July 28: Significance, Events, and How to Celebrate Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1741  Capt Bering discovers Mount St Elias, Alaska.   

1741  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63   

1742  Prussia and Austria sign peace treaty   

1745  Piotr A von der Pahlen, milt governor (St Petersburg)   

1746  Thomas Heyward, soldier, signed Decl of Ind   

1746  John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies   

1750  Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65.   

1778  Charles Stewart, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1869.   

1778  Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68.   

1794  Georges Couthon, French politician, beheaded at 39   

1802  Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72   

1804  Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats)   

1808  Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey.   

1808  Charles Lucas, composer.   

1809  Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, astronomer/Major General (Union volunteers)   

1811  Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Coriolan), dies.   

1813  Alberto Mazzucato, composer.   

1821  Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)   

1825  William Duncan Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862.   

1830  In this year, Revolution in France formally adopts in place of Charles X with Louis Philippe.   

1833  James Henry Lane, Brig General (Confederate Army) [or Jun 22 1814].   

1835  Jose Garcia Robles, composer   

1837  Christian Barnekow, composer.   

1837  John Ross, composer, dies at 73   

1838  Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62   

1842  C Brentano, writer, dies at 63   

1844  Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover)   

1849  Memmon is inaugural clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY   

1849  Memmon is 1st clipper to reach SF, 120 days out of NY.   

1849  Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies   

1850  Stefano Pavesi, composer, dies at 71.   

1851  inaugural ever photograph of a total eclipse of the Sun made   

1851  Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph.   

1858  Fingerprints inaugural used as a means of identification, in France.   

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