At A Glance

28 July 2016 at a glance

Day of the week
28 July 2016 was a Thursday.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “One Dance” by Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla.
Top Film of 2016
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2016 was Captain America: Civil War.
Top-Rated TV Show
“The Big Bang Theory” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2016–17 season.
Star sign
The star sign for 28 July is Leo.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 28 July 2016 fell in the Year of the Monkey.
Birthstone
The birthstone for July is Ruby.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 28 July 2016 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 2016 in the United States

A selection from Wikipedia's '2016 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

  • January 10 – 73rd Golden Globe Awards: The Revenant wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, with Leonardo DiCaprio winning the award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and Alejandro G. Iñárritu winning Best Director.
  • January 14 – The nominees for the 88th Academy Awards are announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. The nominees for Best Picture are The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Room, and Spotlight.
  • March 4 – Walt Disney Animation Studios' 55th feature film, Zootopia, is released in theatres to acclaim as the studio's most critically well-received film since 1994's The Lion King.

Life in the US in 2016

President

Barack Obama

Gas (per gallon)

$2.14

Loaf of Bread

$1.99

Average House

$307,800

Weekly Wage

$843

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