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Today in History
July 28

1540   Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard.
1615   French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World.
1794   Robespierre is beheaded in France.
1808   Sultan Mustapha of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and his cousin Mahmud II gains the throne.
1835   King Louis Napoleon of France survives an assassination attempt.
1863   Confederate John Mosby begins a series of attacks against General Meade’s Army of the Potomac.
1868   The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States, is adopted.
1898   Spain, through the offices of the French embassy in Washington, D.C., requests peace terms in its war with the United States.
1914   Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I.
1920   Pancho Villa surrenders to the Mexican government.
1932   The Bonus Army of impoverished World War I veterans is violently pushed out of Washington, D.C.
1941   A Japanese army lands on the coast of Cochin, China (modern day Vietnam).
1945   A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 13 people.
1965   President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 50,000 troops to South Vietnam.

Born on July 28
1844   Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet and Jesuit priest.
1866   Beatrix Potter, children’s author (The Tale of Peter Rabbit).
1887   Marcel Duchamp, French artist.
1901   Harry Bridges, American labor leader.
1902   Kenneth Fearing, poet and novelist (The Big Clock).
1907   Earl Silas Tupper, founder of Tupperware.
1927   John Ashbery, Pultizer Prize-winning poet (Self-Portrait in a Convict’s Mirror).
1927   Baruch Blumberg, physician, medical researcher.
1929   Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, wife of President John F. Kennedy.
1943   Bill Bradley, basketball player, U.S. senator.

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