In 1972 its Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Long Beach Auditorium!!! (would see them four more times over the next 5 years) In 1978 U.K. at the Santa Monica Civic!!! July 28: In 1540 Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason and Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day (Tudors!); in 1794 Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France; in 1854 USS Constellation (the second U.S. Navy ship with that name) the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy, is commissioned; in 1868 the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law; in 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; in 1935 the first flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress; in 1943 the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians; in 1945 a U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 and injuring 26; in 1996 the remains of a prehistoric man, known as Kennewick Man, are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Birthdays: English physicist Robert Hooke (1635); English author Beatrix Potter (1866); singer/actor Rudy Vallée (1901); Tupperware founder Earl Tupper (1907); 37th First Lady of the U.S. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929); Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright (1943); Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis (1945); actress Sally Struthers (1947); Free/Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke (1949); Dixie Dregs/Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse (1954). Music: In 1968 The Beatles hold an all-day group photography session across London, which produces most of their well-known latter-day photographs, including the cover of Life and the inside gatefold of their Beatles 1967-1970 album; in 1973 over 600,000 attend the Summer Jam at the racetrack in Watkins Glen, New York which features the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers, and The Band; in 1973 Grand Funk Railroad release Were An American Band.
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