Today in history: On July 28, 1945, A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York’s Empire State Building, the world’s tallest structure at the time, killing 14 people.
Firemen search through the charred ruins near the gaping hole in the wall of an office on the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in New York, July 28, 1945, after an army B-25 bomber crashed into the world’s tallest building. Eleven persons in the office and three men aboard the plane were killed in the crash during heavy fog.
In 1976, an earthquake devastated northern China, killing at least 242,000 people, according to an official estimate. In 1995, a jury in Union, South Carolina, rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her to life in prison for drowning her two young sons . In 2004, the Irish Republican Army formally announced an end to their armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
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