Friday 28 July 2023

ON THIS DAY JULY 28th - JUST FOR FUN


1794 - French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris

1917 Silent Parade organised by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000 African-Americans who march on 5th Ave in NYC to protest against lynching

2005 -    The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland

1932"White Zombie" - 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Béla Lugos is released in the US

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