Wikipedia:Main Page history/2016 July 28

Voltaire Twombly

• ... that Voltaire P. Twombly (pictured) continued to carry his company’s flag after being knocked to the ground by cannon fire during the Battle of Fort Donelson?
• ... that the remix record for Disclosure's second extended play The Face features a re-cut from Hot Chip's Joe Goddard?
• ... that Marco Mena was the first Mexican to pursue a master's degree in public policy from the University of Chicago?
• ... that the
  House of Councillors
  this month?
• ... that the priest Nicolae Cristea was a newspaper editor for eighteen years, until his bishop fired him for writing an article sharply critical of Hungarian Prime Minister Kálmán Tisza?
• ... that tonnes of Nabataean spices and silver were looted by the Greeks during one of the Antigonid–Nabataean confrontations?
• ... that the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling contributed to closing slot machines in South Carolina?

Solar Impulse 2

• Solar Impulse 2 (pictured) becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth, completing a 16-month voyage.
• At least 19 people are killed and 26 others are injured in a stabbing incident at a disabled care home in Sagamihara, Japan.
• In cycling, Chris Froome wins his third Tour de France title.
• ISIL suicide bombers attack a peaceful protest in Kabul
  , Afghanistan, killing at least 80 people and injuring 260 others.
• In
  London Grand Prix
  .

July 28: World Hepatitis Day

Ian Thorpe

• 1821 – Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from Spain.
• 1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln in the US Capitol rotunda.
• 1914 – Austria-Hungary declared war after rejecting Serbia's conditional acceptance of only part of the July Ultimatum following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, starting World War I.
• 1932 – US President Herbert Hoover ordered the eviction of the "Bonus Army"—a group of veterans who were occupying government property to demand immediate payment for money owed.
• 2001 – At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe (pictured) became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.