Today is Thursday, June 28, the 179th day of 2007. There are 186 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist — the event that triggered World War I.
On this date:
1491, England's King Henry VIII was born at Greenwich.
1675 Frederick William of Brandenburg crushes the Swedes.
1709 Russians defeat the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava.
1776 Colonists repulse a British sea attack on Charleston, South Carolina.
1778, the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth took place in New Jersey; it was from this battle that the legend of "Molly Pitcher" arose, although her actual existence is a matter of historical debate.
1836, the fourth president of the United States, James Madison, died in Montpelier, Va.
1838, Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1839 Cinque and other Africans are kidnapped and sold into slavery in Cuba.
1862 Fighting continues between Union and Confederate forces during the Seven Days' campaign.
1863 General Meade replaces General Hooker three days before the Battle of Gettysburg.
1874 The Freedmen's Bank, created to assist former slaves in the United States, closes. Customers of the bank lose $3 million.
1884 Congress declares Labor Day a legal holiday.
1894 The U.S. Congress made Labor Day a U.S. national holiday.
1902 Congress passes the Spooner bill, authorizing a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
1911 Samuel J. Battle becomes the first African-American policeman in New York City.
1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated at Sarajevo, Serbia.
1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.
1921 A coal strike in Britain is settled after three months.
1928 "West End Blues" recorded
1930 More than 1,000 communists are routed during an assault on the British consulate in London.
1938 Congress creates the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to insure construction loans.
1939, Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service.
1940 The "Quiz Kids" was heard on NBC radio for the first time.
1942 German troops launch an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.
1944, the Republican national convention in Chicago nominated New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for president and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker for vice president.
1945 General Douglas MacArthur announces the end of Japanese resistance in the Philippines.
1949 The last U.S. combat troops are called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.
1950, North Korean forces captured Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
1954 French troops begin to pull out of Vietnam's Tonkin province.
1964 Malcolm X founds the Organization for Afro-American Unity to seek independence for blacks in the Western Hemisphere.
1967 14 people are shot during race riots in Buffalo, New York.
1970 Muhammed Ali [Cassius Clay] stands before the Supreme Court regarding his refusal of induction into the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
1971 The Supreme Court overturns the draft evasion conviction of Muhammad Ali.
1972 Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to Vietnam.
1976 The first women enter the U.S. Air Force Academy.
1978, the Supreme Court ordered the University of California-Davis Medical School to admit Allan Bakke, a white man who argued he'd been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
1996, the Citadel voted to admit women, ending a 153-year-old men-only policy at the South Carolina military school.
1997 Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield's ear after three rounds of their WBA heavyweight title fight in Las Vegas, NV.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court declared that a Nebraska law that outlawed "partial birth abortions" was unconstitutional. About 30 U.S. states had similar laws at the time of the ruling.
2000 The European Commission announced that they had blocked the planned merger between the U.S. companies WorldCom Inc. and Sprint due to competition concerns.
2001 Slobodan Milosevic was taken into custody and was handed over to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. The indictment charged Milosevic and four other senior officials, with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war in Kosovo.
Ten years ago:
President Clinton, unable to meet his own July 4 deadline for campaign finance reform, blamed the inaction on Congress in his weekly radio address.
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.
Five years ago:
WorldCom Inc. began laying off 17,000 employees worldwide after disclosing accounting irregularities that later forced it into bankruptcy protection.
Xerox Corp. announced it had improperly reported $1.9 billion in revenue over the previous five years and would restate those financial results.
One year ago:
Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks penetrated the Gaza Strip to pressure Islamic militants into releasing a kidnapped soldier.
"Miracle on Ice" coach Herb Brooks and Patrick Roy, the NHL's winningest goaltender, were among four honorees elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Star Jones Reynolds was booted from "The View," one day after surprising ABC and Barbara Walters by saying on the air that she wouldn't be returning to the daytime talk show in the fall.
Today's Birthdays:
1491 Henry VIII, King of England (1509-1547), founder of the Church of England.
1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter.
1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, French social philosopher (The Social Contract).
1867 Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright (Six Characters in Search of an Author).
1873 Alexis Carrel, Nobel Prize-winning French surgeon and biologist.
1891 Esther Forbes, author (Johnny Tremain).
1902 Richard Rodgers, American composer.
1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
1909 Eric Ambler, British mystery writer (The Dark Frontier, Uncommon Danger).
Blues singer-musician David "Honeyboy" Edwards is 92.
Comedian-movie director Mel Brooks is 81.
Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., is 73.
Former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta is 69.
Rock musician Dave Knights (Procul Harum) is 62.
Actor Bruce Davison is 61.
Actress Kathy Bates is 59.
Actress Alice Krige is 53.
Football Hall of Famer John Elway is 47.
Record company chief executive Tony Mercedes is 45.
Actress Jessica Hecht is 42.
Rock musician Saul Davies (James) is 42.
Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is 41.
Actor John Cusack is 41.
Actor Gil Bellows is 40.
Actress-singer Danielle Brisebois is 38.
Jazz musician Jimmy Sommers is 38.
Actress Tichina Arnold is 36.
Actor Alessandro Nivola is 35.
Rock musician Tim Nordwind (OK Go) is 31.
Country singer Kellie Pickler is 21.
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