28 June History


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  • 1635    -    The French colony of Guadeloupe is established in the Caribbean.
  • 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    -    Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carries water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth.
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  • 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.
  • 1902    -    Congress passes the Spooner bill, authorizing a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
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  • 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    -    Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles under protest.
  • 1921    -    A coal strike in Britain is settled after three months.
  • 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.
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  • 1942    -    German troops launch an offensive to seize Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus and the city of Stalingrad.
  • 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    -    General Douglas MacArthur arrives in South Korea as Seoul falls to the North.
  • 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.

  • 28 June 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).
  • 1926    -    Mel Brooks, comedian, actor, and director (The Producers, Blazing Saddles).
  • 1947    -    Mark Helprin, novelist (Winter's Tale).