What are the important events that happened on July 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 28: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 28 is the 209^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 15, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 487,128 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneagon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 204 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,602 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 28 Historical Events

• 1364 –
  Troops of the Republic of Pisa and of the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
• 1540 –
  Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
• 1809 –
  Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley’s British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
• 1821 –
  José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
• 1914 –
  World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
• 1957 –
  Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
• 1965 –
  Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
• 1993 –
  Andorra joins the United Nations.
• 2001 –
  Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
• 2010 –
  Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.

Who were born on July 28?

• 1887 –
  Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
• 1916 –
  David Brown, American film producer (d. 2010)
• 1936 –
  Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer
• 1954 –
  Bruce Abbott, American actor
• 1954 –
  Hugo Chávez, 52nd President of Venezuela
• 1960 –
  Luiz Fernando Carvalho, Brazilian film director
• 1965 –
  Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1972 –
  Ed Templeton, American skateboarder
• 1977 –
  Aki Berg, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1980 –
  Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)

Who died on July 28?

• 1540 –
  Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1495)
• 1818 –
  Gaspard Monge, French mathematician (b. 1746)
• 1842 –
  Clemens Brentano, German poet (b. 1778)
• 1878 –
  George Law Curry, American newspaper publisher and politician (b. 1820)
• 1957 –
  Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature (b. 1876)
• 1965 –
  Sheikh Attallah Suheimat, Arab and Jordanian leader, politician,and a statesperson. (b. 1875)
• 1971 –
  Charles E. Pont, American painter and printmaker (b. 1898)
• 1972 –
  Charu Majumdar, Indian revolutionary leader (b. 1918)
• 2007 –
  Jim LeRoy, American aerobatic pilot (b. 1961)
• 2008 –
  Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1977)