July 28, 1868: Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly enslaved people—is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Secretary of State William Seward issues a proclamation certifying the amendment.
* In 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
* In 1929, future President John F. Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, is born into a prominent New York family.
* In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the end of coffee rationing, which had limited people to one pound of coffee every five weeks since it began in November 1942.
* In 1945, the U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2. An Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
* 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 1976, an earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate.
* In 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House, a movie spoof about 1960s college fraternities starring John Belushi, opens in U.S. theaters.
* In 1984, the Los Angeles Summer Olympics opened.
* In 2015, it was announced that Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. naval intelligence analyst who had spent nearly 30 years in prison for spying for Israel, had been granted parole.
* In 2016, Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Philadelphia. (History.com 07/28/23)
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