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28 July is the 209th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar (210th in the high year). 156 days to the end of the year.

Events
In the Battle of Velbuzd, King Michael III Shishman suffered defeat by the Serbian army. At the head of 300 Catalans, Stefan Dushan defeated the king's Tatar Guard, and Mikhail Shishman died three days later (31 July 1330) of his wounds and in captivity.
1402 Bayazid I and took him prisoner.
1402
1540 C.E., Thomas Cromwell was beheaded by the order of King Henry VIII on the charge of treason; the same day the King married his fifth wife .
1609
In 1794, Maximilian Robespierre, one of the leaders of the French Revolution, was executed with a guillotine in Paris.
1821 "Jose de San Martin declared the independence of Peru from Spain.
1851
The 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which defines American citizenship, enters into force in 1868.
1879
In 1913 the Bucharest peace treaty ended the 1913 Union War.

1914
1942 - World War II: Soviet leader Stalin signs the famous Decree No227, according to which any retreat from the position is punishable by firing squad.
1943 - World War II: Under Operation Gomorrah, British aviation carried out a massive bombing of Hamburg during which 42,000 civilians were killed.
1945 "In a collision of an American bomber B-25 in one of New York's highest buildings, "the Empire State Building " was responsible for 14 people and 26 people were injured.
1962
1968 The Ninth World Youth and Student Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria was opened until 6 August.
1976, the Tanchan earthquake, which leveled Tanshan in the People's Republic of China, took 242,769 victims and injured 164,851 people, and became the deadliest natural disaster of the 20th century.
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