History for July 28

History for July 28 - On-This-Day.com
Beatrix Potter 1866, Rudy Vallee 1901, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929


Darryl Hickman 1931, Jim Davis 1945, Sally Struthers 1948


1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment guaranteed due process of law.


1914 - World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.


1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building. 14 people were killed and 26 were injured.


1951 - The Walt Disney film "Alice in Wonderland" was released.


1973 - Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett were married.


1982 - San Francisco, CA, became the first city in the U.S. to ban handguns.


1998 - Bell Atlantic and GTE announced $52 billion deal that created the second-largest phone company.


1998 - Monica Lewinsky received blanket immunity from prosecution to testify before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton.