History for July 28

History for July 28 - On-This-Day.com
Beatrix Potter 1866, Joe E. Brown 1891, Rudy Vallee 1901 


Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929, Darryl Hickman 1931, Sally Struthers 1948 


1866 - The metric system was legalized by the U.S. Congress for the standardization of weights and measures throughout the United States. 


1868 - The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect. The amendment guaranteed due process of law. 


1914 - World War I officially began when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. 


1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City's Empire State Building. 14 people were killed and 26 were injured. 


1951 - The Walt Disney film "Alice in Wonderland" was released. 


1973 - Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett were married. 


1982 - San Francisco, CA, became the first city in the U.S. to ban handguns. 


1998 - Bell Atlantic and GTE announced $52 billion deal that created the second-largest phone company. 


1998 - Monica Lewinsky received blanket immunity from prosecution to testify before a grand jury about her relationship with U.S. President Clinton. 


2000 - Kathie Lee Gifford made her final appearance as co-host of the ABC talk show "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee."