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On this Day ~ June 28th

767 St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1245 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens

1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean

1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia

1776 Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack

1778 Battle of Monmouth, NJ

1778 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots

1820 Tomato is proven nonpoisonous

1838 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey

1859 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)

1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest

1862 Day 4 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station

1874 Freedmen's Bank closes

1886 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #259 Aletheia

1887 Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0

1892 Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories

1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday

1902 Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin

1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship "Potemkin"

1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens

1914 Assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria, Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, in Sarajevo by a Serbian Nationalist,Gavrilo Princip. This incident precipitated a war with Serbia, eventually starting WW1

1918 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands

1919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete double-header against Yanks

1919 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence

1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WW I signed

1923 Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Philles score 8 in bottom of 9th

1924 Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93

1928 Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention

1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsucessful)

1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)

1939 Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0

1940 "Quiz Kids?" premiers on radio

1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union

1942 Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)

1945 Polish Provisional Govt of National Unity set up by Soviets

1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st pres of Italy

1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea [or 01041951?]

1951 "Amos 'n' Andy" premiers on CBS TV

1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill

1956 Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die

1960 26.42 cm (10.40") of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)

1961 Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie

1964 Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in NY by Malcolm X

1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson

1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2179 Platzeck

1967 George Harrison is fined œ6 for speeding

1968 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers

1971 Fillmore East closes

1971 Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds

1971 Supreme Court overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali

1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3093

1974 Fall of earth & rocks kill 200. (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Columbia)

1974 Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK

1975 David Bowie releases "Fame"

1975 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)

1977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers

1980 NYC transit fare rises from 50 to 60

1982 Prince Charles and Princess Diana name their baby "William"

1983 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3

1983 NASA launches Galaxy-A

1985 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx

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 Rhoden)
1987 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3680 Sasha

1988 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton

1990 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards