On This Day:
Monday July 28, 2014 This is the 209th day of the year, with 156 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: bread The first bread made in Neolithic times about 12,000 years ago - with laid on heated stones and baked by covering with hot ashes. The ancient Egyptians figured out that fermenting a dough creates a lighter, expanded bread and also developing the baking oven.
Holidays Feast day of Saints Nazarius and Celsus, St. Botvid, and St. Samson of Dol.
Peru: Independence Day.
Events 1540 - King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
1615 - French explorer Samuel de Champlain discovered Lake Huron on his seventh voyage to the New World.
1821 - Peru declared its independence from Spain.
1858 - Fingerprints were first used as a means of identification by William Herschel, who later established a fingerprint register.
1868 - The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, guaranteeing due process of law and African-Americans citizenship and all its privileges, went into effect.
1896 - The city of Miami, Florida, was incorporated.
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, beginning World War I.
1932 - Federal troops forcibly dispersed the so-called"Bonus Army" of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand money they weren't scheduled to receive until 1945.
1933 - The first singing telegram was delivered, to singer Rudy Vallee on his 32nd birthday.
1945 - A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
1976 - An earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale leveled Tangshan, China, killing nearly a quarter million people; it was the worst earthquake in modern history.
1998 - Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. announced a deal to create the second-biggest telephone company. The resulting mega-corporation was later to be named Verizon Communications.
Births 1866 - Beatrix Potter, British author of children's stories.
1901 - Rudy Vallee, American singer.
1929 - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, first lady of the U.S. (1961-1963), editor.
1938 - Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru.
1943 - Richard Wright English pianist and keyboardist; best known for his long career with Pink Floyd.
1945 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Garfield.
1954 - Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela.
Deaths 1655 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist and satirist.
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer.
1934 - Marie Dressler (born Leila Marie Koerber), Canadian actress.
1939 - William Mayo, a physician in the United States and one the founders of the Mayo Clinic.
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