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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2022

Catastrophic floods devastate Eastern Kentucky, resulting in 45 fatalities and causing damage to thousands of homes and businesses.

2
2018

Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

3
2017

Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by Supreme Court of Pakistan after finding him guilty of corruption charges.

4
2011

While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board.

5
2010

Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.

6
2005

The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.

7
2002

Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.

8
2002

Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.

9
2001

Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.

10
1996

The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1977 Manu GinΓ³bili

Argentine basketball player

1976 Nobel laureate for Physiology or Medicine for work on Hepatitis B)

born in Brooklyn

1976 Huma Abedin

American political staffer to Hillary Clinton

1976 Jacoby Shaddix

American singer (Papa Roach)

1975 Leonor Watling

Spanish singer and actress (A mi madre le gustan las mujeres

1974 Hannah Waddingham

English actress (Ted Lasso; Game of Thrones

1974 Justin Lee Collins

British radio host

1973 Scott Bloom

American actor (Keys; Stuff)

1972 Ed Templeton

American skateboarder (Toy Machine)

1972 Elizabeth Berkley

American actress (Jessie-Saved by the Bell

1972 Yeom Jeong-ah

South Korean actress (A Tale of Two Sisters)

1971 South Sydney)

born in Maitland

1971 Stephen Lynch

American comic singer-songwriter

1970 Michael Amott

Swedish heavy metal guitarist (Arch Enemy; Spiritual Beggars)

1970 Paul Strang

Zimbabwean cricketer (Zimbabwe's 1st Test match leg-spinner)

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