Thursday, July 28, 2005
JULY 28th in History
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.
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.
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.
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