July 28 1148 Second Crusade: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus
July 28 1330 Battle of Velbuzd: Serbian forces defeats Bulgarian army
July 28 1364 Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
July 28 1540 Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
July 28 1571 La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.
July 28 1635 In the Eighty Years' War the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.
July 28 1656 Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.
July 28 1809 Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
July 28 1854 USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, is commissioned.
July 28 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
For conspicuous bravery during the retreat from Maiwand to Kandahar when the officer commanding the battery was endeavouring to bring in a limber with wounded men under a cross-fire, in running forward and drawing the enemy's fire on himself, thus taking off their attention from the limber.
July 28 1915 The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
July 28 1916 For his actions on this date Claud Charles Castleton was awarded the Victoria Cross
On the night of the 28/29 July 1916 near Pozières, France, during a night attack the infantry was temporarily driven back by the intense machine-gun fire from the enemy trenches. Many wounded were left in "No Man's Land" lying in shell holes. Sergeant Castleton went out twice in the face of this intense fire, and each time brought in a wounded man on his back. He went out a third time and was bringing in another wounded man when he was himself hit in the back and killed instantly.
July 28 1932 U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
July 28 1935 First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
July 28 1942 World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.
July 28 1943 World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
July 28 1944 US 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France
July 28 1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender
July 28 1945 A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
July 28 1965 Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
July 28 1974 Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
July 28 2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
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