Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 28
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This is a list of selected July 28 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.July 28: Independence Day in Peru (1821)
- 1794 – French Revolution: Reign of Terror leader Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) was guillotined one day after the National Convention ordered his arrest.
- 1809 – Peninsular War: Sir Arthur Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish army earned a pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Talavera against French forces under Joseph Bonaparte.
- 1914 – Austria-Hungary declared war after rejecting Serbia's conditional acceptance of only part of the July Ultimatum following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, starting World War I.
- 1976 – The Tangshan earthquake, measuring between 7.5 and 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale, flattened Tangshan, China, killing about 242,419 people and injuring 164,851 others.
- 1990 – Alberto Fujimori, the first person of Japanese descent elected as an executive head of state of a Latin American nation, took office as President of Peru.
- 1996 – The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, USA.
