Today in 1858 Fingerprints are used for the first time to prove identity; in 1896 the city of Miami, Florida is incorporated; and in 1984 the Summer Olympics begin in Los Angeles, California.

July 28 is the 209th day of the year (210th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 156 days remaining until the end of the year.

Our on this day in history archives contain over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

EVENTS

1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.

1540 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex is executed at the order of King Henry VIII of England, who marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.

1566 – A storm sinks several ships off the coast of the island of Gotland, Sweden, killing around 6,000 people.

1609 – Bermuda is settled by English sailors, after their ship, the Sea Venture, runs aground, on the way to Virginia.

1794 – French revolutionary leaders Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Saint-Just are executed on the guillotine.

1800 – First successful climb of the Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps by Martin and Sepp Klotz.

1809 – Napoleonic Wars: In the Battle of Talavera an army led by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington prevents Joseph Bonaparte from advancing into Portugal.

1821 – Peru declares independence from Spain, through Jose de San Martin.

1835 – Joseph Fieschi and co-plotters attempt an attack on Louis Philippe of France, who survives with slight injuries, though several people are killed.

1858 – Fingerprints are used for the first time to prove identity. William Herschel, Indian Civil service, used Rajyadhar Konai's print on the back of an envelope.

1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church - Confederate forces fail their third attempt to drive Union forces out of Atlanta.

1865 – Welsh settlement of Chubut, Argentina, begins.

1866 – At age 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest woman to be commissioned by the United States Government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).

1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans citizenship.

1883 – The Italian island of Ischia is struck by a powerful earthquake, killing 2,300 people.

1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.

1914 – World War I starts when Austria-Hungary goes to war with Serbia.

1932 – US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC.

1933 – Spain and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations.

1935 – First flight of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

1938 – The Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in the Trans-Pacific China Clipper service.

1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order Number 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions, without orders to do so, are to be executed.

1943 – World War II: British bombers bomb the city of Hamburg, causing a firestorm which kills around 42,000 people.

1945 – A US Army plane crashes into the Empire State Building in New York, killing 14 people.

1947 – An ammonium nitrate-loaded ship, Ocean Liberty, explodes in the harbor of Brest, Brittany, France, killing 21 people and injuring over 100.

1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, Kyushu, Japan, kill 992 people.

1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the increase of US troops in Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.

1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock music festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.

1976 – A strong earthquake, estimated at magnitude 8.2, strikes Tangshan, China. It kills 242,769 people. The estimated number of people injured is 164,851.

1977 – Spain applies for membership of the European Community.

1981 – An earthquake in Iran kills 1,500 people.

1984 – The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, begin.

1987 – A rock fall buries the village of Morignone in upper Valtellina, northern Italy, killing 53 people and making 1,500 homeless.

1990 – Alberto Fujimori becomes President of Peru.

1991 – Miguel Indurain wins his first Tour de France.

1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations.

1996 – Ivan Milat is found guilty of 7 murders in the Sydney backpacker trial.

1996 – Remains of a prehistoric man are discovered in Kennewick, Washington, later known as the Kennewick Man.

2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win 6 gold medals at a single World Championship.

2001 – Alejandro Toledo becomes President of Peru.

2005 – Tornadoes hit residential areas of Birmingham and Coventry, England, injuring 14 people.

2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its 30-year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

2006 – Alan García becomes President of Peru.

2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare, England, burns down for the second time in 80 years.

2010 – A plane crash in the Margalla Hills, near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 152 people.

2011 – Ollanta Humala becomes President of Peru.

2013 – Jewels worth 103 million euros are stolen in Cannes, France.

2013 – A coach carrying 50 people crashes into a ravine near Avellino, Campania region, Italy, killing 38 people. It was travelling to nearby Naples when it crashed.

2014 – 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow: Host nation Scotland achieves its highest-ever gold medal total at the Commonwealth Games, winning a 12th one with six days of competition remaining.

2016 – Pedro Pablo Kuczynski becomes President of Peru.

2016 – Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, becoming the first woman to become the candidate of a major US political party.

2017 – Nawaz Sharif resigns as Prime Minister of Pakistan after being ruled unfit for office over his family's involvement in the Panama Papers scandal.

2019 – Egan Bernal becomes the first Colombian cyclist to win the Tour de France and, at age 22, the youngest cyclist to win it in 110 years.

2020 – Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak found guilty on all seven counts of abuse of power, money laundering and criminal breach of trust, becoming the first Prime Minister of Malaysia to be convicted of corruption. ( Malaysia Development Berhad scandal)