Today in History
June 28
Duke van Bourbon
Queen Victoria
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| St Paul I ends his reign as Catholic Pope | ||
| 1119 Battle of Sarmada - Emir Ilghazi defeat French Crusaders |
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| 1245 1st Council of Lyons (13th ecumenical council) opens | ||
| 1367 Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia was born | ||
| 1461 Edward IV crowned king of England | ||
| 1476 Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], inquisition/Pope (1555-59) was born | ||
| 1485 Gent/Brugge/Ieper recognize Maximilian of Austria as regent of Netherland | ||
| 1519 Charles I of Spain became Holy Roman Emperor and ruled until 1556 as Charles V. | ||
| 1524 Duke van Bourbon occupies Province | ||
| 1575 Spanish troops conquer Buren | ||
| 1577 Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision) was born | ||
| 1583 Duke French van Valois returns to France | ||
| 1593 Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg | ||
| 1629 The Peace of Alais ended the Huguenot revolt in France. | ||
| 1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean | ||
| 1675 Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden | Duke van Bourbon |
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| 1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession) was born | ||
| 1748 Riot after public execution in Amsterdam, 200+ killed | ||
| 1762 Russian tsarina Catharina II grabs power | ||
| 1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia | ||
| 1776 During the American Revolution, the British were defeated at the first Battle of Charleston; on the same day in 1778, the British thwarted an American attack at the Battle of Monmouth. | ||
| 1778 Battle of Monmouth, NJ (Gen Washington beats Clinton) | ||
| 1807 British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina | ||
| 1838 The coronation of Queen Victoria took place in Westminster Abbey, a year after she had ascended the throne. | ||
| 1861 Robert (O'Hara) Burke, the Irish-born Australian explorer who crossed Australia from south to north, died on the return journey | ||
| 1862 The siege of the Confederate city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, began when Union naval forces took up position off of the city. | ||
| 1867 Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934) was born | ||
| 1869 Amsterdam typographer strike | ||
| 1874 Freedmen's Bank closes | ||
| 1897 Marquis C de Bonchamps' expedition reaches Gore Ethiopia |
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| 1902 Congress authorizes Louisiana Purchase Expo $1 gold coin | ||
| 1902 US buys concession to build Panama canal from French for $40 million | ||
| 1904 International Anti-Military Cooperation (IAMV) forms in Amsterdam | ||
| 1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens | ||
| 1911 Joseph Caillaux forms govt in France | ||
| 1914 A Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife in Sarajevo; the incident was widely believed to have sparked World War I. | ||
| 1914 Austria invades Siberia (WW I) | ||
| 1917 Potato entrepreneurs begins in Amsterdam | ||
| 1919 Harry S Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence | ||
| 1919 The end of World War I was marked by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles between Germany and the Allies. | ||
| 1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful) | Queen Victoria |
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| 1935 President Roosevelt ordered a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky. | ||
| 1938 Queen Victoria ascends to British throne | ||
| 1940 Soviet troops occupied the Romanian regions of Bessarabia and Bucovina. | ||
| 1941 German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev | ||
| 1941 German troops occupy Galicia Poland | ||
| 1945 Polish Provisional Governament of National Unity set up by Soviets | ||
| 1946 Enrico de Nicola becomes 1st president of Italy | ||
| 1948 The Yugoslav Communist Party was expelled from COMINFORM at a meeting in Bucharest. It marked the formal breach in relations between Yugoslavia and the rest of the Communist bloc. | ||
| 1948 US/British airlift to West-Berlin begins | ||
| 1950 North Korean troops captured Seoul. | ||
| 1951 The TV show "Amos and Andy" premiered. | ||
| 1956 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago Ill | ||
| 1963 Belaunde Terry inaugurated as president of Peru | ||
| 1965 1st US ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by Pres Johnson | ||
| 1970 U.S. troops began their withdrawal from Cambodia. | ||
| 1976 1st woman was admitted to Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo | ||
| 1976 The Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles became an independent republic within the Commonwealth after 160 years of British rule. | ||
| 1976 Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda | ||
| 1977 Supreme Court allows Federal control of Nixon tapes papers | ||
| 1978 UNICEF chooses rock group Kansas as ambassadors of good willman claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected | ||
| 1981 74 government officials die in attack in Iran | ||
| 1981 Seventy-four people, including Chief Justice Ayatollah Beheshti, were killed in Iran by a bomb attack on the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party. | ||
| 1992 Burharnuddin Rabbani becomes president of Afghanistan | ||
| 1992 Two earthquakes, including the third strongest in the U.S. this century at 7.4 on the Richter scale, rocked southern California. | ||
| 1992 Italian governament of Amato forms | ||
| 1996 President Suleyman Demirel approved Welfare Party leader Necmettin Erbakan as Turkey's first Islamist prime minister in a coalition with conservative Tansu Ciller. |
C.H. OSTFELD INC.