Historical events that took place on the 28th
of July
1896: The US City of Miami was incorporated
1914: The World War I began when
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
1928: The 9th Olympic Games opened in
Amsterdam
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
announced the end of coffee rationing in the United States
1945: An Airplane crashed into the Empire
State Building
1962: 19 people were killed after a train
crashed in Steelton, Pennsylvania
1976: At least 242,000 people died as a
result of an earthquake in Tientsin-Tangshan, China
1980: Peru adopted its constitution
1984: The 23rd modern Olympic Games opened in
Los Angeles
1986: A Bomb blast left 25 dead in East
Beirut
2013: In Northern region, vigilante leader, Aliko Musa, and
his group stormed villages, to hunt Boko Haram members, but they retaliated
with big fire power. Five vigilantes and twenty civilians were killed.
2014: 2 separate blasts by 2 female suicide
bombers in Kano State, Nigeria left 3 dead and 13 others injured
2015: Barack Obama became the first United States
president to address the African Union, which includes 54 nations as members
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