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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.

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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.

Citazione del giorno : 28 Luglio

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

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Fabre d'Églantine, Scrittore e politico francese (1750)
Beatrix Potter, Scrittrice inglese (1866)
Lucy Burns, Difensore americana dei diritti delle donne (1879)
Earl Tupper, Inventore di Tupperware (1907)
Charles Townes, Fisico americano, premio Nobel (1915)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Moglie di Kennedy e Onassis (1929)
Jean Roba, Autore di fumetti belgo (Boule et Bill) (1930)
Francis Veber, Regista francese (1937)
Richard Wright, Musicista inglese (Pink Floyd) (1943)
Jim Davis, Autore di fumetti americano (Garfield) (1945)
Randall Wallace, Sceneggiatore americano (1949)
Bruce Abbott, Attore americano (1954)
Hugo Chávez, Presidente del Venezuela (1954)
Steve Morse, Chitarrista americano (Dixie Dregs, Deep Purple) (1954)
Lori Loughlin, Attrice americana (1964)
Isabelle Brasseur, Pattinatore canadese (1970)
Elizabeth Berkley, Attrice americana (1972)
Hannah Lochner, Attrice canadese (1993)

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Thomas Cromwell, Uomo politico inglese (1540)
Cyrano de Bergerac, Poeta francese (1655)
Antonio Vivaldi, Compositore italiano (1741)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Compositore tedesco (1750)
Maximilien Robespierre, Rivoluzionario francese (1794)
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, Rivoluzionario francese (1794)
Gaspard Monge, Matematico francese (1818)
Joseph Bonaparte, Re di Napoli, Sicilia, poi Spagna (1844)
Flinders Petrie, Egittologo inglese (1942)
Otto Hahn, Chimico tedesco, premio Nobel (1968)
Michel Audiard, Scrittore e sceneggiatore francese (1985)
Archer John Porter Martin, Chimico inglese, premio Nobel (2002)
Tiziano Terzani, Giornalista italiano (2004)
Francis Crick, Biologo molecolare inglese, Premio Nobel per la Fisiologia o Medicina (2004)
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