July 28 in history
Events on July 28
Notable events that happened on July 28 in past years.
- 2022
Catastrophic floods devastate Eastern Kentucky, resulting in 45 fatalities and causing damage to thousands of homes and businesses.
Wikipedia article: 2022 Appalachian floods - 2011
While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board.
Wikipedia article: Seoul - 2002
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.
Wikipedia article: Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 - 1984
Olympic Games: Games of the XXIII Olympiad: The summer Olympics were opened in Los Angeles.
Wikipedia article: Olympic Games - 1973
Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
Wikipedia article: Summer Jam at Watkins Glen - 1957
Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
Wikipedia article: Isahaya, Nagasaki - 1942
World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
Wikipedia article: World War II - 1932
During the Great Depression, 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.
Wikipedia article: Great Depression - 1914
World War I: In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on the Kingdom of Serbia and begins the Great War.
Wikipedia article: World War I - 1883
A moderate earthquake measuring magnitude 4.3–5.2 strikes the Italian island of Ischia, killing over 2,300 people.
Wikipedia article: 1883 Casamicciola earthquake - 1854
USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy and current museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, is commissioned.
Wikipedia article: USS Constellation (1854) - 1808
Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
Wikipedia article: Mahmud II - 1656
Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.
Wikipedia article: Northern War of 1655–1660 - 1540
Thomas Cromwell is executed after having been condemned untried, using a bill of attainder which Cromwell had used against his opponents.
- 484
Pope Felix III excommunicated patriarch Acacius of Constantinople for his support of the Henoticon and his support of the removal of patriarch John Talaia, leading to the Acacian schism.
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