This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
07/28/1165 Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic/philosopher 
07/28/1456 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (Arcadia) 
07/28/1514 Maximilian van Bourgondi‰, viceroy of Holland 
07/28/1609 Judith J Leyster, Dutch house painter, baptised 
07/28/1719 John Nepveu, governor-general of Suriname (1769-79) 
07/28/1745 Piotr A von der Pahlen, milt governor (St Petersburg) 
07/28/1746 Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Decl of Ind 
07/28/1750 Philippe Fabre d'glantine, France, poet/satirist/politician 
07/28/1778 Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1869 
07/28/1804 Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philospher (Der Mensch ist) 
07/28/1808 Charles Lucas, composer 
07/28/1809 Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Major General (Union volunteers) 
07/28/1813 Alberto Mazzucato, composer 
07/28/1825 William Duncan Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862 
07/28/1833 James Henry Lane, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907 
07/28/1835 Jose Garcia Robles, composer 
07/28/1837 Christian Barnekow, composer 
07/28/1844 Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover) 
07/28/1859 Balington Booth, founder (Volunteers of America) 
07/28/1866 Beatrix Potter, England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit) 
07/28/1868 George Morren, Flemish painter/sculptor 
07/28/1868 Thomas P Krag, Norse author/novelist/writer (Jon Graeff/Ulf Ran) 
07/28/1870 Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1927-31) 
07/28/1872 Albert P Sarraut, Fren gov-gen of Indo-China (1911..19)/PM (1933/36)

07/28/1874 Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator (Essay on Man) 
07/28/1887 Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Nude Descending a Staircase) 
07/28/1892 Joe E Brown, Holgate Ohio, comedian (Buck Circus Hour) 
07/28/1892 Petro Petridis, Greek composer (Isotope Suite) 
07/28/1893 Rued Immanuel Langgard, composer 
07/28/1897 Emmy Arbous, actress/cabaretiŠre 
07/28/1900 Maurice Johnstone, composer 
07/28/1901 Rudy Vallee, Vt, singer (Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time) 
07/28/1901 Sandor Vandor, composer 
07/28/1902 Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Dead Reckoning) 
07/28/1904 [John] Selwyn [Brooke] Lloyd, British statsman 
07/28/1907 Earl S Tupper, invented Tupperware 
07/28/1907 Vivian Vance, Cherryvale Ks, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy) 
07/28/1908 Zbigniew Turski, composer 
07/28/1909 Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (Under the Volcano) 
07/28/1910 Bill Goodwin, SF Calif, announcer (Burns & Allen, Boing Boing Show) 
07/28/1911 Ann Doran, Amarillo Tx, actress (Longstreet, Shirley) 
07/28/1911 Gerhard Stoeck, Germany, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1936) 
07/28/1912 Eleazar de Carvalho, Iguat£ Brazil, conductor/tuba (Tiradentes) 
07/28/1916 David Brown, NYC, director (Jaws, Planet of the Apes) 
07/28/1916 Laird Cregar, Phila, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square) 
07/28/1922 Jacques Piccard, Switzerland, undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste)

07/28/1923 Knows L Lee, US vice-admiral (WW II-Marianas/Palau) 
07/28/1925 Larry Pruden, composer 
07/28/1928 Adrian Ratiu, composer 
07/28/1929 Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1st lady (1961-63) 
07/28/1929 Remco [Wouter] Campert, literary/poet/son of Jan Campert 
07/28/1930 Darryl Hickman, Hollywood Cal, actor (Human Comedy, Tea & Sympathy) 
07/28/1934 Jacques D'Amboise, dancer/educator (NYC Ballet Company) 
07/28/1934 Norman D Shumway, (Rep-R-California, 1979-  ) 
07/28/1937 Peter Duchin, NYC, pianist/bandleader (Peter Duchin Orch) 
07/28/1938 Alberto Fujimoro, president of Peru (1990-  ) 
07/28/1938 George Cummings, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show) 
07/28/1938 Robert Hughes, [Studley Forrest], Australia, writer/critic (Barcelon

07/28/1940 Phil Proctor, comedian (Firesign Theater) 
07/28/1941 Riccardo Muti, Napoli Italy, conductor (Philadelphia Orch) 
07/28/1943 Lawrence Elkins, football player FL (Houston Oilers) 
07/28/1943 Mike Bloomfield, blues guitarist/singer (Analine) 
07/28/1944 Daniel Morelon, France, 1K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72) 
07/28/1945 Jim Davis, cartoonist (Garfield) 
07/28/1945 Richard William Wright, rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall

07/28/1946 Douglas H Bosco, (Rep-D-CA, 1983-  ) 
07/28/1946 Linda Kelsey, Minneapolis, actress (Billie-Lou Grant, Kate-Day by Da

07/28/1947 Aleksei Sergeyevich Boroday, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut 
07/28/1947 Barbara Ann Ferrell Edmondson, Miss, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-196

07/28/1947 Elena Novikova-Belova, USSR, foils (Olympic-gold-1968) 
07/28/1947 Miguelina Cobian, Santiago Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)

07/28/1947 Sally Struther, Portland Oregon, actress (Gloria-All in the Family) 
07/28/1948 Georgia Engel, Wash DC, actress (Georgette-Mary Tyler Moore Show) 
07/28/1949 Marilyn Quayle, wife of vice president Dan Quayle (1989-93) 
07/28/1949 Steve Took, rocker (T-Rex) 
07/28/1949 Vida Blue, major-league pitcher (Cy Young & AL MVP 1971) 
07/28/1951 Greg Gluffria, rocker (House of Lords-Sahara) 
07/28/1952 Monique of the Ven, actress (Turkish Fruit) 
07/28/1952 Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince/Heir Apparent to throne of Thailand 
07/28/1953 Steve Duncan, Knoxville Tn, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited) 
07/28/1954 Ken Margolis, rocker (Mink DeVille) 
07/28/1956 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves) 
07/28/1958 Terry Fox, ran 'Marathon of Hope' across Canada 
07/28/1961 Scott E Parazynski, Little Rock Ark, MD/astronaut (sk: STS 66) 
07/28/1963 Patrizia Pellegrino, Naples Italy, (Italy's Miss Teenager 1980) 
07/28/1967 Lori Loughlin, Queens, actress (Edge of Night, New Kids, Full House)

07/28/1969 Garth Snow, Wrentham Mass, US hockey goaltender (Olympics-1994) 
07/28/1969 Jarrod Hanks, Lafayette LA, US gymnist (Olympic-92) 
07/28/1972 Elizabeth Berkley, actress (Jessie-Saved by the Bell) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/28/ 450 Theodosius II de Jongere, emperor Austrian Empire, dies 
07/28/1057 Victor II, [Gebhard], Pope (1055-57), dies 
07/28/1330 Michael III, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies in battle 
07/28/1540 Richard Cromwell, England 'Lord Protector', dies 
07/28/1540 Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, executed 
07/28/1557 Anna van Kleef, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41 
07/28/1641 John Amner, composer, dies at 61 
07/28/1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris 
07/28/1655 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76 
07/28/1667 Abraham Cowley, English poet (Mistress/Sex libri plantarum), dies 
07/28/1711 Gerard Lairesse, painter, buried 
07/28/1723 Mariana Alcoforado, nun (schreef no Lettres Portuguese), dies at 63 
07/28/1741 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, composer, dies at 63 
07/28/1746 John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st admendment fight, die

07/28/1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 6

07/28/1778 Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68 
07/28/1794 Maximilien Robespierre, Fr revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined 
07/28/1794 Robespierre, & 22 other terrorists executed to thunderous cheers 
07/28/1802 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 

07/28/1811 Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies 
07/28/1837 John Ross, composer, dies at 73 
07/28/1838 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62 
07/28/1849 Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies 
07/28/1850 Stefano Pavesi, composer, dies at 71 
07/28/1863 James Deshler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 30 
07/28/1864 Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67 
07/28/1864 Samuel Benton, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at about 

07/28/1869 Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies 
07/28/1872 Friedrich Kaiser, astronomer (Kaiser-Compass), dies 
07/28/1895 Joannes Kappeyne van Coppello, Internal minister (1877-89), dies at 

07/28/1904 Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies 
07/28/1915 Vilbrun G Sam, rebellion leader/president of Haiti, lynched 
07/28/1937 Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer, dies at 51 
07/28/1937 Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies 
07/28/1939 William J Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder Mayo Clinic, dies at 78 
07/28/1940 Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66 
07/28/1965 Maurice Yvain, composer, dies at 74 
07/28/1968 Charles W Mayo, US surgeon, dies at 70 
07/28/1968 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89 
07/28/1969 Ernst Tittel, composer, dies at 59 
07/28/1969 Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 59 
07/28/1969 Gabriel von Wayditch, composer, dies at 80 
07/28/1970 John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orch), dies at 7

07/28/1971 Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48 
07/28/1972 Heal Traubel, US singer (Sieglinde in Walkre, Nightclubs), dies 
07/28/1974 Truman Bradley, host (Science Fiction Theater), dies at 69 
07/28/1976 Jacob Soetendorp, rabbi, dies at 62 
07/28/1978 Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer, dies at 70 
07/28/1980 Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95 
07/28/1982 George Kleinsinger, composer, dies at 68 
07/28/1984 Bess Flowers, actress (View from Pompey's Head), dies at 85 
07/28/1985 Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54

07/28/1986 Charles Aubroeck, Belgian painter/sculptor (Yzertoren), dies at 91 
07/28/1987 James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81 
07/28/1990 Armando Frid, of Argentina (Born May 24, 1866 Guin rec), dies at 124

07/28/1991 Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands, dies 
07/28/1993 Herbert Joeks, [van Hugten], actor (Pipo the Clown), dies at 77 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/28/ 754 Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France 
07/28/1148 Crusaders attack Damascus 
07/28/1402 Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I 
07/28/1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe 
07/28/1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I 
07/28/1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda 
07/28/1635 Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans 
07/28/1741 Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska 
07/28/1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day) 
07/28/1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe 
07/28/1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY 
07/28/1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph 
07/28/1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon) 
07/28/1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo 
07/28/1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia 
07/28/1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Ezra Church 
07/28/1864 Battle of Atlanta, GA (Ezra Church) -second sortie US700 CS4642 
07/28/1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US 
07/28/1868 14th Amendment ratified, citizenship to ex-slaves 
07/28/1882 Opera 'Parsifal' is produced (Bayreuth) 
07/28/1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) 
07/28/1883 destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000 
07/28/1896 City of Miami incorporated 
07/28/1898 Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender 
07/28/1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Adventure of Retired Colourman'(BG) 
07/28/1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut 
07/28/1906 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4 
07/28/1911 96øF (35.6øC) in De Bilt Netherlands 
07/28/1913 US wins its 1st Davis Cup since 1902, beating England, 3-2 
07/28/1914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia-WW I begins 
07/28/1914 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox) 
07/28/1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow 
07/28/1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings 
07/28/1915 US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924 
07/28/1917 Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots 
07/28/1919 Vr˜e Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam 
07/28/1926 US & Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal 
07/28/1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam 
07/28/1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich) 
07/28/1930 114ø F (46ø C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record) 
07/28/1931 Congress makes 'Star-Spangled Banner' our 2nd national anthem 
07/28/1931 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12 
07/28/1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die 
07/28/1932 Pres Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment 
07/28/1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC 
07/28/1933 NFL divides into 2, 5 team divisions 
07/28/1933 Spain admits the USSR 
07/28/1934 118ø F (48ø C), Orofino, Idaho (state record) 
07/28/1935 Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France 
07/28/1935 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1386 Storeria 
07/28/1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1485 Isa 
07/28/1939 5th Dutch cabinet of Col˜n falls 
07/28/1940 Radio Orange, London begins 
07/28/1940 Yankee Charle Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9 
07/28/1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto 
07/28/1942 Zionists partisans ZOB established in Poland 
07/28/1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns 
07/28/1943 Pres FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US 
07/28/1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy 
07/28/1944 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France 
07/28/1945 US Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die 
07/28/1945 US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2 
07/28/1947 Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania 
07/28/1948 I.G. Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 di

07/28/1951 Walt Disney's 'Alice In Wonderland' released 
07/28/1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game 
07/28/1958 Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship 
07/28/1959 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress 
07/28/1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate 
07/28/1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton Pa 
07/28/1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean 
07/28/1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures 
07/28/1965 LBJ sends 50,000 soldiers to Vietnam 
07/28/1967 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down 
07/28/1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning 
07/28/1971 Dutch ends censorship of 'Blue Movie' 
07/28/1973 Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched 
07/28/1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil) 
07/28/1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake 
07/28/1976 8.2 & 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die) 
07/28/1976 Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph 
07/28/1976 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's 
07/28/1977 1st oil flow through Alaska pipeline 
07/28/1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks 
07/28/1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in NY 
07/28/1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees 
07/28/1978 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3188 & #3422 
07/28/1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time 
07/28/1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game 
07/28/1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Bela£nde Terry becomes president 
07/28/1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles 
07/28/1985 Alan Garc¡a sworn in as president of Peru 
07/28/1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 25 killed 
07/28/1987 Angel Cordero Jr becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races 
07/28/1988 IBM announces price hike on older models 
07/28/1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years 
07/28/1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank 
07/28/1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson 
07/28/1988 Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3 
07/28/1989 superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz 
07/28/1990 Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru 
07/28/1990 Blackout hits Chicago 
07/28/1991 Buffalo Bills beat Phila Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley 
07/28/1991 Expo's Dennis Martinez pitches baseball's 15th perfect game (Dodgers

07/28/1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race 
07/28/1992 Ground breaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium 
07/28/1993 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games 
07/28/2061 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 
  
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