Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on July 28 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
the main upstream origin of the world's longest river — is one of the main geographical discoveries of European 19th-century exploration, and the identification of Lake Victoria as the main source by John Hanning Speke on July 28, 1858, with confirmation on his return expedition…
The Tangshan Earthquake of July 28, 1976 struck at 3:42 am local time — a magnitude 7.5 earthquake (some scientific reanalysis suggests possibly stronger) that almost completely destroyed the city of Tangshan within minutes; official Chinese government figures count 242,419…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →