July 28 in History

Historical Events on July 28

1794 French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.

1864 American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.

1868 The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.

1896 The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.

1914 In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.

1932 U.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.

1935 First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

1939 The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.

1942 World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.

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Famous Birthdays on July 28

1929 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

1954 Hugo Chávez

1971 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

1993 Harry Kane

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Famous Deaths on July 28

1750 Johann Sebastian Bach

1794 Maximilien Robespierre

1968 Otto Hahn

2004 Francis Crick

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