Today in History: Monday, July 28, 2014

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Today is Monday, July 28, the 209th day of 2014. There are 156 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 28, 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
On this date:
In 1540, King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his
fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
In 1794, Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.

In 1932, federal troops forcibly dispersed the so-called "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans
who had gathered in Washington to demand payments they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.
In 1945, a U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14
people. The U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South
Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 "almost immediately."

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