Monday, July 28, 2014

History for July 28

History for July 28 - On-This-Day.com:
100 years ago, World War I formally began. 
On this day in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on
Serbia
Previously, on June 28, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary had been assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.

Birth anniversaries of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (1929-94), Jacques Piccard (1922-2008)
The bathyscaphe Trieste


In 1943, Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, sparked the Hamburg Firestorm, which killed more than 42,000 people.

Happy Birthday! Jim Davis, Sally Struthers


1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment guaranteed due process of law. 


1896 - The city of Miami, FL, was incorporated. 

1914 - World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. 


1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building. 14 people were killed and 26 were injured. 



1973 - Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett were married. 


1982 - San Francisco, CA, became the first city in the U.S. to ban handguns. 

1998 - Bell Atlantic and GTE announced $52 billion deal that created the second-largest phone company.


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