July 28

This day in history:

• 1854 – USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy and current museum ship in Baltimore Harbor, is commissioned.
• 1896 – The city of Miami is incorporated.
• 1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• 1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.

Births:

• 1874 – Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (died 1945)
• 1952 – Vajiralongkorn, King of Thailand
• 1979 – Lee Min-woo, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

Deaths:

• 1982 – Keith Green, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1953)
• 1933 – Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (born 1890)
• 1990 – Jill Esmond, English actress (born 1908)

Holidays:

• Ólavsøka Eve (Faroe Islands)
• Fiestas Patrias, celebrates the independence of Peru from Spain by General José de San Martín in 1821.
• Liberation Day (San Marino)

Random Article of the day:

HMS Ferret (1806)

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