRoy, Stunt Plane pilot
- 2007 - Karl Gotch, Professional wrestler, Olympian (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances
- Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians
- Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve
- Peru - Independence Day
- San Marino - Fall of the Fascist Government
Liturgical feasts
Roman Catholicism- Saint Celsus & Saint Nazarius
- Saint Botwid, martyr [Scandinavia]
- Saint Camelianus (Himerius), bishop of Troyes [Troyes]
- Saint Innocent I, pope
- Saint Michael Abba Ghebra, martyr
- Saints Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs [common; Switzerland, France, Orden; in red]
- Saint Pantaleon, martyr [common]
- Saint Peregrinus, priest, confessor [Lyon]
- Saint Samson, bishop of Dol, confessor [common; northern France, England, Scotland; England]
- Seven Sleepers, martyrs [Gnesen]
- Saint Ursus, abbot, confessor [Tours]
- St. Victor and Innocent, popes, martyrs [Orden; (without Innocent)]
- Saint Ada
- Translation of Saint Columba, virgin at Sens, martyr [Sens]
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July 1 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining. The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year.
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July 2 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after.
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It is the middle day of a non-leap year, because there are 182 days before and 182 days after.
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July 3 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Events
- 324 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
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- For the United States holiday, the Fourth of July, see Independence Day (United States).
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July 5 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Only public domain resources can be copied without permission—this does not include most web pages or images July 6 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced "Seven-seven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system.
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July 8 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 9 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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July 10 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 11 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 12 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 1191 - Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre.
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July 13 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 14 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 15 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 16 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Events
- 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
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July 17 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Events
- 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed for being Christians.
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July 18 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- Saint Rufina, virgin, martyr [Metz, France]
- Saint Dios, the Venerable
References
1. ^ *Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saint. St. Louis, MO: B.
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July 20 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Events
- 514 - Pope Hormisdas assumes the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church.
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July 21 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 22 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 23 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Events
- 1632 - 300 colonists bound for New France depart Dieppe, France.
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July 24 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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Events
- 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
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July 25 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 306 - Constantine I proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
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July 26 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 657 - Battle of Siffin.
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July 27 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England.
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July 29 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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July 30 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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- 1419 - First Defenestration of Prague.
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July 31 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
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