Historical Events for 28th July 2024

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1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1914 - Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of Word War I
1937 - Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
1944 - Adolf Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1973 - France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll, in the South Pacific
1977 - Roy Wilkins turns over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks
1989 - Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1992 - Groundbreaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
2013 - 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
2018 - Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with death toll at 5 having burnt 80,000 acres

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