Today is Sunday, July 28th, the 210th day of 2024. There are 156 days left this year.
Sunday History Highlights
On July 28, 1945, a U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, then the tallest building in the world, killing 14 people.[1945年7月28日、アメリカ陸軍のB-25爆撃機が当時世界で最も高い建築物であったニューヨークのエンパイアステートビルの79階に墜落し、14人が死亡した。
This day too
In 1794, during the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just were executed by guillotine.
In 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting the First World War.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced an increase in U.S. troop levels in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
In 1976, northern China was devastated by an earthquake that killed at least 242,000 people, according to official estimates.
In 1984, the Summer Olympics opened in Los Angeles, but 14 Eastern Bloc countries, led by the Soviet Union, boycotted the games.
In 1995, a jury in Union, South Carolina, vacated the death penalty sentence for Susan Smith for drowning her two young sons, instead giving her a life sentence (Smith will be eligible for parole in November 2024).
In 1996, the remains of an 8,000-year-old human skeleton (later dubbed Kennewick Man) were discovered on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington.
In 2004, the Irish Republican Army formally announced the end of its armed operations against British rule in Northern Ireland.
In 2015, it was announced that former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard, who had been imprisoned for nearly 30 years for espionage for Israel, had been released on parole.
In 2018, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., following allegations of sexual abuse involving boys as young as 11.
In 2019, a gunman opened fire at a popular garlic festival in Gilroy, California, killing three people, including a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, and wounding 17 others before taking his own life.
