What are the important events that happened on July 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 28: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 28 is the 209^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 15, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,227,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneagon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac 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 204 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,602 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 28 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1821 –
  José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
• 1896 –
  The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
• 1943 –
  World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
• 1948 –
  The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the “Battle of London Airport”.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2010 –
  Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.

Who were born on July 28?

• 1896 –
  Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
• 1922 –
  Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
• 1929 –
  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
• 1930 –
  Ramsey Muir Withers, Canadian military figure
• 1933 –
  Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 –
  Philip Proctor, American comedian
• 1949 –
  Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
• 1949 –
  Vida Blue, American baseball player
• 1953 –
  Don Black, founder and current webmaster of Stormfront
• 1954 –
  Hugo Chávez, 52nd President of Venezuela

Who died on July 28?

• 1285 –
  Keran, Queen of Armenia, consort of King Leo III of Armenia (birth year unknown)
• 1750 –
  Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
• 1809 –
  Richard Beckett, English soldier (b.1772)
• 1842 –
  Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
• 1933 –
  Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (b. 1890)
• 1942 –
  William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
• 1965 –
  Edogawa Rampo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
• 1968 –
  Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
• 2004 –
  Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2007 –
  Jim LeRoy, American aerobatic pilot (b. 1961)