Today is Wednesday, July 28, the 209th day of 2010. There are 156 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On July 28, 1945, a U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
ON THIS DATE
In 1540, King Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
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.”
In 2002, nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pa., were rescued after 77 hours underground.
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