28 Julie

The 28t o Julie is the 209t day o the year (210t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 156 days ti come.

Events

1821: Banner o Peru.

1865: Banner o the Welsh colony in Argentinae

1976: Tangshan yirdquauk damage

• 1566 - A storm sinks mony ships o the Dens-Lubeck fleet aff Gotland, killin an estimatit 6,000 fowk.
• 1794 - Execution o French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre.
• 1821 - Peru declares unthirldom frae Spain.
• 1865 - Welsh settlers arrive in Chubut, Argentinae.
• 1883 - The Italian isle o Ischia is hit bi a yirdquauk, killin 2,300 fowk.
• 1896 - The ceety o Miami, Florida is incorporatit.
• 1914 - Austrick-Hungary declares war on Serbie at the stairt o Warld War I.
• 1928 - The 1928 Simmer Olympics in Amsterdam begin.
• 1943 - Breetish bombin o Hamburg in Warld War II.
• 1945 - A B-25 Bomber crashes intae New York Ceety's Empire State Building.
• 1957 - Heavy rain an mudslides in Kyushu, Japan, kill 992 fowk.
• 1976 - Major yirdquauk in Cheenae, killin 142,769 fowk.
• 1981 - A yirdquauk in Iran kills 1,500 fowk.
• 1984 - Stairt o the 1984 Simmer Olympics in Los Angeles, Californie.
• 1987 - A rock faw buries the veelage o Marignone, northren Italy, killin 53 fowk.
• 1990 - Alberto Fujimori becomes Preses o Peru.
• 1991 - Miguel Indurain wins his first Tour de France teetle.
• 1993 - Andorrae joins the Unitit Naitions.
• 2001 - Alejandro Toledo becomes Preses o Peru.
• 2005 - The Proveesional Erse Republican Airmy calls an end tae its 30-year armed campaign in Northren Ireland.
• 2006 - Alan Garcia becomes Preses o Peru.
• 2010 - A plane crash in the Margalla Hills near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 152 fowk.
• 2011 - Ollanta Humala becomes Preses o Peru.
• 2014 - 2014 Commonweel Gemmes in Glesga: Scotland beats its previous Commonweel Gemmes gowd medal record wi 5 days o competeetion remainin, achievin thair 12t gowd o the gemmes.
• 2016 - Pedro Pablo Kuczynski becomes Preses o Peru.
• 2016 - Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Pairty nomination for Preses o the Unitit States.
• 2017 - Nawaz Sharif propales his demission as Prime meenister o Pakistan efter bein ruled unfit for affice ower the Panama Papers scandal.
• 2019 - Egan Bernal becomes the first Colombie cyclist tae win the Tour de France.
• 2020 - Umwhile Malaysie Prime meenister Najib Razak is sentencit tae up tae 12 year in gaol on corruption chairges.

Births

Beatrix Potter

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

• 1635 - Robert Hooke, Inglis polymath (d. 1703)
• 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1809 - John Stuart Blackie, Scots scholar (d. 1895)
• 1866 - Beatrix Potter, Inglis writer (d. 1943)
• 1874 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
• 1887 - Marcel Duchamp, French penter (d. 1968)
• 1902 - Karl Popper, Austrick-Breetish philosopher (d. 1994)
• 1906 - Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet-Roushie pheesicist (d. 1990)
• 1915 - Charles H. Townes, American pheesicist (d. 2015)
• 1925 - Harry Haddock, Scots fitbawer (d. 1998)
• 1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady o the Unitit States (d. 1994)
• 1934 - Pat Douthwaite, Scots airtist (d. 2002)
• 1934 - Bud Luckey, American animator an actor (d. 2018)
• 1937 - Francis Veber, French film director an screenwriter
• 1938 - Alberto Fujimori, umwhile Preses o Peru
• 1941 - Peter Cullen, Canadian actor
• 1943 - Richard Wright, Inglis muisicker (d. 2008)
• 1951 - Santiago Calatrava, Spaingie airchitect
• 1952 - Keeng Vajiralongkorn o Thailand
• 1954 - Hugo Chávez, Preses o Venezuela (d. 2013)
• 1965 - Daniela Mercury, Brazilian sangster, dancer, componer an producer
• 1971 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader o self-proclaimed Islamic State (d. 2019)
• 1974 - Alexis Tsipras, Greek politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Greece
• 1981 - Michael Carrick, Inglis fitbawer
• 1983 - Juan Guaido, Venezuelan politeecian
• 1985 - Mathieu Debuchy, French fitbawer
• 1987 - Pedro, Spaingie fitbawer
• 1993 - Cher Lloyd, Inglis sangster-sangwriter, rapper an model
• 1993 - Harry Kane, Inglis fitbawer

Daiths

1794: Execution o Maximilien Robespierre

• 450 - Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
• 1540 - Thomas Cromwell, Inglis politeecian (b. 1495)
• 1741 - Antonio Vivaldi, Italian componer (b. 1678)
• 1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German componer (b. 1685)
• 1767 - William Kerr, 3rd Marquess o Lowden, Scots nobleman (b. 1690)
• 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
• 1808 - Selim III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1762)
• 1934 - Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress (b. 1868)
• 1943 - Thomas Wyllie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1872)
• 1967 - David Pratt, Scots fitbawer (b. 1896)
• 1968 - Otto Hahn, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 2004 - Francis Crick, Inglis biologist (b. 1916)
• 2014 - Alex Forbes, Scots fitbawer (b. 1925)

Halidays

• Independence Day (Peru)
• Liberation Day (San Marino)
• Olavsoka Eve (Faroe Islands)