Daily Calendar for Monday, July 28, 2025

Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) – 1750
Marie Dressler (actress) – 1934
Roger Tory Peterson (American artist & ornithologist) – 1996
Francis Crick (Nobel Prize-winning scientist who co-discovered the spiral, double-helix structure of DNA) – 2004
Eileen Brennan (actress) – 2013

Great fire in Moscow– 1493
Thomas Cromwell was executed on order from King Henry VIII on charges of treason– 1540
Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard– 1540
Maximilien Robespierre was guillotined, ending the Reign of Terror (French Revolution)– 1794
The metric system became legal in the United States– 1866
U.S. occupation of Haiti began– 1915
NFL added a fourth official, the field judge– 1929
WWII coffee rationing in the United States ended– 1943
A U.S. bomber flying through thick fog at about 200 mph crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people– 1945
President Lyndon B. Johnson requested that 50,000 additional soldiers be sent to Vietnam– 1965
Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett were married– 1973
First oil through the Alaskan Pipeline reached Valdez Marine Terminal in Alaska– 1977
255-pound 4-ounce Atlantic halibut caught near Gloucester, Massachusetts– 1989
The remains of a prehistoric man were discovered near Kennewick, Washington– 1996
Nine coal miners rescued after being trapped 77 hours in flooded Quecreek Mine, Somerset, Pennsylvania– 2002

Southern Mississippi was hit by the Bay St. Louis Hurricane, in which the U.S. ship Cutter sank and 39 crew members died– 1819
An enterprising citizen successfully fried an egg on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on this hot July day– 1944
Due to thick fog, a U.S. B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 14 people.– 1945