YEARS AGO FOR JULY 28

Today is Friday, July 28, the 209th day of 2017. There are 156 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1914: World War I begins as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

1932: Federal troops forcibly disperse the so-called “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington to demand payments they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945.

1945: A U.S. Army B-25 bomber flying in heavy fog crashes into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, killing all three people in the plane and 11 people in the building.

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he is increasing the number of American troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000 “almost immediately.”

1976: An earthquake devastates northern China, killing at least 242,000 people.

2002: Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset, Pa., are rescued after 77 hours underground.

2007: Vice President Dick Cheney, with a history of heart problems, has surgery to replace an implanted device that was monitoring his heartbeat.

2016: Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Philadelphia.

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1992: U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. says evidence he has received through the Freedom of Information Act shows that John Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland autoworker, was not Ivan the Terrible, a sadistic Nazi guard at the Treblinka concentration camp in Poland.

A $3 million pollution-control device is being installed at General Electric’s Niles Mahoning Glass plant, replacing aging equipment that was making it difficult to meet clean-air standards.

1977: Fred DeLuca, manager of Youngstown Municipal Airport, says Trumbull County Sanitary Engineer George Libertin threatened to cut off water to the airport after finding out the city tapped into the county system without telling the county after the airport’s well pumps failed.

Bruce Zoldan leads an effort to collect relief supplies for flood-stricken residents of Johnstown, Pa. A group of 24 Mahoning Valley residents delivers three semi-trailers filled with cleaning supplies, clothes, furniture and other goods.

Mahoning and Trumbull tavern owners say a new contract with Teamsters has resulted in beer deliveries not being unloaded to coolers, as has been past practice. They threaten to buy their beer out of town and deliver it themselves.

1967: Pfc. John C. Biondillo of Youngstown is killed in a mortar attack in Phoc Bien, Vietnam, five hours before he was to leave for “rest and relaxation” in Hawaii.

Youngstown University’s faculty salary average would increase from $9,160 to $12,900 if a $75 million appropriation is approved for Ohio’s state universities.

Edith J. Shrum and Lynda Palomba of Youngstown pass the state dental hygiene examination.

1942: The American Legion’s drive for old phonograph records that will be sold as scrap to purchase new records for servicemen gains momentum with the offer of 2 cents a record by Post No. 15.

Nearly 90 percent of America’s tin supply has been cut off by the war. Youngstown is one of 32 test cities nationwide chosen to begin a drive to collect tin cans.

About 150 district women have applied for the Women’s Auxiliary Corps.