WillDekkard
06-29-2010, 05:52 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- June 28th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
* 1389 The Ottomans defeat the Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
* 1519 Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1635 Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
* 1651 The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
* 1776 American Revolutionary War: Fort Moultrie is attacked during the Battle of Sullivan's Island; this event is commemorated in Carolina Day.
* 1776 American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
* 1778 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth is fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
* 1807 Second British invasion of the Rνo de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
* 1838 Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
* 1841 The Thιβtre de l'Acadιmie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
* 1859 The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
* 1865 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
* 1880 The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
* 1881 Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
* 1882 The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
* 1894 Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
* 1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
* 1896 An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
* 1902 The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
* 1904 The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
* 1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
* 1919 The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other side.
* 1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
* 1936 The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
* 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
* 1948 The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
* 1948 Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
* 1950 Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
* 1964 Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
* 1967 Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
* 1969 The Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
* 1973 Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
* 1976 The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
* 1978 The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
* 1981 A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
* 1983 The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
* 1990 Paperback Software International Ltd. is found liable by a U.S. court for copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
* 1992 The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
* 1994 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured.
* 1996 The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
* 1997 Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Holyfield's ear.
* 2004 Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
* 2005 War in Afghanistan: Three U.S. Navy SEALs and 16 American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed during Operation Red Wing, a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
* 2006 The Republic of Montenegro is admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
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- June 28th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
* 1389 The Ottomans defeat the Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe (see Vidovdan).
* 1519 Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1635 Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
* 1651 The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
* 1776 American Revolutionary War: Fort Moultrie is attacked during the Battle of Sullivan's Island; this event is commemorated in Carolina Day.
* 1776 American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
* 1778 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Monmouth is fought between the American Continental Army under George Washington and the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton.
* 1807 Second British invasion of the Rνo de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
* 1838 Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
* 1841 The Thιβtre de l'Acadιmie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
* 1859 The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
* 1865 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
* 1880 The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
* 1881 Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
* 1882 The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
* 1894 Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
* 1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
* 1896 An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston City, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
* 1902 The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
* 1904 The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
* 1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
* 1919 The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other side.
* 1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
* 1936 The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
* 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.
* 1948 The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
* 1948 Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
* 1950 Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
* 1964 Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
* 1967 Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
* 1969 The Stonewall riots begin in New York City.
* 1973 Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
* 1976 The Angolan court sentenced US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
* 1978 The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
* 1981 A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
* 1983 The Mianus River Bridge collapses over the Mianus River in Connecticut, killing 3 drivers in their vehicles.
* 1990 Paperback Software International Ltd. is found liable by a U.S. court for copyright violation for copying the appearance and menu system of Lotus 1-2-3 in its competing spreadsheet program.
* 1992 The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
* 1994 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; 7 persons are killed, 660 injured.
* 1996 The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
* 1997 Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield II Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Holyfield's ear.
* 2004 Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
* 2005 War in Afghanistan: Three U.S. Navy SEALs and 16 American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed during Operation Red Wing, a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar province, Afghanistan.
* 2006 The Republic of Montenegro is admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution 60/264.
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