About the day » Sunday July 28, 1974Calender converter

• Johan Patrick Hugo Van de Cauter, Gent († 1996)
• An DE CUBBER († 1974)

• Charlotte Sophia Tuinhof de Moed (72), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clarine M. McClellan (72), San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States
• Dirkje Russchenberg (55), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Agnès Rosez (68), Ethe
• Albert Backer (66), Oudeschild
• Anneke (Ann) De Hulsters (7), Genk, België
• Darcísio Michels (26)
• Andries Aaltsen Jansen (69), Harderwijk
• Andries Jansen (69), Harderwijk
• Aaltje Harkema (73), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1971 » Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
• 1971 » Ludmilla Lacueva Canut, Andorran writer
• 1971 » Stephen Lynch, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1972 » Robert Chapman, English cricketer
• 1973 » Marc Dupré, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 » Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974 » Alexis Tsipras, Greek engineer and politician, 186th Prime Minister of Greece
• 1974 » Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
• 1975 » Leonor Watling, Spanish actress
• 1976 » Jacoby Shaddix, American singer-songwriter

• 1968 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Frank Loesser, American composer (b. 1910)
• 1969 » Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (b. 1882)
• 1971 » Charles E. Pont, French-American minister and painter (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, Canadian colonel and diplomat (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Myril Hoag, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1972 » Helen Traubel, American soprano and actress (b. 1903)
• 1979 » Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
• 1979 » Don Miller, American football player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Rose Rand, Austrian-born American logician and philosopher (b. 1903)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Johannes
4. Peter
5. Jeroen
6. Michael
7. Patrick
8. Richard
9. David
10. Robert
11. Marcel
12. Marco
13. Pieter
14. Dennis
15. Johan
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
4. Patricia
5. Johanna
6. Cindy
7. Esther
8. Bianca
9. Wendy
10. Ingrid
11. Anna
12. Jolanda
13. Nicole
14. Linda
15. Miranda
16. Saskia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
• January 2 » United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo.
• January 6 » In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• June 30 » The Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 begins.
• July 30 » Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.
• August 30 » A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
• December 19 » Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The temperature on July 28, 1974 was between 12.2 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.