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This Day in History: July 28

The Senate Judiciary Committee approves Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the U.S. Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice

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This Day In History: July 28

Take a look at all of the important historical event that took place on July 28.

On this day, July 28 ...

2009: The Senate Judiciary Committee approves Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the U.S. Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice, over nearly solid Republican opposition.

Also on this day:

  • 1609: The English ship Sea Venture, commanded by Adm. Sir George Somers, runs ashore on Bermuda, where the passengers and crew founded a colony.

(AP, File)

  • 1914: World War I begins as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
  • 1915: More than 300 American sailors and Marines arrive in Haiti to restore order following the killing of Haitian President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam by rebels, beginning a 19-year U.S. occupation.
  • 1945: A U.S. Army bomber crashes into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing 14 people.
President Lyndon B. Johnson.

President Lyndon B. Johnson. (AP, File)

  • 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he's 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, according to an official estimate.
  • 1984: The Los Angeles Summer Olympics opens.
  • 2006: Mel Gibson goes into an anti-Semitic tirade as he is being arrested on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif., on suspicion of driving while drunk; Gibson would later apologize and be sentenced to probation and alcohol treatment.
  • 2017: The Senate votes 51-49 to reject Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's last-ditch effort to dismantle President Obama's health-care overhaul with a trimmed-down bill. John McCain, who was about to begin treatments for a brain tumor, joins two other GOP senators in voting against the repeal effort.
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  • 2017: British baby Charlie Gard dies, a week shy of his first birthday; his parents had fought for the right to take him to the United States for an experimental treatment for a rare genetic disease that left him brain-damaged.