Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
July 28
| 1540 | Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard. | |
| 1615 | French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World. | |
| 1794 | Robespierre is beheaded in France. | |
| 1808 | Sultan Mustapha of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and his cousin Mahmud II gains the throne. | |
| 1835 | King Louis-Philippe of France survives an assassination attempt. | |
| 1863 | Confederate John Mosby begins a series of attacks against General Meade's Army of the Potomac. | |
| 1868 | The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States, is adopted. | |
| 1898 | Spain, through the offices of the French embassy in Washington, D.C., requests peace terms in its war with the United States. | |
| 1914 | Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I. | |
| 1920 | Pancho Villa surrenders to the Mexican government. | |
| 1932 | The Bonus Army of impoverished World War I veterans is violently pushed out of Washington, D.C. | |
| 1941 | A Japanese army lands on the coast of Cochin, China (modern day Vietnam). | |
| 1945 | A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 13 people. | |
| 1965 | President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 50,000 troops to South Vietnam. | |
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Born on July 28 |
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| 1844 | Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet and Jesuit priest. | |
| 1866 | Beatrix Potter, children's author (The Tale of Peter Rabbit). | |
| 1887 | Marcel Duchamp, French artist. | |
| 1901 | Harry Bridges, American labor leader. | |
| 1902 | Kenneth Fearing, poet and novelist (The Big Clock). | |
| 1907 | Earl Silas Tupper, founder of Tupperware. | |
| 1927 | John Ashbery, Pultizer Prize-winning poet (Self-Portrait in a Convict's Mirror). | |
| 1927 | Baruch Blumberg, physician, medical researcher. | |
| 1929 | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, wife of President John F. Kennedy. | |
| 1943 | Bill Bradley, basketball player, U.S. senator. | |
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