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28 July 2011 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 28 July 2011 was a Thursday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock.
- Top Film of 2011
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2011 was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
- Bestselling Novel of 2011
- “The Litigators” by John Grisham was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2011.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Sunday Night Football” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2011–12 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 28 July is Leo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 28 July 2011 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for July is Ruby.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 28 July 2011 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 28 July
- 2001 Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.
- 2002 Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
- 2005 The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
- 2017 Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by Supreme Court of Pakistan after finding him guilty of corruption charges.
- 2018 Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first female skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
Famous people born on July 28
- Peter Cullen, Canadian voice actor (1941–2026)
- Harry Kane, English footballer (born 1993)
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist and socialite, 37th First Lady of the United States (1929–1994)
- Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (1958–1981)
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Events of 2011 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2011 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 27 – The 83rd Academy Awards, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway, are held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Tom Hooper's The King's Speech wins four awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
- March 11 – Following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami warning to parts of the U.S. West Coast along the affected coastal areas in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories in the Pacific Ocean.
- April 15 – Rio is released in theaters.
Life in the US in 2011
President
Barack Obama
Gas (per gallon)
$3.52
Loaf of Bread
$1.74
Average House
$242,300
Weekly Wage
$737
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