eso ha pasado un 28 Jullo

1914 : Beginning of World War I


On July 28, 1914, one month after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. The ally of Serbia, Russia, mobilized, which did not please the ally of Austria-Hungary, Germany, which declared war to Russia on August 1. Seeing this, the ally of Russia, France, mobilized and Germany and France declared war on each other on Aug. 3. Germany decided to invade Belgium, which nevertheless had remained neutral. This did not please England which declared war on Germany. As for Italy and the United States, at this point, they decided to remain neutral.

1945 : A plane crashed into the Empire State Building


On July 28, 1945, a military aircraft flying over Manhattan in thick fog strucked the Empire State Building at the 79th floor. The three people aboard and 11 people in the building were killed.

1965 : Johnson announced sending more troops to Vietnam


On July 28, 1965, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would send 50,000 additional troops to Vietnam to reach the number of 125,000. He had the support of the Congress and could intensify the war at his convenience.

1976 : Huge earthquake in China


On July 28, 1976, an earthquake of magnitude between 7.8 and 8.2 on the Richter scale hit the city of Tangshan in China. The quake occurred in the middle of the night; therfore most people were asleep, which increased the number of victims. Officially, more than 242,000 people were killed. China was not prepared, at this time, for a disaster of this magnitude. Relief took almost a week to reach the stricken city. In addition, China had refused any outside help.

2005 : The IRA announced the end of armed struggle


On July 28, 2005, the IRA, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, announced its decision to end the armed struggle, after more than 30 years of violence. The Council of the IRA called its members to drop their arms and participate to the development of democratic programs in a peaceful manner.

Actualidad del día : 28 Jullo

Commemoration of the Great Upheaval in Canada
On July 28, we commemorates the Great Upheaval or deportation of the Acadians in Canada. The mass deportation of the Francophone population of part of Acadia ceded to the English (Nova Scotia) was held in 1755 in order to recover the land for the English newcomers. Half of French Acadian deportees died of deprivation and abuse in the years that followed.
National Day in Peru
July 28 is the national holiday in Perou which commemorates its independence gained against Spain in 1821.

Cita del día : 28 Jullo

Lyndon B. Johnson
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Cumpleaños : 28 Jullo

Fabre d'Églantine, Político y escritor francés (1750)
Beatrix Potter, Escritora inglesa (1866)
Lucy Burns, Defensora de los derechos de las mujeres estadounidense (1879)
Earl Tupper, Inventor de Tupperware (1907)
Charles Townes, Físico americano, Premio Nobel (1915)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Esposa de Kennedy y Onassis (1929)
Jean Roba, Dibujante belgo (Boule et Bill) (1930)
Francis Veber, Director de cine francés (1937)
Richard Wright, Músico inglés (Pink Floyd) (1943)
Jim Davis, Dibujante estadounidense (Garfield) (1945)
Randall Wallace, Guionista americano (1949)
Bruce Abbott, Actor americano (1954)
Hugo Chávez, Presidente de Venezuela (1954)
Steve Morse, Guitarrista estadounidense (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple) (1954)
Lori Loughlin, Actriz americana (1964)
Isabelle Brasseur, Patinadora artística canadiense (1970)
Elizabeth Berkley, Actriz americana (1972)
Hannah Lochner, Actriz canadiense (1993)

Nos han dejado un 28 Jullo

Thomas Cromwell, Político inglés (1540)
Cyrano de Bergerac, Poeta francés (1655)
Antonio Vivaldi, Compositor italiano (1741)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Compositor alemán (1750)
Maximilien Robespierre, Figura líder de la Revolución Francesa (1794)
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Figura líder de la Revolución Francesa (1794)
Gaspard Monge, Matemático francés (1818)
Joseph Bonaparte, Rey de Nápoles, Sicilia, y España (1844)
Flinders Petrie, Egiptólogo inglés (1942)
Otto Hahn, Químico alemán, premio Nobel (1968)
Michel Audiard, Escritor y guionista francés (1985)
Archer John Porter Martin, Químico Inglés, Premio Nobel (2002)
Tiziano Terzani, Periodista italiano (2004)
Francis Crick, Biólogo molecular inglés, Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina (2004)
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