July 28

July 28 is the 209th day (210th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 156 days remaining.

Events

• 1814 - Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope
• 1864 - Battle of Ezra Church[?] begins
• 1868 - 14th Amendment[?] to US Constitution adopted
• 1943 - Hamburg, Germany bombings result in a firestorm
• 1945 - A US bomber accidentally crashes into the Empire State Building
• 1973 - Watkins Glen concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Grateful Dead
• 1976 - Earthquake flattens Tangshan, China[?], killing 242,769 people, and 164,851 people are heavily injured
• 1995 - Network Solutions[?] announces a new policy to help companies protect their trademarks on the Internet

Births

• 1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, composer
• 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (+ 1872)
• 1866 - Beatrix Potter, author (+ 1943)
• 1887 - Marcel Duchamp, painter (+ 1968)
• 1902 - Karl Popper, philosopher of science
• 1907 - Dolf Sternberger[?], publicist (+ 1989)
• 1914 - Carmen Dragon[?], composer
• 1915 - Frankie Yancovic[?], musician (+ 1998)
• 1922 - Jacques Piccard[?], undersea explorer
• 1927 - John Ashbery, poet
• 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, editor and wife of John F. Kennedy (+ 1994)
• 1934 - Jacques d'Amboise[?], dancer, choreographer
• 1937 - Peter Duchin[?], pianist, bandleader
• 1940 - Phil Proctor[?], comedian
• 1943 - Bill Bradley[?], basketball player, former United States Senator
• 1945 - Jim Davis, cartoonist
• 1958 - Terry Fox, cancer activist, (+ 1981)
• 1962 - Rachel Sweet[?], singer

Deaths

• 1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, composer
• 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader
• 1817 - Jane Austen, author, at Winchester, England
• 1934 - Marie Dressler, Academy Award-winning actress
• 1969 - Frank Loesser, composer

Holidays and observances

• Faroe Islands - Õlavsøka Eve[?]
• Peru - Independence Day
• San Marino - Fall of the Fascist Government

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