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Tuesday, 28 July 2026
1986 Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67 
1987 inaugural Soul Train Music Awards Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win.
1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria.
1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires.
1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", inaugural time seen on TV since 1973.
1989 The worst oil spill to ever occur in U.S. territory begins after the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska
1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka.
1990 Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies.
1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards Ford Fairlane and Ghosts Can't Do It win
1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship.
1992 inaugural Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die
1993 Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel.
1993 Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35.
1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances.
1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die
1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
1994 Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81.
1995 Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman, dies at 88
1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards Showgirls claims.
1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way.
1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid safely transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay.
1996 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66.
1997 69th Academy Awards "The English Patient", Tom Cruise and Frances McDormand win
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's inaugural and only euthanasia law.
2000 Two 18-year-old boys are arrested in Britain on charges of breaking into e-commerce Internet sites in five countries, stealing information on more than 26000 credit card accounts and posting some of it on the Web
2005 The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan reaches its climax with the overthrow of president Askar Akayev
2012 African Union deploys 5000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony
2013 17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan.
2014 Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea.
2017 US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Obamacare after internal opposition
2018 Tens of thousands attend 'March for Our Lives' rallies held in Washington D.C. and around the world to protest gun violence
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