Reuters historical calendar - July 28

London, July 27 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on July 28 since 1900: 1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia after the June 28 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. This led to further declarations of war, precipitating World War One.

1945 A B-25 bomber lost in clouds and fog slammed into the side of the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 14 people.

1968 Otto Hahn, German nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner, died.

1976 An earthquake levelled the city of Tangshan in China, causing the highest quake death toll in modern times - at least 242,000 killed and 164,000 injured.

1977 The first oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reached Valdez, Alaska.

1999 The European Court of Human Rights made France the first European state to be convicted of torture, finding it guilty of torturing a suspected drug dealer.

2000 U S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright held talks with North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun, the two countries' highest-level meeting since the Korean War.

2001 Alejandro Toledo took office as president of Peru; the country's first president of Andean Indian descent.

2004 The Democratic Party in the United States nominated Senator John Kerry to challenge President George W Bush for the White House.

2005 The Irish Republican Army guerrilla group formally announced an end to its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.

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