On This Day July 28th

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July 28th is the two-hundredth-seventh day of the year, and there are 156 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on treason charges.

1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just were executed by guillotine in Paris, France.

1854 – USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy and now a museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, is commissioned.

1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.

1896 – The city of Miami is incorporated.

1917 – The Silent Parade takes place in New York City in protest of murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.

1939 – The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.

1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a Watkins Glen International Raceway rock festival.

2018 – Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

 

Birthdays

1750 – Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, playwright, and politician (d. 1794)

1857 – Ballington Booth, English American activist, co-founded Volunteers of America (d. 1940)

1866 – Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator (d. 1943)

1887 – Marcel Duchamp, French American painter and sculptor (d. 1968)

1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor and businessman, founded Tupperware Brands (d. 1983)

1929 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)

1958 – Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (d. 1981)

1993 – Harry Kane, English footballer

 

 

Highlighted Holiday

NATIONAL TREE DAY

In 1594, the mayor of the Spanish village of Mondoedo threw the world's first-ever arbor plantation festival. Then, in 1805, a priest named Don Juan Abern Samtrés from the Villanueva de la Sierra community decided to plant trees to make Carnival Tuesday more fun, now known as Arbor Day.

The celebration started with a Mass and lasted three days. After the Mass, Samtrés, along with priests, instructors, and a large crowd, planted the first tree - a poplar - in the Valley of the Ejido. There was a big feast and dancing afterward. Samtrés wrote a manifesto in defense of trees, which he shared with nearby towns to encourage them to plant trees in their communities.

Arbor Day was celebrated in Australia on June 20, 1889. Many states in Australia have Arbor Day, although Victoria has an Arbor Week, which Premier Rupert Hamer suggested in the 1980s. The country went further by establishing National Tree Day in 1996, and since then, the program has seen communities plant almost 26 million trees. In 2019, the Planet Ark Environmental Foundation created "The Seedling Bank" to support schools and community groups where seedlings are needed the most.

 

Holidays And Observance.

Aunties Day

Buffalo Soldiers Day

National Hamburger Day

National Milk Chocolate Day

National Waterpark Day

Parents Day

Reek Sunday

World Hepatitis Day

World Nature Conservation Day

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