Event:
A new Olympic Record in the men's 100m breaststroke is set at the 2012 Summer Olympics, by Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa
More Notable Events on July 28:
1945 Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building
1926 U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.
1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon
