On This Day for July 28 - Beginning of World War I, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is featured, and more

Created: 2020-07-28 10:03 Updated: 2020-07-28 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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July 28

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

German infantrymen operating a machine gun during World War I.

FEATURED EVENT

1914

Beginning of World War I

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2005: The Irish Republican Army announced that it had ended its armed campaign and instead would pursue only peaceful means to achieve its objectives.

1991: Spanish cyclist Miguel Indurain won his first of five consecutive Tour de France titles. [Sort fact from fiction in our Tour de France quiz.]

1976: An earthquake in the industrial city of Tangshan, China, killed more than 240,000 people. [Test your knowledge of natural disasters.]

Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront

1954: The classic film On the Waterfront—directed by Elia Kazan and featuring one of Marlon Brando's most iconic performances—was released in the United States. [ How much do you know about movies?]

1932: The first feature-length zombie film, White Zombie—inspired by the book and by a stage play called Zombie—was released in New York City; it starred Bela Lugosi. [ Take our film buff quiz.]

1868: The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—which granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the Civil War —entered into force. [Test your knowledge of amendments to the U.S. Constitution.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1929

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
American first lady

1954

Hugo Chávez
president of Venezuela

1887

Marcel Duchamp
French artist

1902

Karl Popper
British philosopher

1635

Robert Hooke
British scientist