History Events on July 28

U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.

#Herbert_Hoover

The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.

#Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.

#Pulkovo_Aviation_Enterprise_Flight_9560

World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.

#Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II

Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.

#Isahaya,_Nagasaki

USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, is commissioned.

#USS_Constellation_(1854)

In the culmination of the July Crisis, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, igniting World War I.

#July_Crisis

Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.

#Airblue_Flight_202

The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.

#United_States_occupation_of_Haiti

Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified for lifetime by Supreme Court of Pakistan founding him guilty of corruption charges.

#Prime_Minister_of_Pakistan

Mahmud II became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.

#Mahmud_II

At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).

#Vinnie_Ream

First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

#Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress

Second Northern War: Battle of Warsaw begins.

#Second_Northern_War

Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.

#Thomas_Cromwell

French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.

#French_Revolution

José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.

#José_de_San_Martín

Australian Wendy Tuck becomes the first woman skipper to win the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.

#Wendy_Tuck

Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.

#Coal_mining

The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.

#Silent_Parade

While flying from Seoul, South Korea to Shanghai, China, Asiana Airlines Flight 991 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold. The Boeing 747-400F freighter attempts to divert to Jeju International Airport, but crashes into the sea South-West of Jeju island, killing both crew members on board.

#Seoul

In the Eighty Years' War the Spanish capture the strategic Dutch fortress of Schenkenschans.

#Eighty_Years'_War

The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.

#Sutton_Hoo_helmet

American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.

#American_Civil_War

Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.

#Hawaii_Clipper

La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomiendas (provinces) in the country.

#Encomienda

Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.

#Vietnam_War

The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.

#Miami

A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.

#North_American_B-25_Mitchell

World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227. In response to alarming German advances, all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without orders to do so are to be tried in a military court, with punishment ranging from duty in a shtrafbat battalion, imprisonment in a Gulag, or execution.

#World_War_II

Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship.

#Ian_Thorpe

The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.

#1976_Tangshan_earthquake

Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera: Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.

#Peninsular_War

Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.

#Republic_of_Pisa

The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.

The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.

The Summer Olympics officially known as the games of the XXIII were opened in Los Angeles.

Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.

Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: Nearly 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.

The German Volkswagen Act came into force.

Constitution of the province of Cantabria ratified at the Assembly Hall in Bárcena la Puente, Reocín, Spain.