July 28: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

July 28th marks the 209th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 210th in case of leap years). There are 156 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Hugo Chávez (1954) and Soulja Boy (1990). Holidays and observances around the world include: World Hepatitis Day [WHO].
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Holidays

St. Celsus
St. Victor
St. Innocent
Roman Catholicism - the feasts of at least 5 saints: St. Nazarius
San Marino - Fall of the Fascist Government
Peru - Independence Day
Canada - Commemoration of the deportation of the Acadians
St. Sampson (a bishop)
Faroe Islands - álavsáka Eve
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Events

2019 28 July 2019, Kabul suicide bombing: Gunfire, an explosion and more than 50 people were killed in a attack on the Kabul office for Vice Presidential candidate Amrullah Salh. Saleh was only slightly hurt in the attack.
2018 The ground breaking for the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park (Illinois) is being pushed back until all federal approvals have been completed. This won't happen until 2019.
2017 2017 Hamburg attack: A knife attack at the Edeka supermarket, Barmbek in Hamburg leaves one person dead and four others injured. Olaf Scholz, the Mayor of Hamburg, stated that the attackers were motivated by hatred. According to reports, the attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" before attacking.
2016 Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defense Minister, says Russia and Syria will open humanitarian routes to Aleppo and provide a means for rebel fighters of the conflict to surrender their arms.
2015 At least 29 people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks on northern Nigerian villages.
2014 Pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine 2014: Ukrainian forces retake control of Savur Mohyla, Donetsk's strategic height from pro-Russian rebels. Interfax: Ukrainian forces retake control of Debaltseve and Shakhtarsk in Donetsk from pro-Russian separatists. (Kyiv Post). The US and EU have increased sanctions against Russia.
2013 Iraqi insurgency after the U.S. withdrawal: At least eight police officers were killed in a suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato, Iraq.
2012 The Syrian Army launches an attack on Aleppo, a rebel-held city.
2011 In a clash with Abu Sayyaf militants at Jolo Island, seven Philippine Army soldiers were killed and 21 others were injured.
2010 25 people were killed when a bomb was dropped on a bus carrying civilians in Nimruz Province, southwest Afghanistan. (Press TV),
2009 After a boat carrying 200 Haitian migrants sinks in the Turks and Caicos Islands, at least 15 people are killed and 65 others are missing,
2008 Stack's holds an auction before the ANA convention in Baltimore.
2007 Pakistan is concerned about a draft United States Congress bill that ties foreign aid to progress against Al Qaeda/Taliban,
2006 Six people are shot, one fatally, at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington in a religiously-motivated killing spree. The attacker was identified as a Muslim American angry about the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.
2005 Tornadoes struck residential areas in south Birmingham, Coventry England. They caused?4,000,000 in damages and injured 39 people.
2004 According to the Catholic Church, a "weeping" statue at a Vietnamese Catholic Centre near Brisbane is not a miracle.
2003 Harri Holkeri is appointed by the United Nations Security Council to lead UNMIK's temporary civilian administration.
2002 Cyclist Lance Armstrong wins his fourth consecutive Tour de France.
2001 Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe wins six gold medals at the World Championships.
1997 Mark Messier signs with Vancouver Canucks
1996 New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR
1994 Baseball players decide to strike on August 12, 1994
1993 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
1992 Ground breaking of Florida Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
1991 Gypsy closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 105 performances
1990 Blackout hits Chicago
1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
1988 IBM announces price hike on older models
1987 Angel Cordero Jr becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1983 NASA launches Telstar-3A
1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a second three home run game.
1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York
1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
1971 Dutch ends censorship of Blue Movie
1967 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down
1966 The U.S. announces that a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
1965 LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam
1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes
1958 Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance
1955 The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
1954 Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres
1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
1951 Kiss Me, Kate closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 performances
1948 The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the ''Battle of London Airport''.
1945 Japanese Premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1943 President Franklin Roosevelt announces end of coffee rationing in the US.
1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
1940 Radio Orange, London begins
1939 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
1937 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
1935 First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1934 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Orofino, Idaho (state record).
1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City
1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die
1931 Congress makes Star-Spangled Banner our 2nd national anthem
1930 114 degrees F (46 degrees C), Greensburg, Kentucky (state record high).
1929 Chicago Cardinals become first NFL team to train out of state (Michigan).
1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
1926 US and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
1921 President Warren Harding issues executive order requiring coin designs to come under purview of Commission of Fine Arts.
1919 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
1917 Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots
1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (New York City) protesting lynchings.
1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
1913 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut.
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