29-07-2025
Fewer and fewer people have an appetite for the world's most popular fast food, McDonalds
DESIRE: McDonalds Fewer and fewer people have an appetite for the world's most popular fast food.
On this day, July 28
1715 All 11 galleons of a Spanish treasure fleet sink off Florida during a hurricane. According to Cuban records, many ships, including pirates, took part in the initial salvage.
1848 Ireland's Tipperary Revolt – an uprising against British rule – is put down.
1907 In England, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who fought at Mafikeng, forms the Boy Scouts.
1907 The Orient, loaded with wheat, runs aground at East London. A popular beach is named after the wreck site.
1945 Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, the Xhosa poet, dies near King William's Town. His first collection of poems, Imihobe nemiBongo (1927) includes Nkosi sikelel' iAfrica.
1949 Moscow ends the Berlin Blockade.
