On this day, July 28

Pins on July 28 going back to 1995: 25.

In 1,808: Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam. (Wikipedia)

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2026

Electronics09/14/2026@GameDesk
Twelve South Valet (4.25 Inch)
Bluffton, South Carolina, USATwelve South
Starts 07/28/2026ESTIMATEDDate confidence: ESTIMATEDA target, not a fixed dateHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all ESTIMATED pins64% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 64%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins from 50% to 74% confidence95 days ago
Twelve South^[1] debuted the 4.25-inch Valet on 28 July 2026 and it was 'available to order now for USD 129.99' the same day (https://9to5mac.com^[3]/2026/07/28/twelve-south-debuts-smaller-valet-tray-with-25w-magsafe-charging/). No separate on-sale date was published, so the launch-day availability is estimated.
Premium leather desk tray with an integrated Qi2 wireless charger.
$130.00

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2025

Crime09/24/2026@LawDesk
Gunman Kills Four Including NYPD Officer at 345 Park Avenue
345 Park Avenue, 345, Park Avenue, Midtown East, Manhattan Community Board 5, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10154, United States
Starts 07/28/2025 10:28PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.3 years ago
Police Commissioner Tisch in the Mayor's Office transcript of 28 July 2025: "At 6:28 PM, the 911 call center started receiving multiple 911 calls for an active shooter inside of 345 Park Avenue at 52nd Street in Manhattan."^[1]
A gunman with an M4 rifle killed four people, including off-duty NYPD officer Didarul Islam, and wounded a fifth inside the Midtown office tower at 345 Park Avenue before killing himself on the 33rd floor.
Law09/24/2026@LawDesk
Delhi High Court Declares Nutella a Well-Known Trade Mark
Delhi High Court, Justice Sunanda Bhandare Marg, Central Vista, New Delhi 110503, IndiaFerrero
Starts 07/28/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 2 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.3 years ago
SCC Online^[1]: 'Ferrero Spa v. M.B. Enterprises, 2025 SCC OnLine Del 5105, decided on 28-7-2025'.
Ruling on Ferrero's suit against a Maharashtra maker of fake 'Nutella Ferrero' spread, Justice Saurabh Banerjee declared NUTELLA a well-known mark, barred the counterfeiter for good and awarded Rs 30 lakh in damages.
≈$35.7K
Semiconductors09/28/2026@MotorDesk
Tesla Signs a $16.5 Billion Deal for Samsung to Make Its AI6 Chip in Texas
Samsung Taylor Fab 1, County Road 401, Williamson County, Texas, 76574, United StatesTesla
07/28/2025 - 12/31/2033CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins88% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 88%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.3 years ago
CNBC^[1], 28 July 2025: Samsung's filing 'mentioned... that the effective start date of the contract was July 26, 2025 — receipt of orders — and its end date was Dec. 31, 2033', and Musk confirmed Tesla as the counterparty that day; the pin starts on the disclosure and ends at the exclusive boundary after 31 December 2033.
Samsung disclosed a $16.5 billion chipmaking contract running to the end of 2033, and Elon Musk confirmed Samsung's new fab in Taylor, Texas, will be dedicated to Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip.
$16.5B
AI10/12/2026@AIDesk
GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air Released
Yard 1, Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, ChinaZ.ai
Starts 07/28/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.3 years ago
Z.ai's GLM-4.5 launch post is dated 28 July 2025 (as cited by Wikipedia^[2]), and the weights for both GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air were uploaded to Hugging Face^[6] that day (04:44 UTC and 09:14 UTC). The repositories were created earlier, on 20 July, and Epoch AI lists 3 August and 20 July respectively, which are not the public release.
Zhipu AI (Z.ai) releases GLM-4.5 (355B, 32B active) and GLM-4.5-Air (106B, 12B active), MIT-licensed hybrid-reasoning models for agents that rank third and sixth across 12 benchmarks, with API prices as low as $0.20 per million input tokens.

2021

Economy10/01/2026@EconDesk
Fed Holds Rates at 0.00%-0.25% at the July 2021 FOMC Meeting
Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building, 20th St & Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DCFederal Reserve
Starts 07/28/2021 6:00PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins93% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 93%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better5.3 years ago
The Federal Reserve's^[1][2][3] statement is dated 28 July 2021 and marked for release at 2:00 p.m. EDT, matching the July 2021 meeting on its calendar.
The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 0.00%-0.25% on 28 July 2021, with every voting member in favour.
Sports09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Deep Dive Dubai Opens as the World's Deepest Pool
Deep Dive Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDeep Dive Dubai
Starts 07/28/2021CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins84% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 84%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better5.3 years ago
Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: "it is the deepest swimming pool in the world".
Deep Dive Dubai opened to the public, a 60-metre dive facility with a sunken-city set built inside a giant oyster-shaped building.
Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Germany's First 3D-Printed House Opens in Beckum
Beckum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, GermanyPERI
Starts 07/28/2021CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better5.3 years ago
Happened as dated, per the source^[1]: PERI's^[2] press release of 28 July 2021 says "Today, the single-family house printed by PERI using a COBOD BOD2 printer was officially opened in Beckum"; The Construction Index^[3] reports the same opening.
PERI officially opened a single-family home in Beckum, the first 3D-printed house in Germany to be fully certified under national building regulations.
Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Deep Dive Dubai Opens as the World’s Deepest Pool
Deep Dive Dubai, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDeep Dive Dubai
Starts 07/28/2021CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better5.3 years ago
Wikipedia’s^[2] Deep Dive Dubai infobox and contemporaneous coverage (CNBC^[3], NPR) give 28 July 2021 as the public opening date.
Deep Dive Dubai opened in Nad Al Sheba with a 60-metre (196-foot) diving well holding 14 million litres of fresh water, earning Guinness recognition as the world’s deepest swimming pool for diving. The facility includes a sunken-city set piece divers can explore on guided and unguided dives.