07-28-2005, 05:19 AM
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July 28th
1540 ~ Thomas Cromwell was executed on order of Henry VIII on charges of treason. Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1741 ~ Death of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Composer.
1750 ~ Death of Johann Sebastian Bach, German Composer.
1794 ~ Maximilien Robespierre was guillotined in front of a cheering crowd.
1866 ~ Birthday of Beatrix Potter, English Author. (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
1904 ~ Birthday of Pavel Cherenkov, Russian Physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1945 ~ A US Army bomber accidentally crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26.
1973 ~ Watkins Glen, NY concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and the Grateful Dead.
1996 ~ The remains of a prehistoric man, Kennewick Man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
2004 ~ Death of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, Nobel Prize laureate.
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