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Today July 28th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1586 – The first potato arrives in Britain.
1609 – Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English Sea Venture en route to Virginia.
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 under Joseph Bonaparte.
1821 – José de San Martín declares independence for 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 passed, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
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.
1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into Russia. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so will be immediately executed.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
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 Kyushu, Japan, kill 992.
1958 – Lord Jellicoe makes his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
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.
1967 – parlimentry reforms make homosexuality legal in the United Kingdom
1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People s Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1996 – Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1997 – Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
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 call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
2005 – A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for a second time in 80 years.
Births
1347 – Margherita of Durazzo, queen of Naples (d. 1412)
1659 – Charles Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1715)
1746 – Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
1750 – Fabre d Églantine French dramatist and politician, creator of the French Republican calendar (d. 1794)
1796 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (d. 1872)
1815 – Stefan Dunjov, Banat Bulgarian military figure (d. 1889)
1844 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
1857 – Ballington Booth, co-founder of Volunteers of America (d. 1940)
1860 – Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado (d. 1925)
1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1863 – Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski, Russian general (d. 1919)
1866 – Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
1867 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (d. 1951)
1872 – Albert Sarraut, French politician (d. 1962)
1874 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (d. 1945)
1879 – Lucy Burns, American suffragist (d. 1966)
1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
1891 – Ron Oxenham, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1939)
1896 – Barbara La Marr, American actress (d. 1926)
1898 – Lawrence Gray, American actor (d. 1970)
1900 – Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (d. 1965)
1901 – Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
1901 – Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
1902 – Karl Popper, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)
1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1909 – Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (d. 1957)
1914 – Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1915 – Charles Townes, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1916 – David Brown, American film producer
1922 – Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born undersea explorer
1924 – C.T. Vivian, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
1925 – Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1926 – Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1927 – John Ashbery, American poet
1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1930 – Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006)
1930 – Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
1930 – Ramsey Withers, Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada
1931 – Johnny Martin, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1992)
1933 – Charlie Hodge, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1934 – Jacques d Amboise, American choreographer
1935 – Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
1936 – Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
1936 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
1937 – Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter
1938 – Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru
1938 – Chuan Leekpai, Thai politician and Former Prime Minister of Thailand
1938 – Luis Aragonés, Spanish football manager
1940 – Philip Proctor, American comedian
1941 – Susan Roces, Filipino actress
1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
1942 – Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
1943 – Mike Bloomfield, American musician (d. 1981)
1943 – Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1943 – Richard Wright, English musician (Pink Floyd) (d. 2008)
1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
1946 – Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
1946 – Linda Kelsey, American actress
1946 – Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist
1948 – Gerald Casale, american musician and director (founding member of Devo)
1948 – Georgia Engel, American actress
1948 – Sally Struthers, American actress
1949 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
1949 – Vida Blue, American baseball player
1949 – Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
1949 – Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and film producer
1950 – Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet
1951 – Anthony A. Williams, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
1951 – Doug Collins, American basketball player and head coach
1951 – Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1952 – Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
1952 – Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand
1954 – Bruce Abbott, American actor
1954 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
1954 – Gerd Faltings, German mathematician
1954 – Steve Morse, American guitarist
1954 – Mikey Sheehy, Gaelic footballer
1955 – Nikolay Zimyatov, Russian cross-country skier
1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and activist (d. 1981)
1958 – Michael Hitchcock, American actor
1960 – Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
1960 – Yoichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker
1961 – Yannick Dalmas, French race car driver
1961 – Alexander Kurlovitch, Soviet weightlifter
1962 – Rachel Sweet, American singer
1964 – Lori Loughlin, American actress
1965 – Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1965 – Delfeayo Marsalis, American jazz musician
1966 – Shikao Suga, Japanese singer/songwriter
1969 – Garth Snow, American ice hockey goaltender
1969 – Alexis Arquette, American actor
1969 – Dana White, UFC President
1970 – Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
1970 – Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
1970 – Paul Strang, Former Zimbabwian cricketer
1971 – Stephen Lynch, American musician
1971 – Annie Perreault, Canadian short-track speed skater
1972 – Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
1972 – Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
1972 – Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress
1973 – Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Marc Dupré, Quebec humorist and singer
1974 – Justin Lee Collins, British comedian
1975 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
1976 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1977 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
1977 – Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
1978 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer/songwriter
1979 – Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 – Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1979 – Henrik Hansen, Danish footballer
1980 – Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
1981 – Michael Carrick, English footballer
1981 – Billy Aaron Brown, American actor
1981 – Jo In Sung, South Korean actor
1982 – Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
1982 – Tom Pelphrey, American actor
1984 – DeMeco Ryans, American football player
1984 – Zach Parise, American ice hockey player
1985 – Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
1986 – Alexandra Chando, American actress
1988 – Ayla Brown, American singer
1988 – Casper Johansen, Danish footballer
1990 – Shana Swash, English actress
1990 – Soulja Boy Tell Em, American rapper
1993 – Hannah Lochner, Canadian actress
Deaths
450 – Theodosius II, Roman Emperor (b. 401)
1057 – Pope Victor II
1128 – William Clito, Count of Flanders (b. 1102)
1230 – Duke Leopold VI of Austria (b. 1176)
1285 – Queen Keran of Armenia, consort of Leo III of Armenia
1527 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador
1540 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
1631 – Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
1655 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French poet (b. 1619)
1667 – Abraham Cowley, English poet (b. 1618)
1675 – Bulstrode Whitelocke, English lawyer (b. 1605)
1685 – Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)
1718 – Etienne Baluze, French scholar (b. 1630)
1741 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (b. 1678)
1750 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
1762 – George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe, English politician (b. 1691)
1794 – Maximilien Robespierre, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1758)
1794 – Louis de Saint-Just, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1767)
1818 – Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
1835 – Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, French marshal (b. 1768)
1842 – Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
1844 – Joseph Bonaparte, older brother of Napoleon I and King of Naples and Spain (b. 1768)
1849 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (b. 1798)
1869 – Jan Evangelista Purkyne, Czech anatomist (b. 1787)
1878 – George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (b. 1820)
1895 – Edward Beecher, American theologian (b. 1803)
1930 – Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
1934 – Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (b. 1868)
1934 – Louis Tancred, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
1942 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (b. 1853)
1957 – Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
1965 – Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1967 – Karl W. Richter, Lieutenant, USAF, American aviator (b. 1942)
1968 – Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1969 – Ramón Grau, Cuban president (b. 1882)
1971 – Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1971 – Charles E. Pont, American artist (b. 1898)
1972 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1972 – Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
1979 – Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1981 – Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (b. 1935)
1982 – Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
1990 – Jill Esmond, British actress (b. 1908)
1996 – Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and educator (b. 1908)
1997 – Seni Pramoj, Thai politician (b. 1905)
1998 – Lenny McLean, English bareknuckle fighter (b. 1949)
1999 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
2000 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
2002 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
2003 – Lady Valerie Goulding, Irish politician and activist (b. 1918)
2004 – Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2004 – Sam Edwards, American actor (b. 1915)
2004 – Eugene Roche, American actor (b. 1928)
2004 – Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist (b. 1938)
2006 – David Gemmell, British writer (b. 1948)
2007 – Jim LeRoy, Airshow pilot (b. 1961)
2007 – Karl Gotch, Belgian professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2008 – Susan Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress, murdered (b. 1977)
Holidays and observances
Faroe Islands – Ólavsøka Eve
Peru – Independence Day
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