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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 15, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,722,124,800 seconds 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 ‘dihectadecagon’ 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 185 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 4,237 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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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.
- 1794 –Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
- 1821 –José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
- 1896 –The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
- 1942 –World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be immediately executed.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 –The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
Who were born on July 28?
- 1860 –Elias M. Ammons, American politician (d. 1925)
- 1867 –Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born Argentine astronomer (d. 1951)
- 1915 –Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1926 –Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
- 1943 –Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
- 1948 –Gerald Casale, American vocalist, bassist (Devo) and director
- 1965 –Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz trombonist and record producer
- 1969 –Alexis Arquette, American actor
- 1971 –Annie Perreault, Canadian short-track speed skater
- 1982 –Tom Pelphrey, American actor
Who died on July 28?
- 1762 –George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
- 1957 –Edith Abbott, American social worker (b. 1876)
- 1968 –Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
- 1979 –Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
- 1981 –Fr. Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic Priest and missionary (b. 1935)
- 1999 –Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
- 2001 –Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi writer (b. 1943)
- 2003 –Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
- 2004 –Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
- 2011 –Abdul Fatah Younis, Former Libyan Interior Minister, assassinated for pro-Gadaffi ties (b. 1944)
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