SATURDAY, JULY 28, 2012

Today is Saturday, July 28, the 210th day of 2012. There are 156 days left in the year.

1586 ― Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe

1588 ― Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I

1866 ― Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.

1882 ― The opera ``Parsifal" is produced (Bayreuth)

1900 ― Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut

1943 ― Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns

1945 ― U.S. Senate ratifies U.N. Charter 89-2

1990 ― Blackout hits Chicago

1991 ― Miguel Indurain of Spain wins the Tour de France bicycle race

2061 ― 31st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet