SomeFacts | July 28

On this day - July 28

1364 — Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence ...

1402 — Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara: Timur, ruler of ...

1540 — Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.

1571 — La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in ...

1635 — Eighty Years' War: The Spanish capture the strategic ...

1656 — Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.

1778 — Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the ...

1794 — French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de ...

1808 — Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of ...

1809 — Peninsular War: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, ...

1821 — José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from ...

1854 — USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by ...

1864 — American Civil War: In the Battle of Ezra Church, Confederate ...

1866 — At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest ...

1868 — The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ...

1883 — A moderate earthquake measuring magnitude 4.3–5.2 strikes the ...

1896 — The city of Miami is incorporated.

1911 — The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora ...

1914 — World War I: In the culmination of the July Crisis, ...

1915 — The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.

1917 — Anti-lynching movement: The Silent Parade takes place in New ...

1932 — During the Great Depression, U.S. president Herbert Hoover ...

1935 — First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

1938 — Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first ...

1939 — The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.

1942 — World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. ...

1943 — World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs ...

1945 — A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the ...

1957 — Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, ...

1960 — The German Volkswagen Act comes into force.

1962 — Beginning of the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students.

1965 — Vietnam War: U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson announces his ...

1973 — Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a ...

1974 — Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.

1976 — The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment ...

1984 — Olympic Games: Games of the XXIII Olympiad: The summer ...

1996 — The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near ...

2001 — Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six ...

2002 — Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff ...

2002 — Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in ...

2005 — The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its ...

2010 — Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of ...

2011 — While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, ...

2017 — Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by Supreme ...

2018 — Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win ...

2022 — Catastrophic floods devastate Eastern Kentucky, resulting in ...