About July 28
July 28, 2025 is the 209th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 204 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On July 28
- 1364 –Troops of the Republic of Pisa and of the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
- 1794 –Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
- 1821 –José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church – Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1868 –The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is certified, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
- 1914 –World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
- 1932 –U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
- 1933 –Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
- 1935 –First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
- 1948 –The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the “Battle of London Airport”.
- 1955 –The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
- 1957 –Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
- 1965 –Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
- 1996 –The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
- 2001 –Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
- 2002 –Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
- 2005 –The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
- 2008 –The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
- 2010 –Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.
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