July 28th 2014 - This Date in History.

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1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1571 – La Laguna encomienda, known today as the Laguna province in the Philippines is founded by the Spaniards as one of the oldest encomienda/province in the country.
1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France.
1809 – Peninsular War: Battle of Talavera – Sir Arthur Wellesley's British, Portuguese and Spanish army defeats a French force led by Joseph Bonaparte.
1821 – José de San Martín declares the independence of Peru from Spain.
1854 – USS Constellation (1854), the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, is commissioned.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church – Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
1866 – At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream becomes the first and youngest female artist to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue (of Abraham Lincoln).
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 – The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
1914 – World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
1932 – 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.
1933 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1938 – Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
1942 – 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 are to be immediately executed.
1943 – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians.
1945 – A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26.
1948 – The Metropolitan Police Flying Squad foils a bullion robbery in the "Battle of London Airport".
1955 – The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
1965 – 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.
1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.
1974 – Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
1976 – The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
1993 – Andorra joins the United Nations.
1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
2001 – Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.
2002 – Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
2005 – Tornadoes touch down in residential areas in south Birmingham and Coventry, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.
2008 – The historic Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burns down for the second time in 80 years.
2010 – Airblue Flight 202 crashes into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, killing all 152 people aboard. It is the deadliest aviation accident in Pakistan history and the first involving an Airbus A321.

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Today's Canadian Headline....

1914 CANADA AUTOMATICALLY AT WAR
London England - Britain declares war on Germany and Austro-Hungary after Austria declares war on Serbia, beginning the First World War; Britain's declaration automatically includes Canada, as part of the British Empire.

1930
Canada -
Richard Bedford (R. B.) Bennett 1870-1947 wins 17th Canadian general election 137 seats to 91 Liberals; 12 Progressive; United farmers 10, 5 other; defeats WLM King with 48.8% of popular vote; Agnes MacPhail the only woman elected.



In Other Events....

1996 Atlanta Georgia - Canadian rowers win medals at Lake Lanier: Dave Boyes, Jeff Lay, Gavin Hassett and Brian Peaker take Olympic silver in the men's four; Marnie McBean, Kathleen Heddle, Laryssa Biesenthal and Diane O'Grady come away with bronze in the women's four; Emma Robinson, Anna van der Kamp, Theresa Luke, Tosha Tsang, Alison Korn, Heather McDermid, Maria Maunder, Jessica Monroe and Lesley Thompson have a silver-medal performance in the women's eight with coxswain.
1996 Atlanta Georgia - Canadian Brian Walton wins Olympic silver in the cycling points race; Curt Harnett earns the bronze medal in the men's sprint on the track near Stone Mountain; Canada's men's doubles team of John Child and Mark Heese take the bronze at the inaugural Olympic beach volleyball tournament.
1994 Ottawa Ontario - Supreme Court of Canada refuses appeal of lower court ruling awarding the NHL oldtimers estimated $45 million from the League in surplus pension funds.
1994 Barrie Ontario - Crowd of 35,000 people attend the first Lollapalooza festival in Molson Park, featuring Smashing Pumpkins, the Beastie Boys and George Clinton; rain turns the park into a sea of mud.
1993 Havre-St-Pierre, Quebec - Plane crash kills five at Havre-St-Pierre.
1991 Montreal Quebec - Expos' Dennis Martinez pitches 15th perfect game in major league history (96 pitches, 66 strikes); as the Expos shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0.
1989 Springhill, Nova Scotia - Anne Murray returns to her home town of Springhill to open the Anne Murray Centre, a museum devoted to her career that officials hope will attract up to 90,000 visitors a year; Murray first hit the charts in 1970 with her ballad Snowbird.
1988 Ottawa Ontario - The House of Commons in a free vote turns down a government resolution and five amendments on an abortion bill.
1984 Los Angeles California - Canadians attend opening of 23rd Olympiad; Los Angeles Olympics boycotted by 15 Russian and Eastern countries, who stayed away in a Soviet-led withdrawal in response to Western boycott of the Moscow games
1984 Montreal Quebec - Expos' Pete Rose passes Ty Cobb for the most singles in a career with #3,503 against the Philadelphia Phillies.
1982 Canada - Last issue of Today magazine, distributed in 18 Canadian newspapers.
1981 Saint John New Brunswick - St. Paul's Anglican Church in Saint John destroyed by fire; built in 1871.
1981 Calgary Alberta - Hailstorm lasting 15 minutes pounds Calgary and vicinity, causing $100 million in damage.
1979 Toronto Ontario - Grade A egg dropped from the CN Tower observation deck lands unbroken in a net; cushioned by shaving cream and cotton.
1973 Watkins Glen, New York - Canadian group The Band performs before 600,000 fans at the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, along with the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band; biggest rock festival since Woodstock four years earlier.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Senate Banking Committee recommends charters for Bank of Western Canada and Laurentide Bank.
1964 Ottawa Ontario - Parliament passes Canada Student Loans Act providing interest-free loans to university students through the banks.
1955 Ottawa Ontario - Hartland Molson appointed to the Senate.
1954 Vietnam - Canada agrees to serve with India and Poland on special commission to supervise Indo-China armistice.
1950 Ottawa Ontario - Dominion Bureau of Statistics says Canada has 13,845,000 inhabitants.
1948 Quebec - Maurice Duplessis reelected as Premier of Quebec, as his Union Nationale Party wins 82 seats, against 7 for the Liberals.
1945 Niagara Falls, Ontario - Section of Prospect Point overlooking the US Falls breaks off and slides into the Niagara River Gorge.
1943 Agira Italy - Canadians take the town of Agira after five days of hard fighting at heavy cost against heavily dug in German troops.
1934 Los Angeles California - Marie Dressler dies at age 64; vaudeville and film star known for her Tugboat Annie role, born Leila Marie Koerber in Cobourg, Ontario.
1914 Alberta - A.W. Dingman gives Governor General the Duke of Connaught and Lady Connaught a tour of his oil discovery in southern Alberta, lighting a 40 foot jet of gasoline from the well.
1914 Ontario/Quebec - Toronto and Montreal stock exchanges close for three months; brokers fear financial panic due to war; in concert with New York; shut down till Spring of 1915.
1897 Ottawa Ontario - Canada imposes new 2% royalty on minerals from Canadian mines; primarily a tax on Klondike gold to pay for law enforcement.
1891 Toronto Ontario - First annual Harvest Excursion leaves for Western Canada with 1,300 farm workers.
1890 Trois-Rivières Quebec - First electric street lighting in Trois-Rivières.
1883 Alberta - CPR sets track laying record: 10.9 km in one day.
1863 London England - Imperial Statute defines boundaries of British Columbia.
1858 Canada - John A. Macdonald & George-Etienne Cartier resign after defeat on motion that Ottawa should not be the capital of Canada; they resign the next day.
1847 Montreal Quebec - Several new businesses incorporated in Lower Canada - the Montreal Mining Company, the British North America Company, the British & Canadian Mining Company of Lake Superior, the St. Lawrence & Industry Railroad, and the Canada, Nova Scotia & New Brunswick Railroad.
1847 London, Ontario - London incorporated as a city.
1847 Brantford Ontario - Brantford incorporated as a city.
1839 NWT - Simpson & Dease round Cape Alexander and find Simpson Strait separating King William Island from mainland; explore NE of Cape John Ross to Castor & Pollux River, named after ship.
1838 Hamilton Bermuda - Eight exiled Lower Canada Patriotes arrive in Bermuda.
1824 Quebec Quebec - Ile d'Orléans shipyard launches the steamboat 'Columbus'.
1819 Halifax, Nova Scotia - Son of Nova Scotia Attorney-General John Uniacke goes on trial for murder after duel In Halifax.
1812 Toronto Ontario - Isaac Brock asks sixth Parliament of Upper Canada to repeal Habeas Corpus and impose martial law; Legislature uncooperative; doesn't take threat of US invasion seriously.
1786 Montreal Quebec - John Molson proclaims that 'good ale is all I want;' says he wants to brew beer 'on the grand stage of the world.'.
1755 Halifax Nova Scotia - Charles Lawrence gets approval of Council to deport those Acadians who refuse to take oath of allegiance.
1642 Montreal Quebec - Priest baptizes a 4 year old Algonquin boy.
1633 Quebec Quebec - Flotilla of 140 Huron canoes arrives at Quebec.
1615 French River Ontario - Samuel de Champlain discovers Lake Huron.

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