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Birthday July 28, 1165 Ibn al-'Arabi, Muslim mystic, philosopher. |
Birthday July 28, 1746 Thomas Heyward, soldier, signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
Birthday July 28, 1866 Beatrix Potter, English children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit). |
Birthday July 28, 1874 Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher, educator (Essay on Man). |
Birthday July 28, 1887 Marcel Duchamp, painter (Nude Descending a Staircase). |
Birthday July 28, 1901 Rudy Vallee, band leader, singer (My Time Is Your Time). |
Birthday July 28, 1901 Rudy Vallée is born |
Birthday July 28, 1907 Earl S. Tupper, inventor of Tupperware. |
Birthday July 28, 1922 Jacques Piccard, Swiss undersea explorer (bathyscaph Trieste). |
Birthday July 28, 1929 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis |
Birthday July 28, 1929 Future first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is born |
Birthday July 28, 1943 Bill Bradley, (D-Sen-NJ), NY Knick |
Birthday July 28, 1943 Mike Bloomfield, blues musician |
Birthday July 28, 1949 Vida Blue, major-league pitcher. |
Birthday July 28, 1958 Terry Fox, ran "Marathon of Hope" across Canada. |
Birthday July 28, 1967 Lori Loughlin, in NY |
History July 28, 1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe. |
History July 28, 1750 Bach dies |
History July 28, 1776 Sargent and Hutchinson arrive at Horn's Hook, New York |
History July 28, 1814 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to France |
History July 28, 1821 Peru gains independence |
History July 28, 1830 revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe. |
History July 28, 1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF 120 days out of N.Y. |
History July 28, 1851 total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph |
History July 28, 1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill Mo. |
History July 28, 1864 Battle of Ezra Church begins |
History July 28, 1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US |
History July 28, 1868 14th Amendment ratified citizenship to exslaves. |
History July 28, 1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Conn |
History July 28, 1906 Yankees turn a triple play beating Cleveland 6-4 |
History July 28, 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia |
History July 28, 1914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia - World War I began |
History July 28, 1915 US forces invade Haiti stay until 1924. |
History July 28, 1923 Indian agent James McLaughlin dies |
History July 28, 1931 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd National Anthem |
History July 28, 1932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment. |
History July 28, 1932 Bonus Marchers evicted by U.S. Army |
History July 28, 1933 1st Singing Telegram is delivered (to Rudy Vallee) NYC |
History July 28, 1935 Tazio Nuvolari triumphs over Germans at the Nurburgring |
History July 28, 1940 Yankee Charle Keller hits 3 HRs |
History July 28, 1943 Hamburg suffers a firestorm |
History July 28, 1945 Plane crashes into Empire State Building |
History July 28, 1945 U.S. Senate approves United Nations charter |
History July 28, 1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released |
History July 28, 1964 US Ranger 7 launched for lunar impact between Mare Nubium |
History July 28, 1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures. |
History July 28, 1964 US launches Ranger 7 to the Moon |
History July 28, 1965 Johnson announces more troops to Vietnam |
History July 28, 1972 CIA reports minor damage done to North Vietnam's dikes |
History July 28, 1973 Skylab 3's astronauts are launched |
History July 28, 1976 242 000 killed in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) earthquake. |
History July 28, 1976 Eldon Joersz & Geo. Morgan set world air speed record of 3 530 kph. |
History July 28, 1976 Worst modern earthquake |
History July 28, 1978 At Old Timer's Game it is announced Martin will again manage Yankees |
History July 28, 1978 Animal House released |
History July 28, 1990 A soft drink containing liquid cocaine sickens an unsuspecting drinker |
History July 28, 1991 Dennis Martinez pitches perfect game |