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1. On July 28, 1976, the deadliest earthquake in modern history hit the industrial city of Tangshan. Because the earthquake struck early in the morning, most of the city's residents were trapped under the collapsed buildings, causing at least 250,000 deaths in what Asian country?
2. The United States Senate approved a charter on July 28, 1945 to create what world organization that would be a confrontation point for the world's problems in the future?
3. On July 28, 1943, which German city suffered its worst British bombing raid since the beginning of the war, basically setting the city on fire and killing more than 40,000 German civilians?
4. Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin eloped on July 28, even though Shelley was still currently married, in what decade?
5. On this day in 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood made a third attempt to break through General William T. Sherman's capture of Atlanta. What battle was this, a sounding Union victory with 3,000 Confederates dead?
6. On July 28, 1998, AOL was virtually shut down because of a massive spam campaign that clogged the system. Over 2.5 millions messages were returned to what sender, one of the largest Internet providers other than AOL?
7. The first underwater telegraph cable was laid on this day in what decade which established transatlantic telegraph communication for the first time?
8. Elvis had his second Number One Billboard single on this day in 1956 with what song?
9. True or false: On July 28, 1841, the Whig party's proposition of a Fiscal Bank Bill was passed aiming to stop, or at least to delay, the creation of a National Bank of the United States.
10. What amendment, guaranteeing freed slaves their US citzenship, was adopted on this day in 1868?
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