July 28: A Day of Constitutional Milestones, Notable Births, and Protests

July 28 marks significant historical events, including the certification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, the birth of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis in 1929, and the 1932 confrontation involving the "Bonus Army".

On July 28, 1868, Secretary of State William Seward officially certified the Fourteenth Amendment as part of the U.S. Constitution. Decades later, on the same date in 1932, the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans, protesting for immediate pension payments in Washington D.C., faced Federal troops.

Additionally, July 28, 1929, saw the birth of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who would become one of America's most prominent first ladies.