more events on July 28
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2005
Britain experiences its most costly tornado to date, causing 40 million Sterling Pounds of damage to Birmingham in just four minutes. There were no fatalities.
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The Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces an end to its 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
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1996
Discovery of remains of a prehistoric man near Kennewick, Washington, casts doubts on accepted beliefs of when, how and where the Americas were populated.
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1990
A fire at an electrical substation causes a blackout in Chicago. Some 40,000 people were without power for up to three days.
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1988
Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for the first time in 21 years.
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1965
President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 50,000 troops to South Vietnam.
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1945
A B-25 bomber crashes into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 13 people.
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1943
Bill Bradley, basketball player, U.S. senator.
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1941
A Japanese army lands on the coast of Cochin, China (modern day Vietnam).
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1932
The Bonus Army of impoverished World War I veterans is violently pushed out of Washington, D.C.
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1929
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, wife of President John F. Kennedy.
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1927
Baruch Blumberg, physician, medical researcher.
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John Ashbery, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Self-Portrait in a Convict’s Mirror).
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1920
Pancho Villa surrenders to the Mexican government.
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1914
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I.
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1907
Earl Silas Tupper, founder of Tupperware.
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1902
Kenneth Fearing, poet and novelist (The Big Clock).
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1901
Harry Bridges, American labor leader.
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1898
Spain, through the offices of the French embassy in Washington, D.C., requests peace terms in its war with the United States.
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1887
Marcel Duchamp, French artist.
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1868
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship to all those born or naturalized in the United States, is adopted.
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1866
Beatrix Potter, children’s author (The Tale of Peter Rabbit).
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1863
Confederate John Mosby begins a series of attacks against General George Meade‘s Army of the Potomac.
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1844
Gerard Manley Hopkins, English poet and Jesuit priest.
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1835
King Louis-Philippe of France survives an assassination attempt.
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1808
Sultan Mustafa of the Ottoman Empire is deposed and his cousin Mahmud II gains the throne.
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1794
Robespierre is beheaded in France.
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1615
French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World.
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1540
Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard; Thomas Cromwell is beheaded on Tower Hill in England.