Updated July 27, 2014, 11:00 pm
On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. World War I began as declarations of war by other European nations quickly followed.
On July 28, 1929, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the American first lady noted for her style and elegance, was born. Following her death on May 19, 1994, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
| 1750 | Composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, at age 65. |
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| 1794 | Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine. |
| 1821 | Peru declared its independence from Spain. |
| 1868 | The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process and the equal protection of the laws to former slaves, was declared in effect. |
| 1896 | The city of Miami, Fla., was incorporated. |
| 1929 | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, first lady from 1961 to 1963, was born in Southampton, N.Y. |
| 1945 | A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building, killing 14 people. |
| 1965 | President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. |
| 1998 | Bell Atlantic and GTE announced a $52 billion merger that created Verizon. |
| 2002 | Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pa., were rescued after 77 hours underground. |
| 2004 | The Democratic National Convention in Boston nominated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for president. |
| 2005 | The Irish Republican Army renounced the use of violence against British rule in Northern Ireland and said it would disarm. |
| 2009 | The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. |
Historic Birthdays
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
7/28/1929 - 5/19/1994
American first lady (1961-3).Go to obituary »
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Jacopo Sannazzaro 7/28/1456 - 4/24/1530 Italian poet |
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Judith Leyster 7/28/1609 - 2/10/1660 Dutch painter |
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Beatrix Potter 7/28/1866 - 12/22/1943 English author of children's books |
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Charles Dillon Perrine 7/28/1867 - 6/21/1951 American astronomer |
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Lucy Burns 7/28/1879 - 12/22/1966 American woman suffragist |
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Marcel Duchamp 7/28/1887 - 10/2/1968 French-born American painter |
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Harry Bridges 7/28/1901 - 3/30/1990 Australian-born American labor leader |
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Rudy Vallee 7/28/1901 - 7/3/1986 American singer and bandleader |
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Earl Tupper 7/28/1907 - 10/5/1983 American inventor of Tupperware plastic containers |
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Malcolm Lowry 7/28/1909 - 6/27/1957 English novelist, short story writer and poet |