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Events on the 28th of July in history

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28 Jul 0388 Battle at Aquileja: Emperor Theodosius beats Emperor Magnus Maximis
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28 Jul 0754 Pope Stephen II, [III] makes Pippin de Korte, King of France
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28 Jul 1402 Battle at Ancyra / Angora / Ankara: Timur Lenk beats Sultan Bajezid I
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28 Jul 1434 Navigator Gil Eanes leaves Cape Bojador for Lisbon
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28 Jul 1540 English King Henry VIII marries Catharine Howard, his 5th wife
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28 Jul 1579 Cardinal Granvelle returns to Madrid
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28 Jul 1586 Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
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28 Jul 1588 Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
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28 Jul 1609 Admiral George Somers settles in Bermuda
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28 Jul 1635 Spanish marshal Piccolomini conquerors Schenkenschans
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28 Jul 1683 Anne Stuart marries Prince Georges of Denmark
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28 Jul 1696 De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French Minister of Finance
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28 Jul 1708 Monarch Amengkurat II [Sunan Mas] of Mataram gives himself up to VOC
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28 Jul 1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs
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28 Jul 1741 Captain Bering discovers Mount St. Elias, Alaska
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28 Jul 1742 Prussia and Austria sign peace treaty
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28 Jul 1808 Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as Sultan of Turkey
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28 Jul 1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
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28 Jul 1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
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28 Jul 1849 Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of New York
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28 Jul 1851 Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
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28 Jul 1858 1st use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by
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28 Jul 1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo (in a balloon)
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28 Jul 1858 William Herschel of the Indian Civil Service in India
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28 Jul 1862 Confederate forces defeated at More's Hill, Mo
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28 Jul 1864 2nd day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia
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28 Jul 1864 Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church) - second sortie US700 CS4642
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28 Jul 1864 Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Ezra Church
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28 Jul 1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US
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28 Jul 1868 14th Amendment ratified, grants citizenship to ex-slaves
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28 Jul 1882 Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
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28 Jul 1882 The opera "Parsifal" is produced (Bayreuth)
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28 Jul 1883 Shocks triggered by volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy) destroyed 1,200 houses at Casamicciola killing 2,000
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28 Jul 1883 Shocks triggered by the volcano Epomeo (Isle of Ischia, Italy)
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28 Jul 1886 English Salisbury government forms
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28 Jul 1887 New York Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs
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28 Jul 1896 City of Miami incorporated
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28 Jul 1898 Spanish troops in Ponce, Puerto Rico, surrender
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28 Jul 1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Retired Colourman" (BG)
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28 Jul 1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
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28 Jul 1906 Yankees turn triple-play, beat Cleveland 6-4
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28 Jul 1913 12th Davis Cup: USA beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
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28 Jul 1913 US wins its 1st Davis Cup since 1902, beating England, 3-2
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28 Jul 1914 Minister of Navy W Churchill routes British fleet to Scapa Flow
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28 Jul 1914 World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
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28 Jul 1914 Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia-WW I begins
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28 Jul 1914 Foxtrot 1st danced at New Amsterdam Roof Garden (NYC, by Harry Fox)
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28 Jul 1915 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynchings
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28 Jul 1915 US forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
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28 Jul 1917 Silent Parade in NYC to protest murders of blacks in race riots
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28 Jul 1919 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
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28 Jul 1926 US and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal
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28 Jul 1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam
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28 Jul 1928 Olympics open at Amsterdam
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28 Jul 1929 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Mich)
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28 Jul 1930 114
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28 Jul 1931 Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
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28 Jul 1931 White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
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28 Jul 1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die
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28 Jul 1932 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
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28 Jul 1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), New York City
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28 Jul 1933 Spain recognizes the USSR
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28 Jul 1933 NFL divides into 2, 5 team divisions
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28 Jul 1934 118
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28 Jul 1935 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1386 Storeria
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28 Jul 1937 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
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28 Jul 1937 Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
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28 Jul 1938 34,000-ton Cunard-White Star liner Mauretania launched at Birkenhead
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28 Jul 1938 Bradman scores 202 Aust vs. Somerset, 225 mins, 32 fours
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28 Jul 1938 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1485 Isa
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28 Jul 1939 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls
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28 Jul 1940 Radio Orange, London begins
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28 Jul 1940 Yankee Charle Keller hits 3 HRs to beat White Sox 10-9
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28 Jul 1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
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28 Jul 1942 Zionists partisans ZOB forms in Poland
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28 Jul 1943 President FDR announces end of coffee rationing in US
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28 Jul 1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
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28 Jul 1944 Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
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28 Jul 1944 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
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28 Jul 1945 Japanese Premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
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28 Jul 1945 US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
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28 Jul 1945 US Senate ratifies UN charter 89-2
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28 Jul 1948 I.G. Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
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28 Jul 1951 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 performances
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28 Jul 1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
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28 Jul 1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
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28 Jul 1954 Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres
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28 Jul 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)
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28 Jul 1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
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28 Jul 1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
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28 Jul 1958 Baltimore Colts wins NFL-championship
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28 Jul 1959 Great-Britain starts using postal codes
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28 Jul 1959 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
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28 Jul 1960 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
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28 Jul 1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania
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28 Jul 1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
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28 Jul 1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
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28 Jul 1964 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures
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28 Jul 1965 LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
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28 Jul 1967 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) (England) closes down
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28 Jul 1971 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
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28 Jul 1971 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
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28 Jul 1972 39th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Dallas 20, All Stars 7 (54,162)
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28 Jul 1973 Skylab 3's astronauts (Bean, Garriott & Lousma) launched
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28 Jul 1974 Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Wheeling Ladies Golf Classic
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28 Jul 1974 69 die when packed bus strikes heavy truck (Belem, Brazil)
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28 Jul 1976 8.2 and 7.4 earthquake devastate Tangsha, China (240-750,000 die)
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28 Jul 1976 Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 km/h
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28 Jul 1976 242,000 die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) 8.2 earthquake
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28 Jul 1976 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's
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28 Jul 1977 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
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28 Jul 1977 1st oil flow through the Alaska pipeline
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28 Jul 1977 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin L Hooks
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28 Jul 1978 600,000 attend Watkins Glen Summer Jam in New York
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28 Jul 1978 At Old Timer's Game it's announced Martin will again manage Yankees
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28 Jul 1978 Perth Observatory discovers asteroid #3188 & #3422
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28 Jul 1978 Price of gold tops $200-an-oz level for 1st time
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28 Jul 1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game
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28 Jul 1980 Fernando Bela
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28 Jul 1983 NASA launches Telstar-3A
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28 Jul 1983 AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out umpire's decision & allows
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28 Jul 1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
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28 Jul 1985 13th du Maurier Golf Classic: Pat Bradley
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28 Jul 1985 L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame
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28 Jul 1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed
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28 Jul 1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated
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28 Jul 1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith
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28 Jul 1987 Angel Cordero Jr becomes the 4th jockey to win 6,000 races
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28 Jul 1988 IBM announces price hike on older models
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28 Jul 1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
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28 Jul 1988 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
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28 Jul 1988 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson
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28 Jul 1988 Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3
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28 Jul 1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
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28 Jul 1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit
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28 Jul 1990 Alberto Fujimoro installed as President of Peru
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28 Jul 1990 Blackout hits Chicago
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28 Jul 1991 "Gypsy" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 105 performances
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28 Jul 1991 12th US Seniors Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
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28 Jul 1991 29th Tennis Federation Cup: Spain beats USA in Nottingham England (2-1)
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28 Jul 1991 Buffalo Bills beat Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13 in American Bowl in Wembley
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28 Jul 1991 Dennis Martinez pitches the 15th perfect game in baseball history
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28 Jul 1991 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Bay State Golf Classic
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28 Jul 1991 Expo's Dennis Martinez pitches baseball's 15th perfect game (Dodgers)
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28 Jul 1991 Miguel Indurain of Spain wins the Tour de France bicycle race
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28 Jul 1992 Ground breaking of Florida Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
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28 Jul 1993 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
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28 Jul 1994 Baseball players decide to strike on August 12, 1994
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28 Jul 1996 New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th HR
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28 Jul 1996 Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Micelob Light Heartland Golf Classic
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28 Jul 1997 Mark Messier signs with Vancouver Canucks
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28 Jul 1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
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28 Jul 2061 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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