07-27-2010, 07:55 PM
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July 28th
1741 ~ Death of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Composer.
1750 ~ Death of Johann Sebastian Bach, German Composer.
1794 ~ Maximilien Robespierre, a leading figure of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.
1866 ~ Birthday of Beatrix Potter, English Author. (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)
1868 ~ The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed Congress, which integrated Due Process & Equal Protection into the constitution.
1904 ~ Birthday of Pavel Cherenkov, Soviet Physicist, awarded one third the Nobel Prize in Physics 1958.
1914 ~ World War I began as Austria declared war on Serbia.
1996 ~ The remains of a prehistoric man, Kennewick Man, was discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
1998 ~ Monica Lewinsky was given blanket immunity from prosecution in exchange for grand jury testimony in the investigation of her relationship with President Bill Clinton.
2004 ~ Death of Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS, awarded one third the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962.
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