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Today in History – July 28 in History
What happened on this day in history – July 28 in History around the world
| 1540 | Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard; Thomas Cromwell is beheaded on Tower Hill in England. | |
| 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-Philippe 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. | |
| 1988 | Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for the first time in 21 years. | |
| 1990 | A fire at an electrical substation causes a blackout in Chicago. Some 40,000 people were without power for up to three days. | |
| 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. | |
| 2005 | Irish Republican Army (IRA) announces an end to its 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
