28 juli
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28 juli is de 209de dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 156 dagen tot het einde van het jaar.
Top reads and historical moments for this date. 3 min leestijd
Top Reads
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Police Academy is een komische mediafranchise bestaande uit zeven films, een televisieserie en een tekenfilmserie.
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De verdwijning van Madeleine McCann vond plaats op 3 mei 2007 en kreeg internationale aandacht als een langdurig onopgel…
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On This Day
10 gebeurtenissen1981
An estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million watched the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (combined coat of arms pictured) at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
1954
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, was published by Allen & Unwin.
1950
Korean War: Over fears that North Korean soldiers were infiltrating refugee columns, U.S. forces concluded a four-day massacre of hundreds of civilians through shootings and air attacks near the village of Nogeun-ri.
1938
The Essential Commodities Reserves Act, which allowed the British government to build up reserves of essential commodities in anticipation of war, received royal assent.
1921
Adolf Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
1914
The Cape Cod Canal (pictured), connecting Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, opened on a limited basis.
1914
The first shots of World War I were fired by the Austro-Hungarian river monitor Bodrog on Serbian defences near Belgrade.
1911
In a case later termed a "legal lynching", Will P. Brady obtained a guilty verdict and death sentence against 15-year-old León Martínez Jr., five days after his arrest for killing a white woman.
1900
Italian-American anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto I of Italy in Monza.
1818
French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel submitted a memoir on the diffraction of light to the Royal Academy of Sciences, providing strong support for the wave theory of light.