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