Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 28
July 28: Independence Day in Peru (1821)
- 1794 - Reign of Terror leader Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) was guillotined.
- 1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting World War I.
- 1976 - The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattened Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
- 1990 - Alberto Fujimori, the first person of Japanese descent elected as an executive head of state of a Latin American nation, took office as President of Peru.
- 1996 - The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered.