July 28: Day of the Week
July 28, 2021 is the 209th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.
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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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July 28 Historical Event(s)
- 1794Maximilien Robespierre is executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
- 1932U.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.
- 1935First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
- 1945A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
- 1955The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
- 1976The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People’s Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
- 1993Andorra joins the United Nations.
- 1996The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
- 2005The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
- 2005Tornadoes touch down in a residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
Who were born on July 28?
- 1867Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born Argentine astronomer (d. 1951)
- 1901Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1901Rudy Vallee, American entertainer (d. 1986)
- 1936Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
- 1941Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor
- 1946Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
- 1948Sally Struthers, American actress
- 1949Steve Peregrin Took, English singer (d. 1980)
- 1963Beverley Craven, British singer
- 1990Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
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