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Events on the 28th of June in history

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28 Jun 0767 St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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28 Jun 1098 Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosull.
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28 Jun 1119 Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeat French Crusaders
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28 Jun 1245 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens
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28 Jun 1360 Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
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28 Jun 1461 Edward IV is crowned King of England.
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28 Jun 1485 Gent / Brugge / Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Neth
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28 Jun 1519 King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German Emperor Charles V
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28 Jun 1519 Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
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28 Jun 1524 Duke van Bourbon occupies Province
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28 Jun 1575 Spanish troops conquer Buren
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28 Jun 1583 Duke French van Valois returns to France
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28 Jun 1593 Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg
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28 Jun 1635 Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
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28 Jun 1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in the Caribbean
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28 Jun 1651 The Battle of Beresteczko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
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28 Jun 1675 Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden
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28 Jun 1709 Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
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28 Jun 1745 War of the Austrian Succession: A New England colonial army captures Louisbourg, New France, after a forty-seven-day siege (New Style).
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28 Jun 1748 Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed
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28 Jun 1762 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston)
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28 Jun 1762 Russian tsarina Catharina II grabs power
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28 Jun 1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
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28 Jun 1776 The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
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28 Jun 1776 Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
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28 Jun 1776 Charleston, SC repulses British sea attack
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28 Jun 1778 Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey (Gen Washington beats Clinton)
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28 Jun 1778 Mary Ludwig Hayes "Molly Pitcher" aids American patriots
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28 Jun 1778 The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
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28 Jun 1778 Battle of Monmouth, NJ
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28 Jun 1807 British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina
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28 Jun 1807 Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
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28 Jun 1820 Tomato is proven nonpoisonous
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28 Jun 1832 Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns
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28 Jun 1838 Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
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28 Jun 1838 Britain's Queen Victoria crowned in Westminster Abbey
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28 Jun 1841 The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier
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28 Jun 1855 Sigma Chi Fraternity was founded in North America.
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28 Jun 1859 The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
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28 Jun 1859 1st dog show held (Newcastle-on-Tyne, England)
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28 Jun 1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest
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28 Jun 1862 Day 4 of the 7 Days-Battle of Savage's Station
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28 Jun 1865 The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
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28 Jun 1869 Amsterdam typographer strike
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28 Jun 1874 Freedmen's Bank closes
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28 Jun 1880 The Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
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28 Jun 1881 Secret treaty between Austria and Serbia.
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28 Jun 1882 The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
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28 Jun 1886 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #259 Aletheia
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28 Jun 1887 Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0
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28 Jun 1892 Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
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28 Jun 1894 Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
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28 Jun 1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
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28 Jun 1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form Central American Union
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28 Jun 1895 El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
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28 Jun 1895 Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
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28 Jun 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.
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28 Jun 1902 US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million
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28 Jun 1902 The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
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28 Jun 1902 Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin
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28 Jun 1904 International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam
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28 Jun 1904 The SS Norge runs aground and sinks
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28 Jun 1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard the battleship "Potemkin"
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28 Jun 1907 Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey
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28 Jun 1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
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28 Jun 1911 Joseph Caillaux forms government in France
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28 Jun 1914 Austria invades Siberia (WWI)
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28 Jun 1914 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.
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28 Jun 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
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28 Jun 1917 Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam
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28 Jun 1917 Raggedy Ann doll invented
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28 Jun 1918 1st flight between Hawaiian Islands
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28 Jun 1919 Carl Mazes pitches a complete doubleheader against New York Yankees
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28 Jun 1919 Treaty of Versailles ending WWI signed in France
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28 Jun 1919 The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
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28 Jun 1919 Harry S Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence
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28 Jun 1921 Serbian King Alexander I proclaimed the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
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28 Jun 1922 The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
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28 Jun 1923 Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry for state visit to London
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28 Jun 1923 Dodgers lost 7-0 lead, as Philles score 8 in bottom of 9th
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28 Jun 1924 Tornado strikes Sandusky Ohio & Lorain Ohio, killing 93
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28 Jun 1926 Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
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28 Jun 1928 Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for President at Democratic Convention
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28 Jun 1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsucessful)
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28 Jun 1930 1st night game in Detroit at newly built Hamtramck Stadium as Negro League Detroit Stars take on Kansas City Monarchs
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28 Jun 1934 Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes)
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28 Jun 1935 FDR ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky
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28 Jun 1936 The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
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28 Jun 1938 Queen Victoria ascends to British throne
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28 Jun 1939 Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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28 Jun 1939 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)
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28 Jun 1939 Yanks hit 13 HRs, sweep A's 23-2 & 10-0
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28 Jun 1940 "Quiz Kids?" premieres on radio
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28 Jun 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
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28 Jun 1940 "Quiz Kids?" premiers on radio
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28 Jun 1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
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28 Jun 1941 German and Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev
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28 Jun 1941 German troops occupy Galicia Poland
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28 Jun 1942 World War II: Nazi Germany started its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue
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28 Jun 1942 Dumont TV network begins (WABD NY)
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28 Jun 1945 Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets
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28 Jun 1945 Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
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28 Jun 1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st President of Italy
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28 Jun 1946 Permanent radio play-by-play of Cleveland Indians games begins
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28 Jun 1947 "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) by Red Ingle with Jo Stafford hits #1
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28 Jun 1948 US / British airlift to West-Berlin begins
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28 Jun 1948 The Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia"; Yugoslavia is expelled from the Communist bloc.
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28 Jun 1948 Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
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28 Jun 1950 Korean War: Seoul is captured by North Korean troops.
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28 Jun 1950 Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers, argued to be between 100,000 and 200,000 are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
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28 Jun 1950 Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive.
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28 Jun 1950 Korean War: North Korean Army conducted Seoul National University Hospital Massacre.
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28 Jun 1950 North Korean forces capture Seoul, South Korea [or 01041951?]
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28 Jun 1951 "Amos 'n' Andy" premiers on CBS TV
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28 Jun 1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois
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28 Jun 1956 in Poznań, workers from HCP factory went to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
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28 Jun 1956 Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die
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28 Jun 1957 Frick overrules and names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron to team
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28 Jun 1958 Brazil becomes world soccer champ in Sweden
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28 Jun 1958 Nancy Ramey swims world record 100m (1:09.6)
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28 Jun 1959 Phils Wally Post is only outfielder to throw out 2 runners in an inning twice (Losing to Giants 6-0)
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28 Jun 1960 10.40" (26.42 cm) of rainfall, Dunmor, Kentucky (state 24-hour record)
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28 Jun 1961 Phils & SF set then record longest night game (5h11m) 7-7 15 inn tie
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28 Jun 1962 Thalidomide drug banned in the Netherlands
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28 Jun 1963 Belaunde Terry inaugurated as President of Peru
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28 Jun 1963 Khrushchev visits East-Berlin
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28 Jun 1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waldemar Golf Open
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28 Jun 1964 Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in New York by Malcolm X
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28 Jun 1964 Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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28 Jun 1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson
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28 Jun 1965 Princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg announce engagement
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28 Jun 1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2179 Platzeck
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28 Jun 1966 Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
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28 Jun 1967 Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
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28 Jun 1967 George Harrison is fined
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28 Jun 1968 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
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28 Jun 1969 Stonewall Riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
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28 Jun 1970 Mary Mills wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
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28 Jun 1971 Supreme Court (8-0) overturns draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali
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28 Jun 1971 Fillmore East closes
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28 Jun 1971 Phillies' Rick Wise hits 2 HRs & no-hits Reds
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28 Jun 1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3093
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28 Jun 1973 Black Sports Hall of Fame forms: Paul Robeson, Elgin Baylor, Jesse Owens, Jim Brown, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson elected
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28 Jun 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.
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28 Jun 1973 Lawsuit in Detroit challenges Little League's "no girls" rule
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28 Jun 1974 Wings release "Band on the Run" and"Zoo Gang" in the UK
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28 Jun 1974 Fall of earth & rocks kill 200. (Quebrada Blanca Canyon, Columbia)
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28 Jun 1974 Wings release "Band on the Run" & "Zoo Gang" in UK
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28 Jun 1975 David Bowie releases "Fame"
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28 Jun 1975 David Bowie releases "Fame"
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28 Jun 1975 Golfer Lee Trevino is struck by lightning at Western Open (Ill)
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28 Jun 1976 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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28 Jun 1976 Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda
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28 Jun 1976 The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
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28 Jun 1977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers
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28 Jun 1978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
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28 Jun 1978 The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
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28 Jun 1978 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of goodwill
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28 Jun 1979 OPEC raises oil prices 24%
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28 Jun 1980 New York City transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents
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28 Jun 1980 NYC transit fare rises from 50 to 60
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28 Jun 1981 "Piaf" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 165 performances
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28 Jun 1981 74 government officials die in attack in Iran
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28 Jun 1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
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28 Jun 1981 A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
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28 Jun 1982 Prince Chuck and Lady Di name their baby "William"
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28 Jun 1982 Prince Chuck & Lady Di name their baby "William"
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28 Jun 1983 Bridge section along I-95 in Greenwich, Ct collapsed kills 3
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28 Jun 1983 NASA launches Galaxy-A
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28 Jun 1985 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Texas
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28 Jun 1986 Irish population condemns divorce
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28 Jun 1986 Kenneth & Nellie Pike challenge Ala Dem runoff win by AG C Graddick
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28 Jun 1987 "Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances
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28 Jun 1987 Deb Richard wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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28 Jun 1987 For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
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28 Jun 1987 Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden)
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28 Jun 1987 E F Helin discovers asteroid #3680 Sasha
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28 Jun 1988 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton
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28 Jun 1989 On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
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28 Jun 1990 Emmy 17th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 11th time
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28 Jun 1990 17th annual Daytime Emmy Awards
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28 Jun 1992 "Chinese Coffee" opens at Circle in the Square Theater NYC for 18 performances
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28 Jun 1992 2 earthquakes, including 3rd strongest in US (7.4) rock - California
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28 Jun 1992 Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes President of Afghanistan
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28 Jun 1992 Italian government of Amato forms
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28 Jun 1992 LA Police commisioner Daryl Gates steps down
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28 Jun 1992 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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28 Jun 1992 US Dream Team beats Cuba in 1st exhibition basketball game, 133-57
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28 Jun 1992 The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.
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28 Jun 1993 Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught and most HRs by a catcher
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28 Jun 1993 Jacques Lemaire is named New Jersey Devils 8th Head Coach
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28 Jun 1993 NCRV shows last "Cheers" in Neth
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28 Jun 1994 New York Met Pitcher Dwight Gooden suspended for 60 days due to drug charges
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28 Jun 1994 Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
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28 Jun 1995 New Jersey Devils Stanley Cup Victory Party, admidst rumours they were moving to Nashville, goalie Chris Terreri holds up "Nashville? NO WAY!" sign
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28 Jun 1996 "Nutty Professor, " starring Eddie Murphy opens in theaters in the USA
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28 Jun 1997 "Master Class, " closes at Golden Theater NYC after 601 performances
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28 Jun 1997 "Steel Peer, " closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 76 performances
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28 Jun 1997 TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant
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28 Jun 1997 Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
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28 Jun 1998 Wins ShopRite LPGA Classic
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28 Jun 2001 Slobodan Milošević is deported to ICTY to stand trial.
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28 Jun 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.
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28 Jun 2009 Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran political crisis.
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