Today is Tuesday, July 28, the 209th day of 2009. There are 156 days left in the year.
1588 _ Spanish Armada sails to overthrow England's Queen Elizabeth I
1821 _ Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1830 _ Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
1866 _ Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.
1900 _ Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1914 _ Austria-Hungary attacks Serbia ― WW I begins
1942 _ Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk, Russia
1943 _ Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1945 _ U.S. Senate ratifies U.N. charter 89-2
1951 _ Walt Disney's ``Alice In Wonderland" released