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 209th 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, 1,753,660,800 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 ‘dihectaenneagon’ day.
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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.
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July 28 Historical Events
- 1364 –Troops of the Republic of Pisa and of the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
- 1914 –World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
- 1935 –First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
- 1948 –The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the “Battle of London Airport”.
- 1955 –The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
- 1993 –Andorra joins the United Nations.
- 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.
- 2008 –The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
Who were born on July 28?
- 1931 –Johnny Martin, Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
- 1933 –Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1938 –Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
- 1941 –Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
- 1952 –Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
- 1954 –Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
- 1961 –Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
- 1969 –Garth Snow, American ice hockey player
- 1979 –Alena Popchanka, French swimmer
- 1979 –Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
Who died on July 28?
- 1527 –Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador (b. 1460)
- 1836 –Nathan Mayer Rothschild, British financier (b. 1777)
- 1930 –Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
- 1971 –Charles E. Pont, American painter and printmaker (b. 1898)
- 1979 –Don Miller, American college football player (b. 1902)
- 1981 –Fr. Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic Priest and missionary (b. 1935)
- 1990 –Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
- 1996 –Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
- 1997 –Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
- 2004 –Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
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