On This Day
28 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1858 First use of fingerprints as a means of identification is made by Sir William James Herschel of the Indian Civil Service.
- 1979 Chaudhary Charan Singh became the fifth Prime Minister of the country.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1586 Upon his return to England from circumnavigation, Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe.
- 1750 Composer Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the greatest composers of all time, died in Leipzig, Germany.
- 1868 The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution—which granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves entered into force.
- 1914 Using the assassination of the Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand as a pretext to present Serbia with an unacceptable ultimatum, Austria-Hungary declared war on the Slavic country, sparking World War I.
- 1945 Japanese premier Kantaro Suzuki disregards US ultimatum to surrender.
- 1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva arrive on the Pacific island of Tinian with the plutonium core used to assemble the Fat Man, the bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9.
- 1959 Postal codes are introduced in United Kingdom.
- 1976 Eldon Joersz and Geo Morgan, American pilots, set world air speed record after hitting an incredible 3,529.56km/h.
- 1976 A devastating earthquake of 8.3 magnitude hits the city of Tangshan, China, resulting in huge loss of lives.
- 2005 The Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces an end to its 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Hepatitis Day, observed on July 28 every year, aims to raise global awareness of hepatitis — a group of infectious diseases known as hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E — and encourage prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
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