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Events on July 28

• 1540 The English chancellor Thomas Cromwell, who arranged the fourth marriage of Henry VIII to Anne of Cleve, is executed for high treason and heresy. On the same day, Henry VIII marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
• 1794 Maximilien de Robespierre and 21 of his supporters are executed, including Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and Georges Couthon. This ends the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France.
• 1914 One month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, leading to the outbreak of the First World War.
• 1943 In Hamburg, the heaviest air raids in history to that point trigger a devastating firestorm as part of Operation Gomorrha, destroying large parts of the city, killing at least 35,000 people and leaving more than a million homeless.
• 1951 In Geneva, the agreement on the legal status of refugees, known as the Geneva Refugee Convention, is adopted.
• 1951 The Disney film Alice in Wonderland, based on the eponymous novel by Lewis Carroll, has its world premiere in the USA.
• 1962 The DFB Congress passes a resolution in Dortmund to introduce the football Bundesliga for the 1963/64 season.
• 1966 Revolver, the seventh studio album by the British group The Beatles, is released for the first time.
• 1987 The ARD television magazine Monitor reports on worms in fish tins, causing a rapid decline in demand for these canned goods. The German fishing industry subsequently goes into a crisis.
• 1996 The pay-TV channel DF1 of the Kirch Group begins broadcasting digital television in Germany, initially locally in the area around Munich.
• 2000 The Munich Research Reactor (known as “Atomei”), the first German research reactor to begin operation in Garching in 1957, is shut down.
• 2005 The IRA officially declares the end of the armed struggle against British rule in Northern Ireland.

Born on July 28

• 1866 Beatrix Potter, British author
• 1884 Kurt Landauer, German businessman, football player and sports official
• 1902 Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher
• 1941 Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
• 1951 Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect, artist and structural engineer
• 1951 Veronika Fischer, German singer
• 1953 Krista Sager, German politician, state parliament member, senator and member of the Bundestag
• 1960 Harald Lesch, German physicist, astronomer, philosopher, author and television presenter
• 1981 Michael Carrick, English football player
• 2000 Mero, German rapper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „28. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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