Associated Press

On July 28, 1914, World War I began as Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

In 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.

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

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

In 1996, 8,000 year-old human skeletal remains were discovered in a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington.

In 2015, it was announced that Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. Naval intelligence analyst who had spent nearly three decades in prison for spying for Israel, had been granted parole.