Saturday, July 28, 2012

July 28 - Bright




Bright





This Day In History
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.
1855
USS Constellation, the last all-sail warship built by the US Navy, is commissioned.
1935
First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1996
The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington, known as the Kennewick Man.
2002
Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.


Famous Birthdays
1796
Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian piano manufacturer (d. 1859)
1844
Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet (d. 1889)
1860
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1922)
1866
Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
1887
Marcel Duchamp, French painter (d. 1968)
1907
Earl Tupper, American inventor (d. 1983)
1922
Jacques Piccard, Belgian-born Swiss undersea explorer (d. 2008)
1929
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1932
Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator
1941
Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
1943
Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
1949
Randall Wallace, American screenwriter and producer
1951
Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect
1963
Michael Ruhlman, American author
1984
DeMeco Ryans, American football player

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