Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 28
This is a list of selected July 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Before doing so, please review the selected anniversaries guidelines. If your suggestion is potentially controversial or relates to a day currently or soon to appear on the Main Page, post it on the talk page instead.
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Hepatitis Day | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Peru (1821) | refimprove section |
| 1540 – King Henry VIII of England had his chief minister Thomas Cromwell executed for treason and heresy. | refimprove section |
| 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Joseph Bonaparte suffered 7,270 casualties while Sir Arthur Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish army had 6,700 at an inconclusive battle in Talavera, Spain. | needs more footnotes |
| 1896 – Miami, today the principal city and the center of the South Florida metropolitan area, the seventh largest metro area in the United States, was incorporated with a population of just over 300. | Miami: refimprove/unreferenced sections; History of Miami: refimprove |
| 1914 – Austria-Hungary declared war after rejecting Serbia's conditional acceptance of only part of the July Ultimatum following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, starting World War I. | globalize section |
| 1915 – U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince to begin a 20-year occupation of Haiti. | HTML markup, lots of CN tags (7) |
| 1932 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover ordered the eviction of the "Bonus Army"—a group of veterans who were occupying government property to demand immediate payment for money owed. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1973 – About 600,000 people attended what was the largest musical concert in history at the Watkins Glen International Raceway near Watkins Glen, New York. | refimprove |
| 1990 – Alberto Fujimori took office as President of Peru, becoming the first person of Japanese descent to be the head of government of a Latin American nation. | accuracy disputed |
| 1996 – The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, U.S. | lead too long |
| 2010 – In the deadliest air accident in Pakistan's history, Airblue Flight 202 crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, killing all 152 aboard. | page numbers needed |
| Beatrix Potter (b. 1866) | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, architects of the Reign of Terror, were executed after having been arrested the previous day.
- 1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
- 1917 – In New York City, the NAACP and church and community leaders organized a silent march of at least 8,000 people to protest violence directed towards African Americans.
- 1935 – The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber, which dropped more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II, made its first flight.
- 1976 – An earthquake measuring at least 8.2 on the Richter scale, one of the deadliest in history, flattened Tangshan, China, killing at least 240,000 people.
- 2001 – At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
- Born/died: Lucy Burns (b. 1879) | Baruch Samuel Blumberg (b. 1925) | Richard Johns (b. 1939) | Bill Bradley (b. 1943) | Richard Wright (b. 1943) | Ray Kennedy (b. 1951) | Clara Ng (b. 1973) | Manu Ginóbili (b. 1977) | Michael Carrick (b. 1981) | Zach Parise (b. 1984) | Ahmed Sofa (d. 2001)
Notes
- Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign 1969–97 featured on July 19 so IRA should not appear in the same year.
- July Crisis featured on July 23 so WWI should not appear in the same year.
- Thermidorian Reaction featured on July 27 so Robespierre/Saint-Just should not appear in the same year
- Quietly Confident Quartet appears on July 24 and Neil Brooks appears on July 27, so Ian Thorpe should not appear in the same year
Sutton Hoo helmet
- 1821 – Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from the Spanish Empire.
- 1939 – During the excavation of a 7th-century ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archaeologists discovered a helmet (pictured) that probably belonged to King Rædwald of East Anglia.
- 1945 – A B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 14 people and causing an estimated $1 million in damage.
- 1995 – Two followers of Rajneesh were convicted of conspiring to assassinate Charles Turner, the U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon.
- 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced the formal end of its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland and create a united Ireland.
- Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (b. 1645)
- George Law Curry (d. 1878)
- Dulquer Salmaan (b. 1986)