Today is Wednesday, July 28, the 209th day of 2010. 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
1821 ― Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1830 ― Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe
1851 ― Total solar eclipse captured on a daguerreotype photograph
1866 ― Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in U.S.
1915 ― 10,000 blacks march on 5th Ave (NYC) protesting lynching
1915 ― U.S. forces invade Haiti, stays until 1924
1942 ― Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Russia
1943 ― Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns