About the day » Thursday July 28, 2005Calender converter

• Hannah Maree Reesink

• Cornelia Alberdina Fris (87), Capelle aan den IJssel
• Beryl Jean Schlaadt (85), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Arline Frances Hill (82), Farmington, Franklin, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Clayton L. Montanye (76), Broken Bow, Custer County, Nebraska
• Doris Isabell Oihus (79)
• Carolus Josephus Maria DRIES (92), Weelde, Ravels, Belgium
• Christiaan Ferdinand Maria Anthonie Ghislain Graaf van Hemptinne (83), St. Pieters-Leeuw, Brabant, Vlaanderen
• Annigje Oldejans (80), Heerlen
• "Christian" Ferdinand Marie de Hemptinne (83), Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Cornelis Jacobus van Winden (63)

• 1987 » Yasser Corona, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian-Greek footballer
• 1988 » Greg Hardy, American football player
• 1989 » Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian martial artist
• 1990 » Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1993 » Cher Lloyd, English singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Harry Kane, English footballer
• 1993 » Moses Odubajo, English footballer
• 1995 » Josh Addo-Carr, Australian rugby league player

• 2000 » Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2006 » David Gemmell, English author (b. 1948)
• 2007 » Jim LeRoy, American soldier and pilot (b. 1961)
• 2007 » Karl Gotch, Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)
• 2009 » Jim Johnson, American football player and coach (b. 1941)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• May 13 » Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.
• July 2 » The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
• July 27 » After an incident during STS-114, NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an investigation of the continuing problem with the shedding of foam insulation from the external fuel tank.
• August 31 » The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
• November 30 » John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
• December 5 » The 6.8 M_w  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.

The temperature on July 28, 2005 was between 16.2 °C and 28.5 °C and averaged 22.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.