July, 28th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Thursday 28, 2005:
Larry Brown is introduced as the head coach of the New York Knicks NBA franchise, at a press conference in Madison Square Garden.

Monday 28, 2003:
NPR broadcasts the first episode of Day to Day, a one-hour radio newsmagazine

Sunday 28, 2002:
2002 - nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pennsylvania, were rescued after 77 hours underground.

Tuesday 28, 1998:
Monica Lewinsky scandal: Ex-White House intern, Monica Lewinsky receives transactional immunity in exchange for her grand jury testimony concerning her relationship with US President Bill Clinton.

Monday 28, 1997:
Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

Sunday 28, 1996:
Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.

Friday 28, 1995:
Network Solutions announces a new policy to help companies protect their trademarks on the Internet.

Tuesday 28, 1992:
Mary J. Blige releases her album What's the 411?. It is considered the album that started the new subgenre, hip-hop soul (also see 1992 in music).

Saturday 28, 1990:
Alberto Fujimori becomes president of Peru

Wednesday 28, 1976:
The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.

Saturday 28, 1973:
Watkins Glen, New York concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Grateful Dead.

Wednesday 28, 1965:
Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.

Saturday 28, 1945:
A US Army bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.

Wednesday 28, 1943:
The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.

Tuesday 28, 1942:
World War II: USSR leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately killed.

Thursday 28, 1932:
US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC.

Tuesday 28, 1914:
World War I begins: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war.

Sunday 28, 1878:
Great Britain's William Gowland becomes the first non-Japanese to reach Yarigatake peak (3,180 meters), and he names the mountain the Japanese Alps, a name that is eventually used to refer to the entire mountain range.

Monday 28, 1873:
The Japanese government implements land and tax reform as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.

Tuesday 28, 1868:
The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is adopted guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.

Saturday 28, 1866:
The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.

Thursday 28, 1864:
Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.

Saturday 28, 1821:
Peru declares independence from Spain.

Monday 28, 1794:
Maximilien Robespierre is guillotined in front of a cheering crowd, for sending thousands of others to a similar fate during the French Revolution.

Sunday 28, 1540:
Thomas Cromwell, is executed on order from Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.

Friday 28, 1493:
Great fire in Moscow

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/28-july/on-this-day.html


People born on July 28

1979:
Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer (b: July 28, 1979) (Biography of Birgitta Haukdal)

1977:
Emanuel Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player (b: July 28, 1977) (Biography of Emanuel Ginóbili)

1976:
Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach) (b: July 28, 1976) (Biography of Jacoby Shaddix)

1972:
Elizabeth Berkley, American actress (b: July 28, 1972) (Biography of Elizabeth Berkley)

1965:
Lori Loughlin, American actress (b: July 28, 1965) (Biography of Lori Loughlin)

1962:
Rachel Sweet, American singer (b: July 28, 1962) (Biography of Rachel Sweet)

1958:
Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b: July 28, 1958 ; d: June 28, 1981) (Biography of Terry Fox)

1954:
Steve Morse, American guitarist (b: July 28, 1954) (Biography of Steve Morse)

1952:
Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand (b: July 28, 1952) (Biography of Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand)
Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist (b: July 28, 1952) (Biography of Yoshitaka Amano)

1951:
Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect (b: July 28, 1951) (Biography of Santiago Calatrava)

1949:
Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b: July 28, 1949 ; d: October 27, 1980) (Biography of Steve Peregrin Took)

1948:
Sally Struthers, American actress (b: July 28, 1948) (Biography of Sally Struthers)

1945:
Jim Davis, American cartoonist (b: July 28, 1945) (Biography of Jim Davis (cartoonist))
Richard Wright English keyboard player (Pink Floyd) (b: July 28, 1945) (Biography of Richard Wright)

1943:
Bill Bradley, basketball player and U.S. Senator (b: July 28, 1943) (Biography of Bill Bradley)

1941:
Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor (b: July 28, 1941) (Biography of Riccardo Muti)

1940:
Philip Proctor, American comedian (b: July 28, 1940) (Biography of Philip Proctor)

1936:
Garfield Sobers, West Indian cricketer (b: July 28, 1936) (Biography of Garfield Sobers)

1935:
Simon Dee, British television broadcaster (b: July 28, 1935) (Biography of Simon Dee)

1934:
Jacques d'Amboise, American dancer and choreographer (b: July 28, 1934) (Biography of Jacques d'Amboise)

1929:
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (b: July 28, 1929) (Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)

1927:
John Ashbery, American poet (b: July 28, 1927) (Biography of John Ashbery)

1922:
Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer (b: July 28, 1922) (Biography of Jacques Piccard)

1916:
David Brown, American film producer (b: July 28, 1916) (Biography of David Brown (producer))

1915:
Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: July 28, 1915) (Biography of Charles Townes)
Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b: July 28, 1915 ; d: October 14, 1998) (Biography of Frankie Yankovic)

1914:
Carmen Dragon, composer (b: July 28, 1914) (Biography of Carmen Dragon)

1909:
Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (b: July 28, 1909 ; d: June 27, 1957) (Biography of Malcolm Lowry)

1907:
Earl Tupper, American inventor (b: July 28, 1907 ; d: October 5, 1983) (Biography of Earl Tupper)

1904:
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: July 28, 1904 ; d: January 6, 1990) (Biography of Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov)

1902:
Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher of science (b: July 28, 1902) (Biography of Karl Popper)

1901:
Rudy Vallee, American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer (b: July 28, 1901 ; d: July 3, 1986) (Biography of Rudy Vallee)

1896:
Barbara La Marr, American actress (b: July 28, 1896 ; d: January 30, 1926) (Biography of Barbara La Marr)

1887:
Marcel Duchamp, French painter (b: July 28, 1887 ; d: October 2, 1968) (Biography of Marcel Duchamp)

1874:
Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b: July 28, 1874 ; d: April 13, 1945) (Biography of Ernst Cassirer)

1867:
Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (b: July 28, 1867 ; d: June 21, 1951) (Biography of Charles Dillon Perrine)

1866:
Beatrix Potter, English author (b: July 28, 1866 ; d: December 22, 1943) (Biography of Beatrix Potter)

1844:
Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (b: July 28, 1844) (Biography of Gerard Manley Hopkins)

1804:
Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (b: July 28, 1804) (Biography of Ludwig Feuerbach)

1659:
Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (b: July 28, 1659 ; d: July 5, 1715) (Biography of Charles Ancillon)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/28-july/births.html