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• ... that the Spring Street Financial District, known as the "Wall Street of the West", contains Los Angeles's first skyscraper (pictured) and more than twenty historic financial buildings?
• ... that the screenplay for the upcoming film Maya, starring Tamil actress Namitha, was written by Indian film historian Randor Guy?
• ... that Royal Marine Matthew Croucher was awarded the George Cross for diving on a live hand grenade?
• ... that pioneer aviator Bill Lancaster died in the Sahara desert exactly one year after the death of the man he was accused of murdering?
• ... that cerebral vasculitis, an inflammatory condition of the blood vessels in the brain, is so rare that there are disagreements on how it should be diagnosed?
• ... that Polish writer Gustaw Przeczek was a member of the Cultural Committee of the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia in the 1950s?
• ... that Seattle, Washington's 3.7-mile (6.0 km) Queen Anne Boulevard is designated as a city landmark, but no street sign carries that name?
  

• In cycling, Carlos Sastre (pictured) wins the 2008 Tour de France.
• A series of bomb blasts in Ahmedabad, India kills at least forty-five people and injures over one hundred. This was preceded by a series of bomb blasts in Bangalore, India that killed two people and injured twenty.
• The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq's team from competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics because of interference by the government in the national-level committee.
• Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
• India's United Progressive Alliance-led government survives a confidence vote, held after the Left Front withdraws its support over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
• Two are killed and more are injured after bus explosions in Kunming, China.

July 28: Independence Day in Peru (1821)

• 1794 – French Revolution: Reign of Terror leader Maximilien Robespierre (pictured) was guillotined one day after the National Convention ordered his arrest.
• 1809 – Peninsular War: Sir Arthur Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish army earned a Pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Talavera against French forces under Joseph Bonaparte.
• 1973 – About 600,000 people attended what was the largest musical concert in history at the Watkins Glen International Raceway near Watkins Glen, New York, USA.
• 1976 – An earthquake measuring at least 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale, flattened Tangshan, China, killing over 240,000 people.
• 1990 – Alberto Fujimori took office as President of Peru, becoming the first person of Japanese descent to be the head of government of a Latin American nation.
• 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced an end to its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland to create a United Ireland.

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