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July 28 Events in History - July 28 Birthdays - July 28 Deaths
July 28, 2005 IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British
July 28, 2004 Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate
July 28, 1998 After months of wrangling, Lewinsky and Starr announce a full immunity agreement for Lewinsky and her parents
July 28, 1997 Mark Messier signs with Vancouver Canucks
July 28, 1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
July 28, 1996 New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR
July 28, 1996 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic
July 28, 1995 Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore
July 28, 1994 Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
July 28, 1994 Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
July 28, 1994 Texas Ranger Kenny Rogers pitches baseball's 12th perfect game
July 28, 1993 Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. is 3rd to hit home runs in 8 straight games
July 28, 1992 Ground breaking of Florida Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
July 28, 1991 "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 105 performances
July 28, 1991 12th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
July 28, 1991 29th Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
July 28, 1991 Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley
July 28, 1991 Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history
July 28, 1991 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic
July 28, 1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins Tour de France bicycle race
July 28, 1990 Alberto Fujimoro installed as president of Peru
July 28, 1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run home runs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 home runs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
July 28, 1989 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
July 28, 1989 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
July 28, 1988 IBM announces price hike on older models
July 28, 1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
July 28, 1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
July 28, 1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
July 28, 1988 Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3
July 28, 1987 42nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies
July 28, 1987 Angel Cordero, Jr. becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
July 28, 1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
July 28, 1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
July 28, 1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
July 28, 1985 Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
July 28, 1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
July 28, 1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
July 28, 1983 AL President Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision and allows
July 28, 1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
July 28, 1983 George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks on July 24 (pine tar game)
July 28, 1983 NASA launches Telstar-3A
July 28, 1980 Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaunde Terry becomes president
July 28, 1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game
July 28, 1979 France performs nuclear Test
July 28, 1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York
July 28, 1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees
July 28, 1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
July 28, 1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
July 28, 1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
July 28, 1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
July 28, 1977 Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham vs. Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings
July 28, 1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
July 28, 1976 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die)
July 28, 1976 Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
July 28, 1976 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) and Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
July 28, 1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck, Belem, Brazil
July 28, 1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
July 28, 1973 France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
July 28, 1973 Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament
July 28, 1973 Skylab 3's astronauts, Bean, Garriott and Lousma, launched
July 28, 1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
July 28, 1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
July 28, 1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
July 28, 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam
July 28, 1964 England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
July 28, 1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
July 28, 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
July 28, 1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania
July 28, 1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
July 28, 1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
July 28, 1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes
July 28, 1959 Hawaii's 1st U.S. election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
July 28, 1958 Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship
July 28, 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance, Steve Allen Show
July 28, 1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
July 28, 1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
July 28, 1954 Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres
July 28, 1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
July 28, 1951 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater New York City after 1077 performances
July 28, 1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
July 28, 1948 I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
July 28, 1947 Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania
July 28, 1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
July 28, 1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender
July 28, 1945 U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
July 28, 1945 U.S. Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2
July 28, 1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
July 28, 1944 U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
July 28, 1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
July 28, 1943 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in U.S.
July 28, 1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
July 28, 1942 Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
July 28, 1940 Radio Orange, London begins
July 28, 1940 Yankee Charlie Keller hits 3 home runs to beat White Sox 10-9
July 28, 1939 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
July 28, 1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
July 28, 1938 Bradman scores 202 Aust vs. Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours
July 28, 1937 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
July 28, 1937 Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
July 28, 1935 Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France
July 28, 1934 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)
July 28, 1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City
July 28, 1933 NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
July 28, 1933 Spain recognizes the U.S.S.R.
July 28, 1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die
July 28, 1932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
July 28, 1931 Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
July 28, 1931 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
July 28, 1930 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record)
July 28, 1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
July 28, 1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
July 28, 1926 U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
July 28, 1919 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
July 28, 1917 Silent Parade in New York City to protest murders of blacks in race riots
July 28, 1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings
July 28, 1915 U.S. forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
July 28, 1914 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
July 28, 1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
July 28, 1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
July 28, 1913 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
July 28, 1911 96 degrees F (35.6 degrees C) in De Bilt Netherlands
July 28, 1906 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
July 28, 1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
July 28, 1898 Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
July 28, 1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman"(BG)
July 28, 1896 City of Miami incorporated
July 28, 1886 English Salisbury government forms
July 28, 1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
July 28, 1882 Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
July 28, 1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
July 28, 1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.
July 28, 1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
July 28, 1864 Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642
July 28, 1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
July 28, 1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon
July 28, 1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
July 28, 1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
July 28, 1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach San Francisco, 120 days out of New York
July 28, 1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
July 28, 1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
July 28, 1808 Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey
July 28, 1742 Prussia and Austria sign peace treaty
July 28, 1741 Capt Bering discovers Mount St. Elias, Alaska
July 28, 1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
July 28, 1708 Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
July 28, 1696 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance
July 28, 1683 Anne Stuart marries prince Georges of Denmark
July 28, 1635 Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans
July 28, 1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
July 28, 1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
July 28, 1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
July 28, 1579 Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid
July 28, 1540 English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife
July 28, 1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
July 28, 1402 Battle at Ancyra/Angora/Ankara: Timur Lenk beats sultan Bajezid I
July 28, 1148 Crusaders attack Damascus
July 28, 754 Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
July 28, 388 Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats emperor Magnus Maximis



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