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What happened on July 28 in American history
July 28 is the 209th day of the year (the 210th in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 6 stories from July 28 spanning 1866 to 1984. Among them: in 1866, Congress hands an 18-year-old the Lincoln commission; and in 1868, Seward certifies it: citizenship and equal protection enter the Constitution.
1866Member story · 1776 Club
Congress hands an 18-year-old the Lincoln commission
No sculptor has ever gotten a federal statue commission this young, and none has ever been a woman.
1868
Seward certifies it: citizenship and equal protection enter the Constitution
The amendment overturns Dred Scott and rewrites who counts as a citizen.
1938Member story · 1776 Club
The Hawaii Clipper reports rough air, then nothing; fifteen aboard are gone
Six days out of Alameda and one leg from Manila, Pan Am's flying boat leaves no wreckage and no signal.
1945
A bomber lost in fog tears into the Empire State Building; fourteen dead
The tower's steel frame holds, and an elevator operator falls seventy-five stories and lives.
1965
Johnson orders U.S. troops in Vietnam raised from 75,000 to 125,000
The advisory war becomes an American war, on Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's recommendation.
1984Member story · 1776 Club
Reagan opens the Los Angeles Games as 14 Eastern Bloc nations stay home
Romania breaks with Moscow to march in, and the Coliseum crowd stands up for them.
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