Today is Sunday, July 28, the 210th day of 2024. There are 156 days left in the year. On July 28, 1945, A U.
S. Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, the world’s tallest structure at the time, killing 14 people. In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just were executed by guillotine during the French Revolution.
Related Articles National News | Today in History: July 27, Korean War hostilities end National News | Today in History: July 26, Americans with Disabilities Act signed into law National News | Today in History: July 25, Tuskegee Syphilis Study exposed National News | Today in History: July 24, Apollo 11 returns home from the moon National News | Today in History: July 23, the 1967 Detroit riot begins In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
In 1976, an earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate. In 1984, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics opened; 14 Eastern Bloc countries, led by the Soviet Union, boycotted the Games. In 1995, a jury in Union, South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her to life in prison for drowning her two young sons (Smith will be eligible for parole in November 2024).
In 1996, 8,000 year-old human skeletal remains (later referred .