Today In History: July 28
1609 β Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English ship Sea Venture en route to Virginia.
1868 β The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is passed, establishing African-American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 β The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1932 β U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
1942 β World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union. Under the order all those who retreat or otherwise leave their positions without
orders to do so were to be immediately executed.
1945 β A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1965 β Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
1996 β The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
2005 β The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
Born on July 28:
1746 β Thomas Heyward, Jr., American patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1809)
1866 β Beatrix Potter, English author (d. 1943)
1929 β Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
1945 β Jim Davis, American cartoonist (Garfield)
1954 β Hugo ChΓ‘vez, 52nd President of Venezuela
Today in Alaskan history:
1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill to provide protection for Ketchikan’s water supply by setting aside an 8,600 acre water supply reserve near the city.
1949 The Canadian Department of National Revenue established a cash deposit requirement of $342 for any Alaska Highway traveller using a car built before 1940. This was to eliminate abandonment of old cars along the highway.
1977 At 11:02 p.m., the first oil from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields reached Valdez, after travelling the 798 miles of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
