Schumacher equals rare record
2002 - Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher returned home in style, adding a rare and record-equalling German Grand Prix win to his historic fifth Formula One title. The German, ever the unstoppable success machine with 62 Grand Prix wins to his credit now, was in control from the moment he started his home race on pole position for the first time. On a day to delight one side of the family and disappoint the other, Schumacher led his younger brother Ralf for most of the race until the Williams driver was forced to make a third pit-stop three laps from the end. It was Schumacher’s ninth win in 12 races, equalling the record for a single season that he already holds jointly with Britain’s former champion Nigel Mansell, and his third victory in a row.
July 28
1643 - English parliamentarian force under Oliver Cromwell takes Gainsborough.
1821 - Peru declares independence from Spain.
1866 - Danish Constitution is revised to favour the king and Upper House.
1904 - The Russian Minister of Interior, Viacheslav Plehve, is assassinated.
1914 - First World War begins as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
1915 - US forces invade Haiti.
1935 - First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1937 - Japan seizes Beijing.
1976 - An earthquake in northern China kills at least 242,000 people.
1977 - The 1,286km trans-Alaska pipeline goes into full operation.
1984 - Olympic Games opens in Los Angeles.
1986 - A car stuffed with explosives rips through densely populated residential Christian area of east Beirut, killing at least 32 and wounding 140.
1988 - Indian badminton champion Syed Modi is shot dead.
1990 - Alberto Fujimori takes over as Peru’s president.
1996 - Ethiopian Fatuma Roba becomes the first African to win a gold medal in the women’s Olympic marathon event in Atlanta.
2002 - At least 78 people killed when a Ukrainian Airforce Sukhoi Su-27 jet smashes into crowds watching an air show in Lviv, Ukraine.
2004 - More than 120 people are killed in a suicide bombing and clashes in Iraq.
2005 - The Irish Republican Army guerrilla group formally announce an end to its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
2008 - Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim is found dead in her Dubai Marina apartment.
2012 - Saudi Arabian and Qatari women participate for the first time in the Olympics in London.
2013 - Lewis Hamilton wins the Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position, his first victory for Mer-cedes.
2015 - Libya court sentences Saif Al Islam, son of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi, along with eight others to death.