On This Day - July 28, A Shot of History

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1914 – Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and World War I begins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP_0DkpFOKs

2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty-year-long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Fj7M2R188

1540 – Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell#/media/File:Cromwell,Thomas%281EEssex%2901.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell#/media/File:Thomas_Cromwell,_portrait_miniature_wearing_garter_collar,_after_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkP2Z73Rm7w

1957 – Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance on Steve Allen Show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVi-9RLUWeI

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet