Calendar page on July 27, 2024: events, birthdays and death days

The current calendar page for the July 28, 2024:

name day

Beatus, Innocent, Samson

What happened on July 28?

2022 – Four-time Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel announces the end of his career after the current season. He wants to take more care of his family.

2004 – Following the killing of five employees by the Taliban on June 2, aid organization Doctors Without Borders temporarily withdraws completely from Afghanistan.

1999 – The last meeting of the federal cabinet before it moves to Berlin takes place in Bonn.

1989 – An Israeli commando kidnaps fundamentalist pro-Iranian Shiite leader Sheikh Abdul Karim Obeid from his home in southern Lebanon and takes him to Israel.

1914 – World War I begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

Celebrity Birthdays: Who Was Born on July 28?

1993 – Harry Kane (31), British footballer (Bayern Munich), England International Player of the Year 2017

1974 – Alexis Tsipras (50), Greek politician, Prime Minister 2015-2019

1952 – King Vajiralongkorn (72), King of Thailand since 2016

1944 – Udo Walz, German celebrity hairdresser, opened his first salon in Berlin in 1968 and died in 2020

Prominent Death Anniversaries: Who Died on July 28?

1999 – Manfred Schmidt, German cartoonist and author, inventor and illustrator of the comic strip hero Nick Knatterton, born 1913

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