Historical Events for 28th July 2026

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1330 - Battle of Velbuzd: Serbian forces defeat Bulgarian army
1563 - French army recaptures Le Havre after the English garrison surrenders after a siege
1794 - French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" are guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
1794 - Joséphine de Beauharnais, future Empress of the French and first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, is released from prison five days after the execution of her first husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais
1967 - Pirate radio station 390 (Radio Invicta) in England closes down
2013 - 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
2018 - Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with the death toll at 5, having burned 80,000 acres
2019 - Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is revealed as the first guest editor for UK Vogue in 103 years for its September 2019 issue

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