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The ship that became the Yugoslav monitor Sava began as SMS Bodrog, a river monitor built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I on the night of 28 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. She fought the Serbian and Romanian armies during the war, and was captured in its closing stages. She was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and renamed Sava. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she fought off several air attacks, but was scuttled on 11 April. Sava was later raised by the Independent State of Croatia, an Axis puppet state, and continued to serve under that name until 1944 when she was again scuttled. Following World War II, Sava was raised again, and was refurbished to serve in the Yugoslav Navy from 1952 to 1962. After that she became a commercial gravel barge. In 2005, the government of Serbia granted her limited heritage protection after citizens demanded that she be preserved as a floating museum. (Full article...)

Launch of USS Albacore

• ... that the hull of USS Albacore (launch pictured) had the Lyon Shape that was originally designed for airships by a woman?
• ... that early coffee vending machines used instant coffee powder mixed with hot water, while some modern machines fresh-grind the coffee and dispense various espresso drinks?
• ... that Mithuben Petit, a woman freedom fighter during the British Raj, played a major part in the Salt March with Mahatma Gandhi?
• ... that the
  32nd chapter of the Quran
  is known by the name "The Prostration", and alternatively, "The Beds"?
• ... that Richard Saltonstall Rogers, a political enemy of Nathaniel Hawthorne, has been suggested as the inspiration for a character in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?
• ... that when the Theater Münster opened in 1956, it was regarded as the first new theatre in Germany after World War II?
• ... that huli-huli chicken is turned on a spit, and named from the Hawaiian word huli, meaning "turn"?
• ... that Donald Trump urged his Twitter followers not to buy the biography Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher?

Jordan Spieth

• In golf, Jordan Spieth (pictured) wins the Open Championship.
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• In cycling, Chris Froome wins the Tour de France.
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• Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, dies at the age of 40.
• Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese pro-democracy activist, political prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, dies at the age of 61.

July 28:

Sutton Hoo helmet

• 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, architects of the Reign of Terror, were executed after having been arrested the previous day.
• 1821 – Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from Spain.
• 1939 – During an excavation of a ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archæologists discovered a helmet (pictured) likely belonging to King Rædwald of East Anglia.
• 1995 – Two followers of Rajneesh were convicted for the attempted assassination of the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon.
• 2010 – In the deadliest air accident in Pakistan's history, Airblue Flight 202 crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, killing all 152 aboard.

Shi Jingtang (d. 942) · Beatrix Potter (b. 1866) · Clara Ng (b. 1973)

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