Fewer and fewer people have an appetite for the world's most popular fast food, McDonalds

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.

1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, the first in the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings by SA-born author JRR Tolkien is published.

1956 French diving pioneer and co-developer of the aqualung, Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso anchors in 7 500m of water – a world record.

1988 The government bans the anti-apartheid film Cry Freedom. Starring Denzil Washington, it tells of the friendship between Struggle hero Steve Biko and newspaper editor Donald Woods, who escaped house arrest so that he could tell how Biko really died, something the government didn’t want the world to know.

2013 Diamonds worth €103 million are stolen from a hotel, in Cannes, France.

2019 A riot leaves 16 prisoners decapitated in a battle between factions in a prison in Para state, Brazil. Smoke inhalation kills another 46.

2021 South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker sets a new women’s 200m breaststroke world record of 2:18.95 at the Tokyo Olympics.

2023 A pair of tiny roundworms are revived after being frozen for 45 000 years in the Siberian permafrost.

2023 A 1978 Toyota Landcruiser named ‘Mud Crab” drives 7km underwater at a depth of 10m across Australian’s Darwin harbour.

2023 Infamous lunch in Leongatha, Australia, that results in three deaths through suspected mushroom poisoning. Cook Erin Patterson is later arrested for murder.

2024 Fast-food chain McDonald’s reports a fall in sales worldwide for the first time since 2020 as higher prices affect demand.

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