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July 28

A look at July 28 through the almanac — historic events, famous birthdays including Mathieu Debuchy and Marcel Duchamp, and the day's notable deaths and observances.

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Events

10 notable moments
  1. 2005

    Provisional Irish Republican Army

    The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.

    Paramilitary force active from
  2. 1984

    Olympic Games

    Olympic Games: Games of the XXIII Olympiad: The summer Olympics were opened in Los Angeles.

    International sporting events
  3. 1976

    1976 Tangshan earthquake

    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.

    Mw 7.6 earthquake in
  4. 1945

    North American B-25 Mitchell

    A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.

    American WWII medium bomber
  5. 1942

    World War II

    World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.

    1939–1945 global conflict
  6. 1914

    World War I

    World War I: In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on the Kingdom of Serbia and begins the Great War.

    1914–1918 global conflict
  7. 1911

    Australasian Antarctic Expedition

    The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora departed London.

    Expedition to Antarctica led
  8. 1866

    Vinnie Ream

    At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).

    19th-century American sculptor
  9. 1778

    Cantabria

    Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.

    Autonomous community and province
  10. 1540

    Henry VIII

    Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

    King of England from
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Famous birthday twins

Born on July 28

Mathieu Debuchy

b. 1985

French footballer

Marcel Duchamp

b. 1887

French-American painter and sculptor

Hugo Chávez

b. 1954

Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela

William T. Vollmann

b. 1959

American novelist, short story writer and journalist

John Ashbery

b. 1927

American poet

Michael Carrick

b. 1981

English footballer and coach

Ernst Cassirer

b. 1874

Polish-American philosopher and academic

William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

b. 1516

German nobleman

Deaths

  • 2004Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author
  • 1844Joseph Bonaparte, French diplomat and brother of Napoleon
  • 1794Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, French soldier and politician
  • 1794Maximilien Robespierre, French politician,
  • 1750Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer
  • 1741Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Alphonsa Muttathupadathu (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Botvid
  • —Christian feast day: Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, Henry Purcell (Episcopal Church commemoration)
  • —Christian feast day: Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Schütz, George Frederick Handel (Lutheran commemoration)
  • —Christian feast day: Nazarius and Celsus
  • —Christian feast day: Pedro Poveda Castroverde
  • —Christian feast day: Pope Innocent I
  • —Christian feast day: Pope Victor I

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