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Today in History ~ June 28
Events1519 - Charles I of Spain, who by birth already held sway over much of Europe and Spanish America, was elected the successor of his late grandfather, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.
1778 - Battle of Monmouth, NJ ( Washington beats Clinton)
1778 - Mary Ludwig Hayes She gained her famous nickname, "Molly Pitcher". [H]
1820 - Robert Gibbon Johnson proved tomatoes were not poisonous.
1838 - Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
1861 - Leipzig Obs discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) comet d'Arrest
1862 - Confederates capture the St. Nicolas [H]
1863 - U.S. Major General George Meade replaces Joseph Hooker as head of the Army of the Potomac
1894 - Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
1914 - Austria invades Siberia (WW I Starts) following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in (what is now known as) Sarajevo, Bosnia. [H]
1918 - In Hawaii, the 1st inter-island flight.
1919 - Carl Mazes pitches a complete double-header against Yanks
1919 - Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
1919 - John Maynard Keynes warned that the war reparations imposed on Germany in the punitive agreement would cause worldwide economic havoc
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I, was signed.
1928 - New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith was nominated for president at the Democratic national convention in Houston.
1939 - Pan Am begins transatlantic air service Dixie Clipper
1939 - Yanks hit 13 HRs sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
1939 - Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service.
1942 - Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1951 - The "Amos 'n Andy" show made its TV debut on CBS. (While criticized for racial stereotyping, it was the first network TV series to feature an all-black cast.)
1956 - 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Il
1965 - 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson
1969 - Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered the birth of the gay rights movement.
1971 - Shoring up the constitutional separation between church and state, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of public funds for parochial schools was unconstitutional.
1972 - President Nixon announced that no more draftees would be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteered for service in the Asian nation
1977 - Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
1978 - The Supreme Court ordered the University of California at Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who'd argued he was a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
1982 - Prince Chuck & Lady Di name their baby "William"
1983 - Bridge section along I-95 in Conn collapsed kills 3
1984 - Israel and Syria exchanged prisoners for the first time in 10 years; 291 Syrian soldiers were traded for three Israelis.
1986 - Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
1987 - Don Baylor sets career hit by pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Roiden)
1987 - Gay Pride Day
1991 - In Detroit, a white woman was attacked by a group of black women at a downtown fireworks display in an incident captured on amateur video. (Five women later pleaded no contest to charges stemming from the assault.)
1991 - Two people were killed when an earthquake of magnitude 6 shook Southern California.
1991 - The Yugoslav army was deployed to Slovenia to take control of airports and border posts and to prevent the republic's declared independence.
1992 - Southern California was rocked by a pair of earthquakes that killed one person and injured 402.
1992 - French President Francois Mitterrand was cheered as he visited war-torn Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1996 - The Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
1997 - In a wild rematch, Evander Holyfield retained the WBA heavyweight boxing championship after his opponent, Mike Tyson, was disqualified for biting Holyfield's ear during the third round of their fight in Las Vegas.
2000 - Seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was returned to his native Cuba.
2000 - The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders.
2000 - The Supreme Court struck down Nebraska's so-called "partial-birth" abortion law.
2001 - A unanimous federal appeals court reversed the court-ordered breakup of Microsoft, but ruled that the software giant had violated antitrust laws, and appointed another judge to determine a new punishment.
2001 - Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was handed over by Serbia to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
Birthdays Today
1491 - England's King Henry VIII was born at Greenwich. Don't lose your head over him
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Elevation of the Cross, Coronation of Marie de Medicis, Circumcision)
1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, France, (philosopher/composer/social contractor (Confession) )
1824 - Paul Broca, French brain surgeon anthropologist
1867 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (6 Characters) (Nobel 1934)
1873 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon sociologist biologist (Nobel 1912)
1902 - Richard Rodgers (Academy Award-winning composer: It Might as Well be Spring [1945]; half of Rodgers and (Lorenz) Hart and Rodgers and (Oscar) Hammerstein: The Sound of Music, Love Me Tonight, My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Oklahoma!, State Fair, The King and I, You'll Never Walk Alone, Carousel, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening)
1905 - Ashley Montague (author, anthropologist)
1909 - Eric Ambler (writer: The Dark Frontier, Journey into Fear)
1914 - Lester Flatt (country music entertainer: guitar)(group: Flatt and Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms, Old Salty Dog Blues)
1923 - Pete (Walter) Candoli (musician: trumpet: Superman with a Horn)
1925 - George Morgan (singer: Candy Kisses, Rainbow in My Heart, Room Full of Roses, Crybaby Heart, I'm In Love Again; DJ: WSM, Nashville)
1926 - Mel Brooks (Kaminsky) (director, actor: Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, High Anxiety, The Producers; comedy writer: Show of Shows, Get Smart)
1930 - Pat (Noriyuki) Morita (actor: Happy Days, Karate Kid, Babes in Toyland, Thoroughly Modern Millie)
1936 - Cathy Carr (singer: Ivory Tower)
1937 - George Knudson (golfer)
1941 - Al Downing (baseball: pitcher)
1943 - Gary Veneruzzo (hockey)
1945 - David Knights (musician: bass player: group: Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale)
1946 - Gilda Radner (Emmy Award-winning comedienne, actress: Saturday Night Live [1977-78]; Haunted Honeymoon w/husband Gene Wilder) (SNL - Baba Wawa) Detroit
1948 - Kathy Bates (Academy Award-winning actress: Misery [1990]; Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss)
1949 - Clarence Davis (football: Oakland Raiders running back: Super Bowl XI)
1949 - Don Baylor (baseball: manager: Colorado Rockies; California Angels MVP [1979])
1949 - Don Nottingham (football: Miami Dolphins running back: Super Bowl VIII)
1950 - Chris Speir (baseball)
1960 - John Cusack (actor: Say Anything, Money for Nothing, The Player, True Colors)
1960 - John Elway (football: Denver Broncos quarterback: Super Bowl XXI, XXII, XXIV)
1960 - Mary Stuart Masterson (actress: Radioland Murders, Funny about Love, Fried Green Tomatoes)
1969 - Danielle Briesbois, Archie Bunker's girl (actress: All in the Family, Knots Landing, Annie, Mom, the Wolfman and Me)
Famous deaths
1836 - The fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died in Montpelier, Va.
1889 - Maria Mitchell - 1st American woman astronomer - dies at 71
1914 - In a event that is widely regarded as sparking the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian-Hungarian empire, was shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
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