July 28 HOLIDAYS: EVENTS: BIRTHDAYS:

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Today is Friday, July 28, 2023.

 

👉 HOLIDAYS:

🌙 Day of Ashura in the Islamic world.
🇺🇳 World Hepatitis Day.
🇺🇳 World Conservation Day.
🌏 Day of System Administrators

 

🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇪🇸 Spain - Day of Cantabrian Institutes.
🇨🇦 Canada - Memorial Day of the Great Rebellion.
🇦🇺 Australia - School Tree Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand - King's birthday.
🇵🇪 Peru - Independence Day.
🇸🇲 San Marino - Victory Day over Fascism.

 

👉 EVENTS:

— 754 — Pope Stephen II crowns Pippin Pacana with the royal crown.
— 1299 — The famous Italian traveler Marco Polo returned to Venice
— 1586 — Sir Thomas Harriot brought potatoes to Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1741 - Vitus Bering's ship reached the shores of Alaska.
— 1794 — Robespierre, Saint-Just and 20 others were executed.
- 1821 - Peru declared independence from Spain.
— 1851 — The world's first total solar eclipse was photographed.
- 1858 - First use of fingerprints for identification.
- 1878 - Varna was liberated from the rule of the Ottoman Empire by Russian troops.
- 1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The beginning of the First World War.
- 1919 - International Astronomical Union was founded.
- 1928 - Summer Olympic Games opened in Amsterdam.
- 1929 - The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed by 48 countries.
— 1976 — 8.2 thousand 242 people died and 769 thousand 164 were injured as a result of an 851 magnitude earthquake in Tangshan, China.
- 1980 - Vladimir Vysotsky was buried in Moscow.
- 1984 - XXIII Summer Olympic Games, boycotted by socialist countries, opened in Los Angeles.
— 1989 — The Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR declared Latvia's sovereignty.
- 1994 - The Constitution of Moldova was adopted.
- 1995 - Bombay was renamed Mumbai.
- 1997 - after the collapse of the USSR, the first international youth and student festival was opened in Cuba.

 

👉 BIRTHDAYS:

— 1165 — Ibn Arabi (1240) — Islamic theologian, theorist of Sufism.
- 1635 - Robert Hooke (1703) - English physicist, chemist, mathematician, astronomer, biologist, inventor and architect.
- 1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach (1872) - German philosopher.
- 1904 - Pavel Cherenkov (1990) - Soviet physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1958).
— 1909 — Enne Burda (2005) — German publisher, founder of Burda moden magazine.
— 1915 — Charles Hard Townes (2015) — American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1964).
— 1925 — Baruch Blamberg (2011) — American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1976).
— 1929 — Jacqueline Kennedy (1994) — the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
- 1930 - Klara Yusupova - dancer, ballerina, People's Artist of Uzbekistan.
- 1934 - Ilya Averbakh (1986) - Soviet director, screenwriter.
— 1952 — Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun — King of Thailand (since 2016).
— 1954 — Hugo Chavez (2013) — President of Venezuela (1999-2002, 2002-2013).
- 1972 - Elizabeth Berkley - American actress and model.
- 1979 - Shahzoda - Uzbek pop singer, winner of the "Shuhrat" medal.
- 1983 - Dilmurod Musayev - singer, the youngest member of UNESCO in the field of art.
— 1993 — Cher Lloyd is a British singer, actress and model.