Today’s Highlight

On July 28, 1945, A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, the world’s tallest structure at the time, killing 14 people.

On this date

1794: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just were executed by guillotine during the French Revolution.

1914: World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he was increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.

1976: An earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate.

1984: The Los Angeles Summer Olympics opened; 14 Eastern Bloc countries, led by the Soviet Union, boycotted the Games.

2004: The Irish Republican Army formally announced an end to their armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.

2018: Pope Francis accepted the resignation of U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the emeritus archbishop of Washington, D.C., following allegations of sexual abuse, including one involving an 11-year-old boy.

Today’s birthdays

Former Sen. and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Bradley is 81. “Garfield” creator Jim Davis is 79. TV producer Dick Ebersol is 77. Actor Sally Struthers is 77. CBS TV journalist Scott Pelley is 67. UFC President Dana White is 55. Basketball Hall of Famer Manu Ginobili is 47.