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July 28: Robespierre Guillotined, Austria-Hungary Triggers WWI and Gomorrah Burns Hamburg

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July 28, 2020

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1794  French Revolutionary figure Maximilien Robespierre and 22 other leaders of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris

1914  Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of WWI

1917  Silent Parade organised by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000 African-Americans who march on 5th Ave in NYC to protest against lynching

1943  Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians

1976  Tangshan Earthquake, 8.2 in magnitude kills over 240,000 Northern China in the largest loss of life from an earthquake in the 20th century

2005  The Provisional Irish Republican Army call an end to their thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland

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